In his 1993 essay ‘The temporality of the landscape’, Tim Ingold argued that landscape develops through processes of temporality, that is time as it emerges in the unfolding of life through action. This association between temporality and landscape was expressed by the term ‘taskscape’. In our introduction to this section, we return to the concept of taskscape to assess its usefulness in light of a number of developments in the understanding of human–environment relations. These include the changing conceptualisation of ‘landscape’ and the emergence of new approaches for understanding relations across species. We explain the ways that the three authors in this section use taskscape to think through political tensions and to explore how landscapes are achieved through inter‐relating actions of humans and other beings. We conclude by emphasising the heuristic value of taskscape as a means of thinking through the implications of the Anthropocene. Both taskscape and Anthropocene are concepts that draw together human history and the shaping of the world and, as such, the taskscape offers a novel means to explore and understand the dynamics of Anthropocene environmental relations.

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探索任务场景：介绍

在他 1993 年的文章“景观的时间性”中，蒂姆·英戈尔德认为，景观是通过时间性过程发展起来的，也就是通过行动在生活的展开中出现的时间。时间性和景观之间的这种关联由术语“任务景观”表达。在我们对本节的介绍中，我们回到任务景观的概念，以根据对人类与环境关系的理解的一些发展来评估它的有用性。这些包括不断变化的“景观”概念和理解跨物种关系的新方法的出现。我们解释了本节中的三位作者如何使用 taskscape 来思考政治紧张局势，并探索如何通过人类和其他生物的相互关联的行动来实现景观。最后，我们强调 taskscape 的启发式价值作为思考人类世影响的一种手段。taskscape 和 Anthropocene 都是将人类历史和世界的塑造联系在一起的概念，因此，taskscape 提供了一种探索和理解人类世环境关系动态的新方法。