Sustainability or Collapse: What Can We Learn from Integrating the History of Humans and the Rest of Nature?
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Costanza, Robert; Graumlich, Lisa J.; Steffen, Will; Crumley, Carole L; Dearing, John; Hibbard, Kathy A.; Leemans, Rik; Redman, Charles L; Schimel, David
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Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic relationships between environmental stress and social change are inadequate. Extreme drought, for instance, triggered both social collapse and ingenious management of water through irrigation. Human responses to change, in turn, feed into climate and ecological systems, producing a complex web of...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Costanza, Robert | |
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dc.contributor.author | Graumlich, Lisa J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Steffen, Will | |
dc.contributor.author | Crumley, Carole L | |
dc.contributor.author | Dearing, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Hibbard, Kathy A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Leemans, Rik | |
dc.contributor.author | Redman, Charles L | |
dc.contributor.author | Schimel, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:09:08Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0044-7447 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/28895 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic relationships between environmental stress and social change are inadequate. Extreme drought, for instance, triggered both social collapse and ingenious management of water through irrigation. Human responses to change, in turn, feed into climate and ecological systems, producing a complex web of multidirectional connections in time and space. Integrated records of the co-evolving human-environment system over millennia are needed to provide a basis for a deeper understanding of the present and for forecasting the future. This requires the major task of assembling and integrating regional and global historical, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental records. Humans cannot predict the future. But, if we can adequately understand the past, we can use that understanding to influence our decisions and to create a better, more sustainable and desirable future. | |
dc.publisher | MediaPrint | |
dc.source | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment | |
dc.subject | Keywords: coevolution; drought; environmental stress; history; human behavior; paleoenvironment; social change; sustainability; climate; ecosystem; human; natural science; policy; review; Climate; Ecosystem; Humans; Nature; Social Planning | |
dc.title | Sustainability or Collapse: What Can We Learn from Integrating the History of Humans and the Rest of Nature? | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 36 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 049999 - Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.absfor | 169905 - Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | |
local.identifier.absfor | 219999 - History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | U4279067xPUB61 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Costanza, Robert, University of Vermont | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Graumlich, Lisa J., University of Arizona | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Steffen, Will, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Crumley, Carole L, University of North Carolina | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Dearing, John, University of Liverpool | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Hibbard, Kathy A., National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Leemans, Rik, Wageningen University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Redman, Charles L, Arizona State University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Schimel, David, National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 7 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 522 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 527 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[522:SOCWCW]2.0.CO;2 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-08T07:22:31Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-37349119307 | |
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