Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
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DOI：
10.1007/s13280-011-0184-y
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发表时间：
2011-11-01
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影响因子：
6.5
通讯作者：
Westley, Frances
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作者：
Folke, Carl;Jansson, Asa;Westley, Frances
人类已成为生物圈运作的主要力量，对地球系统产生重大影响，对社会生态复原力提出挑战。这一新形势要求从根本上转变视角、世界观和机构。人类发展和进步必须重新与生物圈的能力和维持基本生态系统服务联系起来。治理方面的挑战包括一个高度相互关联和更快的世界，社会生态相互作用的级联和地球边界，这些都造成了脆弱性，但也为社会生态变化和转型提供了机会。临界点和阈值突出了理解和管理复原力的重要性。新的灵活治理模式正在出现。一个核心挑战是将这些努力与社会发展不断变化的先决条件重新联系起来，作为地球系统的积极管理者。我们建议，千年发展目标需要在这样一个地球管理的背景下重新制定，同时呼吁就全球可持续性达成一项新的社会契约。人类与地球及其边界的关系正在发生的思想转变为社会发展提供了令人兴奋的机会，与生物圈合作，这是人类的全球可持续发展议程。
Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social-ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social-ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social-ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere-a global sustainability agenda for humanity.