Sustainability History Project

I’ve recently been alerted to the existence of an online journal devoted to issues related to sustainability, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development.

Mother Pelican is a product of The Pelican Web, whose mission it is “to collect, organize, and disseminate knowledge on sustainable development, with especial focus on human development; and to publish the monthly, free subscription, open access Mother Pelican, a journal on sustainable human development.”

The Pelican Web website contains links to resources and also provides an outline of the organization’s research agenda:

The current research agenda is to examine all the significant dimensions of sustainable development in order to integrate the resulting multi-dimensional knowledge and make it available in a form suitable for use by sustainable development groups. The following modes of research are being used:
** Review and analysis of sustainable development concepts and trends.

** Review and analysis of sustainable development news and emerging research.

** Review and analysis of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) projects and trends.

** Review and analysis of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) projects and trends.

** Review and analysis of human behavior in response to economic growth-human development trade offs.

** Use of system dynamics (causal-loop diagrams and computer simulation) to analyze sustainable development scenarios.

** Use of Girardian analysis (mimetic theory) to analyze scapegoating behavior.

** Use of inter-dependency matrices (NxN) to understand precedence relations.

** Sacred scriptures from various religious traditions are used as a point of reference.

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