Mind the sustainability gap
Mind the sustainability gap
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DOI：
10.1016/j.tree.2007.08.016
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Wade, Alan
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作者：
Fischer, Joern;Manning, Adrian D.;Wade, Alan
尽管为实现可持续性付出了越来越多的努力，但气候变化和生物多样性丧失等关键的全球生物物理指标继续恶化而不是改善。可持续发展的持续失败使人们对当前研究和政策的重点产生了疑问。我们推荐两种取得进展的策略。首先，可持续性必须被概念化为一个考虑因素的层次结构，地球的生物物理极限设定了必须实现社会和经济目标的最终界限。其次，跨学科研究项目必须面对现代消费社会面临的关键规范问题。人文学科应该在此类项目中发挥关键作用。在这些战略的帮助下，必须制定并不懈努力实现能够真实反映地球生命支持系统的生物物理极限的雄心勃勃的目标。
Despite increasing efforts to reach sustainability, key global biophysical indicators such as climate change and biodiversity loss continue to deteriorate rather than improve. Ongoing failure to move towards sustainability calls into question the focus of current research and policy. We recommend two strategies for progress. First, sustainability must be conceptualized as a hierarchy of considerations, with the biophysical limits of the Earth setting the ultimate boundaries within which social and economic goals must be achieved. Second, transdisciplinary research programs must confront key normative questions facing modern consumer societies. The humanities should have a key role in such programs. Assisted by these strategies, ambitious targets that realistically reflect the biophysical limits of the life-support system of the Earth must be set and relentlessly worked towards.