Progressing a Sustainable-world: A Case study of the South Australian Government
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper discusses a component of a current research project that is concerned with what it means for humanity to live sustainably, that is, for there to be a sustainable-world, and how this might be achieved. Specifically, the paper presents the findings of a case study of the South Australian Government's (SAG's) sustainable-world approach. Of the two main sustainable-world approaches evident in the literature – the Reformist approach, which is consistent with mainstream sustainable-development, and the Transformational approach – the SAG's policies, plans, and goals are shown to be, for the most, consistent with Reformism. Two main exceptions are noted, namely the SAG's population and defence industry strategies, both of which are shown to be challenging to reconcile with either the Reformist or Transformational approaches. The findings also show that, from an Ecological-Footprint perspective, the South Australian community is not living sustainably within the global context. Despite the SAG's claims of sustainability leadership, its Ecological-Footprint goal will, even if achieved, see the South Australian community continue this unsustainable way of life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".