Toward a Sustainable Future Earth
Challenges for a Research Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myanna Lahsen (0000-0001-5225-2048, Earth System Science Center, The Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 876-898 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243916639728 |
| OpenAlex | W2344786116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 48 |
Future Earth is an evolving international research program and platform for engagement aiming to support transitions toward sustainability. This article discusses processes that led to Future Earth, highlighting its intellectual emergence. I describe how Future Earth has increased space for contributions from the social sciences and humanities despite powerful, long-standing preferences for bio-geophysical research in global environmental research communities. I argue that such preferences nevertheless are deeply embedded in scientific institutions that continue to shape environmental science agendas and, as such, constitute a formidable obstacle that needs to be recognized and countered to bolster efforts at effective societal transformation in the face of sustainability challenges. The analysis draws on two decades of observant participation in environmental research communities in the United States, Europe, Brazil, and elsewhere, including participation in the visioning process that led to Future Earth
Earth system science · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Political science · Social science · Social sustainability · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainability science · Sustainable development · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Engineering · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life · Ecology
Coupling Evaluation and Spatial–Temporal Evolution of Land Ecosystem Services and Economic–Social Development in a City Group
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability
Transforming environmental research to avoid tragedy
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2019
Contributions and perspectives from geography to the study of climate
Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability
From network to meshwork
(Anti)-boundary work in global environmental change research and assessment
Science for change
Producing Knowledge to Raise Rural Living Standards
Media Reform as Transformation Tool
Should AI be Designed to Save Us From Ourselves
A critical political ecology of human dimensions of climate change
Climate change reception studies in anthropology
Ecologies of co-production in the Anthropocene
The Geopolitics of Climate Knowledge Mobilization
Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene
Reason in a Dark Time
Dynamic Sustainabilities
Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future
Physical and economic bias in climate change research
Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs
The Politics Of Green Transformations
Risk Communication on Climate
Earth System Science for Global Sustainability
A safe operating space for humanity
New rules of sociological method
Understanding Global Environmental Politics
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
The lessons learned from shifting from global-change research programmes to transdisciplinary sustainability science
A vision for human well-being
The elephant in the room
Institutions, climate change and cultural theory
Technologies of Humility
Science for the post-normal age
Institutions for the Anthropocene
Global environmental change II
Reconceptualizing the 'Anthropos' in the Anthropocene
Selective Ignorance and Agricultural Research
Beyond the ABC
Anatomy of Dissent
Using the Master's Tools? Neoliberal Conservation and the Evasion of Inequality
The (non-)politics of managing low carbon socio-technical transitions
Governance for Sustainability
A New Climate for Society
Apocalypse Forever
Uncomfortable knowledge
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |