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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene
T2 - Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research
AU - Palsson, Gisli
AU - Szerszynski, Bronislaw
AU - Sörlin, Sverker
AU - Marks, John
AU - Avril, Bernard
AU - Crumley, Carole
AU - Hackmann, Heide
AU - Holm, Poul
AU - Ingram, John
AU - Pardo Buendía, Mercedes
AU - Weehuizen, Rifka
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - There is growing recognition that humans are faced with a critical and narrowing window of opportunity to halt or reverse some of the key indicators involved in the environmental crisis. Given human activities’ scale and impact, as well as the overly narrow perspectives of environmental research’s dominant natural sciences, a major effort is necessary to place the perspectives and insights of the humanities’ and social sciences’ perspectives and insights at the forefront. Such effort will require developing integrated approaches, projects, and institutions that truly do so. This article’s goal is to help mobilize the social sciences and the humanities on the topic of sustainability transitions, but also call for a meaningful research agenda to acknowledge the profound implications of the advent of the Anthropocene epoch. We formulate the need for an innovative research agenda based on a careful consideration of the changing human condition as linked to global environmental change. The humanities and social sciences will need to change and adapt to this pressing, historic task.
AB - There is growing recognition that humans are faced with a critical and narrowing window of opportunity to halt or reverse some of the key indicators involved in the environmental crisis. Given human activities’ scale and impact, as well as the overly narrow perspectives of environmental research’s dominant natural sciences, a major effort is necessary to place the perspectives and insights of the humanities’ and social sciences’ perspectives and insights at the forefront. Such effort will require developing integrated approaches, projects, and institutions that truly do so. This article’s goal is to help mobilize the social sciences and the humanities on the topic of sustainability transitions, but also call for a meaningful research agenda to acknowledge the profound implications of the advent of the Anthropocene epoch. We formulate the need for an innovative research agenda based on a careful consideration of the changing human condition as linked to global environmental change. The humanities and social sciences will need to change and adapt to this pressing, historic task.
KW - Anthropocene societies
KW - Earth system
KW - Environmental humanities
KW - Environmental social sciences
KW - Transdisciplinarity
KW - Global environmental change
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.004
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 3
EP - 13
JO - Environmental Science and Policy
JF - Environmental Science and Policy
SN - 1462-9011
ER -