Paradigm Shifts | FONDAPOL - a second paper by Josef Konvitz

Josef Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL International Observatory, has produced a second paper for FONDAPOL [1], the French Foundation for Policy Innovation. "Paradigm Shifts [2]" is about how and why they are as difficult as they are, at times, necessary. And ours may be such a time.

Konvitz explains why spatial change is tearing apart the dominant paradigm of the 20th century which has put economic well-being and security first.

Maybe the environment and health will be at the centre of the next paradigm, but we won't really know for another ten years - or more.

The implications for education are clear: give people the skills and vision to cope with the paradigm we have and the one we do not yet have. Resilience is part of the equation; so is being robust.