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Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

handle: 1885/53404
Abstract Many contemporary societal challenges manifest themselves in the domain of humanenvironment 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, trans-disciplinary 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 trans-disciplinary 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.
- Upsalla University Sweden
- Arizona State University United States
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
- University of Utah United States
- University of Bristol
anthropocene, 791, causality, QH301-705.5, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, integrated history, Social and ecological systems, contingency, Human beings -- Effect of environment on, Contingency, Keywords: historical perspective, Human ecology, Anthropocene, backcasting, Biology (General), Backcasting, resilience, QH540-549.5, Holistic approach, Nature -- Effect of environment on, Resilience, Ecology, Integrated history, social and ecological systems, integrated approach, Causality, Sustainability, Ecology -- Social aspects, agency, nature-society relations Agency, holistic approach, long-term perspective, Long-term perspective
anthropocene, 791, causality, QH301-705.5, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, integrated history, Social and ecological systems, contingency, Human beings -- Effect of environment on, Contingency, Keywords: historical perspective, Human ecology, Anthropocene, backcasting, Biology (General), Backcasting, resilience, QH540-549.5, Holistic approach, Nature -- Effect of environment on, Resilience, Ecology, Integrated history, social and ecological systems, integrated approach, Causality, Sustainability, Ecology -- Social aspects, agency, nature-society relations Agency, holistic approach, long-term perspective, Long-term perspective
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