Resource management: the long-term global trend

Wescoat, JR James L.

doi:10.1177/030913259101500108

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“…However, such analogs are imperfect matches with the present, especially with regard to technological and sociopolitical conditions of the human subsystem, and often inappropriate (Meyer et al 1998, Wescoat 1991. The complexity of land systems, particularly as it affects system outcomes, is a major reason why sustainability science orients itself toward placeand time-based assessments (Kates et al 2001).…”

Section: Uses Of the Past To Inform Land Systems: Analog And Evolutiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

Dearing¹,

Braimoh²,

Reenberg³

et al. 2010

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Section: Uses Of the Past To Inform Land Systems: Analog And Evolutiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

Dearing¹,

Braimoh²,

Reenberg³

et al. 2010

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“…We did so by comparing the past and the present as different case studies and looking for differences and similarities that might help us to better understand the present-how it came about, how it functioned, where past cases may serve as lessons for our own situation, and what we might do about undesirable aspects of that situation (e.g., Glantz 1994, Landes 1998, Tainter 1998, Gill 2001, Haug et al 2003, Diamond 2005Jackson and Hobbs 2009). Though such analogues offer insights into differences and similarities between cases and sensitize the expert, they are by definition imperfect matches with the present, especially in view of the very rapid changes the earth system (including many societies) has undergone over the last century or so (Wescoat 1991, Meyer et al 1998. As a result, many (but not all) such comparisons between past and present have engendered "just so" stories that alert their audience to potential dangers by overstressing similarities and underplaying differences between the past and the present.…”

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Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

Leeuw¹,

Costanza

Aulenbach³

et al. 2011

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Many contemporary societal challenges manifest themselves in the domain of human–environment interactions. There is a growing recognition that responses to these challenges formulated within current disciplinary boundaries, in isolation from their wider contexts, cannot adequately address them. Here, we outline the need for an integrated, transdisciplinary synthesis that allows for a holistic approach, and, above all, a much longer time perspective. We outline both the need for and the fundamental characteristics of what we call “integrated history.” This approach promises to yield new understandings of the relationship between the past, present, and possible futures of our integrated human–environment system. We recommend a unique new focus of our historical efforts on the future, rather than the past, concentrated on learning about future possibilities from history. A growing worldwide community of transdisciplinary scholars is forming around building this Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE). Building integrated models of past human societies and their interactions with their environments yields new insights into those interactions and can help to create a more sustainable and desirable future. The activity has become a major focus within the global change community

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“…It has been some time since ‘natural resources' formed the subject of a report for Progress in Human Geography . Natural resource management and conservation were staple features of reviews from the establishment of this journal in the 1970s until the early 1990s (Mitchell, 1980; Munton, 1983; Owens and Owens, 1987, 1989; Simmons, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982; Wescoat, 1991, 1992, 1993). Since then research on the appraisal, appropriation, regulation and co-production of the non-human world has continued to feature within Progress but largely under the alternative flag of ‘environmental issues' (Braun, 2005, 2006, 2008; Castree, 2002, 2003, 2004; Reed and Christie, 2009) or political ecology (Neumann, 2009, 2010).…”

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Resource geographies 1

Bridge

2010

Progress in Human Geography

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This progress report is the first in a series of three on resource geographies, and reflects a renewed interest within human geography and cognate disciplines in classic resource questions of scarcity, access and governance. It focuses on carbon, an element which is fast becoming a common denominator for thinking about the organization of social life in relation to the environment. The report examines how researchers are applying one of resource geography’s principle tenets - that so-called ‘natural resources' are an outcome of political, economic and cultural work - to understand the resource-making processes associated with the ‘carbon economy’. Significantly, it expands this term from its limited association with carbon markets and offsetting to encompass the ‘actually existing’ carbon economy associated with the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels. By reading these ‘old’ and ‘new’ carbon economies together, the report considers the making of carbon resources as they extend from the upstream, extractive end of the hydrocarbon commodity chain to the emission, capture and sequestration of carbon downstream. It harnesses the reductionism inherent to ‘carbon’ - its capacity to put apparently different entities on the same page - in order to identify commonalities and connections between the old and new carbon economies that are ordinarily overlooked. The report is organized around three core ‘logics' of resource making that can be identified in recent work: economy, territory and subject formation.

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Resource management: the long-term global trend

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

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