Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 603-606Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.11
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assessments; ecology; sustainability; interdisciplinary science; policy; ethics
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- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1026415] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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