Changing the intellectual climate
Changing the intellectual climate
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DOI：
10.1038/nclimate2339
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
30.7
通讯作者：
Wynne, Brian
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作者：
Castree, Noel;Adams, William M.;Wynne, Brian
在全球环境变化科学领域，现在有很多人呼吁获得基础更广泛、更综合、更有用的知识。它们证明了许多科学家希望帮助人类面对自身行为的重大生物物理影响。但同时也暴露出社会科学观念的局限性，对人文学科的忽视。因此，在全球环境变化所构成的挑战在规模、规模和范围上都在增加的时候，他们赞同一种发育不良的“人的方面”的概念。在这里，我们提出了一个更丰富的概念，更广泛的智力参与的前提下，并确定其实际履行的一些先决条件。我们建议，跨学科对话应产生对地球现在和未来的多元表述，反映不同的人类价值观和愿望。反过来，这也可以确保公众和决策者在考虑全球环境变化所引起的深刻问题时，不会对什么是可能的和可取的抱有过于狭隘的概念。
Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global environmental change science. They evidence many scientists' desire to help humanity confront the momentous biophysical implications of its own actions. But they also reveal a limited conception of social science and virtually ignore the humanities. They thereby endorse a stunted conception of 'human dimensions' at a time when the challenges posed by global environmental change are increasing in magnitude, scale and scope. Here, we make the case for a richer conception predicated on broader intellectual engagement and identify some preconditions for its practical fulfilment. Interdisciplinary dialogue, we suggest, should engender plural representations of Earth's present and future that are reflective of divergent human values and aspirations. In turn, this might insure publics and decision-makers against overly narrow conceptions of what is possible and desirable as they consider the profound questions raised by global environmental change.