Today’s Research Demonstrates A Whole-Of-Life Approach

Abstract

Today, more than ever, Research is an essential element of our global environment. The recent years have created a period of change and challenge to all, and an environment for effective research to be undertaken to investigate opportunities and challenge the norms. Today the terms of Sustainability, Climate Change, the impacts on social, environmental and economic factors are widely used but often misunderstood. The factors affecting the past few years have identified many important items that may not have been fully addressed or considered in previous research, but now are identified as ESSENTIAL.

 Today, Research needs not only to be informative, but also to identify future impacts as well as recognizing what has happened in the field before. Research now needs to a “360 degree” investigation. Its effect on Sustainability, including Global climate and society have now open the opportunity for meaningful research to be undertaken recognizing Past, Present and Future issues, in other words, “THE LIFE CYCLE of the RESEARCH”. Research must now understand and appreciate the potential effects and impacts of its findings across a range of environments and societies. The Global Village is linked and impacts in one region will affect others across the Globe. Now is the time for “Research” to recognize its “Life Cycle”, which will in turn allow for greater recognition of the Value of Research to our Global Village.