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  Closing the loop: Reconnecting human dynamics to Earth System science

Donges, J. F., Winkelmann, R., Lucht, W., Cornell, S. E., Dyke, J. G., Rockström, J., Heitzig, J., Schellnhuber, H. J. (2017): Closing the loop: Reconnecting human dynamics to Earth System science. - The Anthropocene Review, 4, 2, 151-157.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019617725537

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Donges, Jonathan Friedemann1, Author              
Winkelmann, Ricarda1, Author              
Lucht, Wolfgang1, Author              
Cornell, Sarah E.2, Author
Dyke, James G.2, Author
Rockström, Johan2, Author
Heitzig, Jobst1, Author              
Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim1, Author              
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1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, ou_persistent13              
2External Organizations, ou_persistent22              

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Free keywords: coevolutionary dynamics, complex adaptive networks, Earth System analysis, Earth System modelling, human agency, planetary boundaries, safe and just space for humanity, sustainable development goals
 Abstract: International commitment to the appropriately ambitious Paris climate agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 has pulled into the limelight the urgent need for major scientific progress in understanding and modelling the Anthropocene, the tightly intertwined social-environmental planetary system that humanity now inhabits. The Anthropocene qualitatively differs from previous eras in Earth’s history in three key characteristics: (1) There is planetary-scale human agency. (2) There are social and economic networks of teleconnections spanning the globe. (3) It is dominated by planetary-scale social-ecological feedbacks. Bolting together old concepts and methodologies cannot be an adequate approach to describing this new geological era. Instead, we need a new paradigm in Earth System science that is founded equally on a deep understanding of the physical and biological Earth System – and of the economic, social and cultural forces that are now an intrinsic part of it. It is time to close the loop and bring socially mediated dynamics explicitly into theory, analysis and models that let us study the whole Earth System.

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 Dates: 2017
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1177/2053019617725537
PIKDOMAIN: Earth System Analysis - Research Domain I
PIKDOMAIN: Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods - Research Domain IV
PIKDOMAIN: Director / Executive Staff / Science & Society
eDoc: 7701
Working Group: Ice Dynamics
Working Group: Whole Earth System Analysis
Working Group: Development of advanced time series analysis techniques
Working Group: Network- and machine-learning-based prediction of extreme events
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Title: The Anthropocene Review
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 4 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 151 - 157 Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/anthropocene_review