| Journal: | Revista brasileira de ciencias sociais |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000281802 |
| ISSN: | 0102-6909 |
| Authors: | Drummond, Jose Augusto1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade de Brasilia, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel, Brasilia, Distrito Federal. Brasil |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Season: | Oct |
| Volumen: | 21 |
| Number: | 62 |
| Pages: | 5-25 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | The article discusses the contributions made by seven natural scientists – Paul Sears, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, Donella Meadows, Garrett Hardin, and James Lovelock to the establishment of the contemporary environmental agenda. It argues that almost every major issue in this agenda was brought up and publicized originally by natural scientists. Social scientists interested in these issues were latecomers, mostly because they held on to the "human exemption paradigm." Sometimes they also ignore the contributions of their colleagues in the natural sciences, a flaw that affects negatively the quality of their own endeavors. The article proposes that social scientists and natural scientists should deepen their exchanges on environmental matters |
| Portuguese abstract | Este artigo discute as contribuições de sete cientistas naturais – Paul Sears, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, Donella Meadows, Garrett Hardin e James Lovelock – na construção da agenda ambiental contemporânea. O autor sustenta que os cientistas sociais chegaram a ela de forma retardatária e, por vezes, parcialmente equivocada por se apegarem a uma tradição de explicar o "social apenas pelo social". Muitos cometeram ainda o erro de ignorar as contribuições daqueles pioneiros, com prejuízo para as suas próprias análises. Creio que seja imprescindível que pesquisadores do campo das ciências exatas e humanas dialoguem de forma mais intensa sobre os temas da agenda ambiental |
| Disciplines: | Biología |
| Keyword: | Ecología, Desertificación, Especies en peligro de extinción, Medio ambiente, Agenda ambiental, Ciencias naturales, Ciencia, Ciencias sociales |
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