Geography
Title
Toward a normative land systems science
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Science should provide solutions for societal transformations toward sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socio-ecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, is well placed to contribute to this agenda. This goal requires a stronger engagement with the normative implications of scientific practice, research topics, questions and results. We identify concerns as well as three concrete steps for land system science to more deeply contribute in normative issues. In particular, we encourage land system scientists to discuss explicitly the normative questions, values, perspectives and assumptions already present in our research, as well as to identify key normative research questions to contribute to societal transformations.
Publication Title
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Publication Date
6-2019
Volume
38
First Page
1
Last Page
6
ISSN
1877-3435
DOI
10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.003
Repository Citation
Nielsen, Jonas; de Bremond, Ariane; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku; Friis, Cecilie; Metternicht, Graciela; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Munroe, Darla; Pascual, Unai; and Thomson, Allison, "Toward a normative land systems science" (2019). Geography. 579.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/579