The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth and the future of humanity

Castree, N

The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth and the future of humanity

Castree, N

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Anthropocene Encounters, 2019, pp. 25-49
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Castree, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0282-5319
dc.contributor.editor	Biermann, F
dc.contributor.editor	Lovbrand, E
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-31T06:47:34Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-31T06:47:34Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Anthropocene Encounters, 2019, pp. 25-49
dc.identifier.isbn	9781108740418
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/143642
dc.description.abstract	Global change scientists are making epochal claims about the Earth of wide relevance and great profundity. historically, green thinking has rested on a foundation of scientific claims about human impacts on nature. Without discounting the significance of these impacts, this chapter unsettles the foundational claims about global nature that animate Earth System science. It suggests that there is an irredeemably cultural component of all cognitive claims about the 'fact' of global environmental change. This component can be acknowledged without sliding into epistemic or ontological relativism. It can form the basis of a more robust politics of global environmental management if handled properly, such that a scientised politics and a politicised science do not become the default options.
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press
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dc.title	The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth and the future of humanity
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

Global change scientists are making epochal claims about the Earth of wide relevance and great profundity. historically, green thinking has rested on a foundation of scientific claims about human impacts on nature. Without discounting the significance of these impacts, this chapter unsettles the foundational claims about global nature that animate Earth System science. It suggests that there is an irredeemably cultural component of all cognitive claims about the 'fact' of global environmental change. This component can be acknowledged without sliding into epistemic or ontological relativism. It can form the basis of a more robust politics of global environmental management if handled properly, such that a scientised politics and a politicised science do not become the default options.

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