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2. Ecological Novelty: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Ecological Change in the Anthropocene

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Abstract

This chapter presents a broad view of an ecological science in search of new paradigms for tackling the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene. In a first part, I introduce the concept of ‘ecological novelty’ to characterise ongoing environmental change. The environmental change that brings about ecological novelty can be characterised by at least six attributes: it is (1) man-made, (2) large, (3) very fast, (4) multi-dimensional, (5) variable, unknown and unpredictable and (6) of global extent and even affecting remote wilderness areas. In the second and third parts, I focus on two fundamental challenges that ecological novelty poses for ecological research: (i) distinguishing between nature and culture as separate realms of scientific investigation becomes obsolete; and (ii) understanding how ecological systems change requires embracing the complexities of ecosystems under real-world conditions (as opposed to controlled experimental settings) resulting from open system boundaries, contingencies and historicity. Ecology has long explored the transition zone between the natural and social sciences, and can significantly contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of societal adaptation, whether to climate or more generally to environmental change.

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Titel: Ecological Novelty: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Ecological Change in the Anthropocene
verfasst von: Christoph Kueffer
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Buch: Grounding Global Climate Change
Print ISBN: 978-94-017-9321-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-017-9322-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3_2