Rendering global change problematic: the constitutive effects of Earth System research in the IGBP and the IHDP

Uhrqvist, Ola; Lövbrand, Eva

doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.835964

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“…Moreover, increasing numbers of mainstream studies have emphasized the influence of human activities on the global environment (Osenberg & Schmitt, ; Vitousek, Mooney, Lubchenco, & Melilloet, ; Cook et al, ; Goudie, ). In 1995, the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) identified land use/cover change (LUCC) as an essential scientific research project, which made LUCC one of the research topics at the frontier of global change research (Anderson, ; Liu et al, ; Uhrqvist & Lövbrand, ; Liu, Huang, & Zhang, ; Chang, Hou, Li, Zhang, & Chen, ).…”

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Spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization: A case study in Central China

Cao

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Wang

2019

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Much effort has been applied to the study of land use multi‐objective optimization. However, most of these studies have focused on the final land use scenarios in the projected year, without considering how to reach the final optimized land use scenario. To fill this gap, a spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization (STLU‐MOO) model is innovatively proposed in this research to determine possible spatial land use solutions over time. The STLU‐MOO is an extension of a genetic land use multi‐objective optimization model (LU‐MOO) in which the LU‐MOO is generally carried out in different years, and the solutions at year T will affect the solutions at year T + 1. We used the Wuhan agglomeration (WHA) as our case study area. The STLU‐MOO model was employed separately for the nine cities in the WHA, and social, economic, and environmental objectives have been considered. The success of the experiments in the case study demonstrated the value and novelty of our proposed STLU‐MOO model. In addition, the results also indicated that the objectives considered in the case study were in conflict. According to the results, the optimal land use plan in 2050 can be traced back to 2040, 2030, and 2020, providing a series of Pareto solutions over the years which can provide spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization solutions to support the land use planning process.

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Spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization: A case study in Central China

Cao

Zhang

Wang

2019

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“…Here, science and technology studies (STS) and environmental politics scholars such as Eva Lövbrand highlight the social constructedness and political character of the Anthropocene concept, pointing to its emergence from a particular historically situated context, one dominated by a modernist and masculinist form of global science. By appreciating the positionality of Anthropocene science, they argue, we are better able to understand and critique the proposed solutions such scientists have taken upon themselves to suggest, namely, a reliance on elite science-led international institutions for 'Earth stewardship', including 'engineering' the climate (Lövbrand et al, 2015;Uhrqvist and Lövbrand, 2014).…”

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Organizing in the Anthropocene

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The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet's life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch -the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debates around this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizing narratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings of the Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that the Anthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not only understand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizing based on realistic Earth-human relations.

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“…L'IGBP a été mis en place en 1987 par le Conseil international des unions scientifiques (ICSU) en relation étroite avec les programmes d'observation satellitaire de la NASA, pour « coordonner la recherche internationale sur les interactions entre les processus biologiques, physiques et chimiques de la Terre, et leurs interactions avec les systèmes humains ». Les différents projets scientifiques de l'IGBP, notamment ceux visant à modéliser les écosystèmes et l'usage des terres, ont contribué à « forger les imaginaires de l'Anthropocène », une vision globale du changement environnemental et la représentation de l'humanité comme force planétaire (Uhrqvist et Lövbrand, 2014). L'historien de l'environnement Chundling Kwa (2005) a montré comment les coopérations interdisciplinaires promues par l'IGBP (utilisation des données satellitaires, modélisation, échelle globale…) ont profondément bouleversé les pratiques de l'écologie.…”

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L’environnement global, défi à la contextualisation ?

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2017

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Le changement climatique d'origine humaine, comme le changement global auquel est attachée la notion d'Anthropocène, sont des domaines dont la contextualisation est problématique en raison des échelles en jeu, de la gravité des problèmes et du rôle central des sciences. Cet article rend compte de travaux qui replacent ces questions d'environnement global dans des contextes historiques, sociaux et politiques, et des problèmes qu'ils soulèvent. Les deux domaines ont des statuts différents, et les enjeux sont dissemblables. Dans le cas du changement climatique, problème public mondial doté d'institutions internationales, les travaux sur la construction du problème et les rapports entre science et politique se sont opposés à un cadrage naturaliste prédominant. S'agissant de l'Anthropocène, notion peu stabilisée et appropriée par plusieurs groupes d'acteurs, des contextualisations partielles contestant certaines globalisations soulèvent des débats épistémiques et politiques.Abstract Human-caused climate change, like the global change to which the notion of the Anthropocene refers, are areas in which contextualisation is problematic due to the scales involved, the gravity of the problems, and the central role of the sciences. This article considers studies that resituate these issues of global environment in historical, social and political contexts, as well as some of the problems they raise. The two domains have different statuses, and the stakes are dissimilar. In the case of climate change, a global public problem endowed with international institutions, research on the construction of the issue and the relations between science and politics have been set against a predominant naturalist framing. In the case of the Anthropocene, a notion that has not yet stabilised and has been appropriated by several groups of actors, partial contextualisations contesting certain globalisations raise epistemic and political debates.

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Rendering global change problematic: the constitutive effects of Earth System research in the IGBP and the IHDP

Cited by 36 publications

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Spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization: A case study in Central China

Spatio‐temporal land use multi‐objective optimization: A case study in Central China

Organizing in the Anthropocene

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