How do we know we have global environmental problems? Science and the globalization of environmental discourse
How do we know we have global environmental problems? Science and the globalization of environmental discourse
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我们如何知道我们存在全球环境问题？
DOI：
10.1016/0016-7185(92)90051-5
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发表时间：
1992
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
F. Buttel
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作者：
P. Taylor;F. Buttel
科学在形成所谓的环境问题方面发挥着核心作用。最近，行星科学和环境行动主义成功地促进了对全球环境问题的认识和讨论，这一点就很明显。我们提出了关于环境科学与政治之间特殊关系的三个命题：（1）在科学的制定中，而不仅仅是在其应用中，某些行动方针比其他行动方针更容易促进;（2）在全球环境话语中，社会行动的道德和技术官僚观点享有特权;（3）全球环境变化作为科学和运动的意识形态，容易受到解构主义的压力。这些分歧来自不同的国家和国家内不同的社会群体，它们在造成和减轻环境问题方面有着不同的利益。我们通过重建20世纪70年代初的增长极限研究来发展这些命题，扩展目前对气候变化对人类/社会影响的研究，并审查当前反对全球和政治环境问题的来源。
Science has a central role in shaping what count as environmental problems. This has been evident most recently in the success of planetary science and environmental activism in stimulating awareness and discussion of global environmental problems. We advance three propositions about the special relationship between environmental science and politics: (1) in the formulation of science, not just in its application, certain courses of action are facilitated over others; (2) in global environmental discourse, moral and technocratic views of social action have been privileged; and (3) global environmental change, as science and movement ideology, is vulnerable to deconstructive pressures. These stem from different nations and differentiated social groups within nations having different interests in causing and alleviating environmental problems. We develop these propositions through a reconstruction ofThe Limits to Growthstudy of the early 1970s, make extensions to current studies of the human/social impacts of climate change, and review current sources of opposition to global and political formulations of environmental issues.