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T1 Into the fray: a call for policy-engaged and actionable environmental humanities
A1 Hartman, Steven
K1 Environmental humanities
K1 Sustainable Development Goals
K1 Science-policy interface
K1 Knowledge assessment
K1 Global environmental change
K1 Humanidades ambientales
K1 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
K1 Interfaz ciencia-política
K1 Evaluación del conocimiento
K1 Cambio medioambiental global
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB As European countries strive to meet their targets in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by UN member states in 2015, the importance of integrating all knowledge communities in coordinated responses to sustainability challenges becomes an increasing priority. The creativity and depth of knowledge within philosophical, cultural, aesthetic and historical disciplines of the humanities has been underutilized in coordinated international assessment initiatives that aim to inform policy and facilitate solutions of sustainability governance. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a field of growing significance internationally. While it can no longer be called an emerging field, EH still holds only the promise of bringing knowledge of social and cultural systems to coordinated international efforts to address the human dimensions of global environmental change. The significant knowledge and expertise on the human dimensions of environmental change available within the EH field should be regarded as an indispensable resource to policymakers and to those on the ground who work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This essay makes a case for actionable, policy-engaged environmental humanities, an ambition that should certainly extend to the domain of the humanities more generally.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45748
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45748
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024