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Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration: The Anthropocene and its analytic challenges for social-ecological transformations
The Anthropocene Review ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-25 , DOI: 10.1177/2053019619895034
Christoph Görg 1 , Christina Plank 1, 2 , Dominik Wiedenhofer 1 , Andreas Mayer 1 , Melanie Pichler 1 , Anke Schaffartzik 1, 3 , Fridolin Krausmann 1
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Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical approach to capitalist development. We argue that such an interdisciplinary approach can help to better understand the Great Acceleration of production and consumption and the related surge in global resource flows. The observation of such an acceleration in the physical growth of societies, in turn, is perceived as the most convincing argument to explain fundamental shifts in the state and functioning of the Earth system, the Anthropocene. Our approach emphasizes that the Great Acceleration was not homogeneous, neither in space nor in time. Instead, spatial varieties and different historical trajectories must be considered which allow for the differentiation of two phases of accelerated resource use, taking place in different world regions. In this article, we propose an integrated research framework for the study of the Great Acceleration, illustrate the insights to which its application leads and discuss the political relevance of the Anthropocene for further research on social-ecological transformations.

中文翻译:

审视大加速度:人类世及其对社会生态转型的分析挑战

尽管在过去的几年中取得了长足的进步,但关于人类世的研究仍然至少面临两个挑战:(1)整合自然科学,社会科学和文化科学的不同方法,以及(2)阐明该概念的政治意义。为了应对这些挑战,我们提出了一种来自社会生态学和政治经济学的跨学科方法,该方法将社会代谢研究与资本主义发展的历史方法相结合。我们认为,这种跨学科的方法可以帮助更好地理解生产和消费的大加速以及相关的全球资源流动的激增。反过来,观察到这样的社会加速发展,人们认为这是解释人类始新世的状态和功能发生根本变化的最有说服力的论据。我们的方法强调,无论是在时间上还是空间上,大加速都是不统一的。相反,必须考虑空间变化和不同的历史轨迹,以区分在世界不同地区发生的加速资源使用的两个阶段。在本文中,我们提出了一个关于大加速研究的综合研究框架,阐明了其应用所带来的见解,并讨论了人类世对进一步研究社会生态转型的政治意义。相反,必须考虑空间变化和不同的历史轨迹,以区分在世界不同地区发生的加速资源使用的两个阶段。在本文中,我们提出了一个关于大加速研究的综合研究框架,阐明了其应用所带来的见解,并讨论了人类世对进一步研究社会生态转型的政治意义。相反,必须考虑空间的多样性和不同的历史轨迹,以便区分在世界不同地区发生的加速资源使用的两个阶段。在本文中,我们提出了一个关于大加速研究的综合研究框架,阐明了其应用所带来的见解,并讨论了人类世对进一步研究社会生态转型的政治意义。
更新日期:2019-12-25
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