Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future
Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future
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DOI：
10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.11
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Syvitski, James
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作者：
DeFries, Ruth S.;Ellis, Erle C.;Syvitski, James
全球变化研究界需要更新其与社会的社会契约，超越对生物物理限制的关注，转向以解决方案为导向的研究，以提供通向可持续未来的现实的、具体背景的路径。对地球机遇的关注是基于这样一个前提，即社会适应变化，并在历史上实施了解决方案--例如，改善分水岭、改善粮食安全和减少有害的大气排放。实现可持续未来的艰巨的社会和生物物理挑战要求全球变化研究界努力在多个治理尺度上为可行的解决办法提供基础。全球变化研究必须重新定位，不再侧重于从生物物理学角度对人类对地球系统的负面影响进行全球范围的分析，而是考虑从家庭到全球的决策者的需求。
The global change research community needs to renew its social contract with society by moving beyond a focus on biophysical limits and toward solution-oriented research to provide realistic, context-specific pathways to a sustainable future. A focus On planetary opportunities is based on the premise that societies adapt to change and have historically implemented solutions-for example, to prow: watersheds, improve food security, and reduce harmful atmospheric emissions. Daunting social and biophysical challenges for achieving a sustainable future demand that the global change research community work to provide underpinnings for workable solutions at multiple scales of governance. Global change research must reorient itself from a focus on biophysically oriented, global-scale analysis of humanity's negative impact on the Earth system to consider the needs of decision makers from household to global scales.