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- Sörlin, Sverker, et al.
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Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ecology & Society. - 1708-3087. ; 16:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many contemporary societal challenges manifest themselves in the domain of human–environment interactions.There is a growing recognition that responses to these challenges formulated within current disciplinary boundaries, in isolationfrom their wider contexts, cannot adequately address them. Here, we outline the need for an integrated, transdisciplinary synthesisthat allows for a holistic approach, and, above all, a much longer time perspective. We outline both the need for and thefundamental characteristics of what we call “integrated history.” This approach promises to yield new understandings of therelationship between the past, present, and possible futures of our integrated human–environment system. We recommend aunique new focus of our historical efforts on the future, rather than the past, concentrated on learning about future possibilitiesfrom history. A growing worldwide community of transdisciplinary scholars is forming around building this Integrated Historyand future of People on Earth (IHOPE). Building integrated models of past human societies and their interactions with theirenvironments yields new insights into those interactions and can help to create a more sustainable and desirable future. Theactivity has become a major focus within the global change community.
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- Costanza, Robert, et al.
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Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE)
- 2012
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Ingår i: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-3435 .- 1877-3443. ; 4:1, s. 106-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE) initiative is a global network of researchers and research projects with its International Program Office (IPO) now based at the Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC), Uppsala University, Arizona State University, Portland State University, and the Australian National University. Research linked to IHOPE demonstrates that Earth system changes in the past have been strongly associated with changes in the coupled human-environment system. IHOPE supports integrating knowledge and resources from the biophysical and the social sciences and the humanities to address analytical and interpretive issues associated with coupled human-earth system dynamics. This integration of human history and Earth system history is a timely and important task. Until recently, however, there have been few attempts at such integration. IHOPE will create frameworks that can be used to help achieve this integration. The overarching goal is to produce a rich understanding of the relationships between environmental and human processes over the past millennia. HOPE recognizes that one major challenge for reaching this goal is developing 'workable' terminology that can be accepted by scholars of all disciplines. The specific objectives for IHOPE are to identify slow and rapidly moving features of complex social-ecological systems, on local to continental spatial scales, which induce resilience, stress, or collapse in linked systems of humans in nature. These objectives will be reached by exploring innovative ways of conducting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary science, including theory, case studies, and integrated modeling. Examples of projects underway to implement this initiative are briefly discussed.
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