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an urgent need to change the mind-set within faculty, science administrators and
students to accept and promote such system science approaches. ESSReS has only
been partially successful in breaking these barriers and mind-set between scienti

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fields. For example the computer scientist needs to understand that not only
computer algorithms are of interest but also processes, processes interactions and
relationships between parameters are critical for climate science.
It is clear that ESS is the way forward and ESSReS was one of the rst steps,

especially in higher education landscape in Germany. It is necessary to continue this
initiative, as it is the way forward towards a sustainable and health planet.

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