Informe Mundial sobre Ciencias Sociales 2013 : cambios ambientales globales /
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Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world. This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences in confronting climate and broader processes of environmental change, and in addressing priority problems from energy and water, biodiversity and land use, to urbanisation, migration and education. The report includes 100 articles written by 150 autho
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Preface by Irina Bokova; Preface - A lighter carbon footprint, a greener world by Olive Shisana; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Table of contents; Changing global environments; 1. Social sciences in a changing global environment: General introduction; Global sustainability requires concerted action to protect the planet's bounty and, simultaneously, to safeguard social equity, human dignity and well-being for all; Why a social science report on global environmental change?; Objectives of the Report; The context: A changing environment for global environmental change research
Box 1.1. Future Earth and the Science and Technology Alliance for Global SustainabilityThe framework for the Report: Transformative cornerstones of social science research for global change; Box 1.2. Transformative Cornerstones of Social Science  Research for Global Change; Development of the Report; Structure and audiences of the report; Moving forward; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Global environmental change changes everything: Key messages and recommendations; Transformative knowledge for global sustainability: A new charter for the social sciences
Figure 2.1. The four main messages of the World Social Science Report 2013 and the stakeholder communities to whom they are addressedThe Report issues an urgent call to action to the social sciences, and to their supporters, funders, collaborators and users, to make such a bolder, better, bigger, and different social science a reality; Frame the change; The social sciences must help to fundamentally reframe climate and global environmental change from a physical into a social problem; Box 2.1. Framing the change; Enable change
A solutions-oriented social science would help society to rethink the shape and course of social systems, to contest them, to connect disparate insights on levers for change, and inform and provoke action for deliberate transformationBox 2.2. Enabling change; Build capacity for change; To meet the diverse and complex challenges of global environmental change and societal transformation, social science capacity needs to grow radically across the world; Box 2.3. Building capacity for change; Be the change; Box 2.4. Being the change
If the social sciences are serious about wanting their science to make a difference, they themselves must changeConclusions; Bibliography; Part 1. The complexity and urgency of global environmental change and social transformation; 3. Social and environmental change in a complex, uncertain world: Introduction to Part 1; Understanding action within complex social-ecological systems; Deepening our understanding of the role of humans; Identifying a safe and just operating space for humanity; Understanding well-being, finding new measures for growth; Understanding the difference that gender makes
Moving towards transformation
Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world. This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences in confronting climate and broader processes of environmental change, and in addressing priority problems from energy and water, biodiversity and land use, to urbanisation, migration and education. The report includes 100 articles written by 150 autho
Includes bibliographical references.
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Global environmental change.
Cambios ambientales globales.
Social sciences.
Ciencias sociales.