Simon, David;
Gómez, Oscar A;
Gasper, Des;
Bennett, Kate;
Washbourne, Carla-Leanne;
Abasli, Ilaha;
Mukhtarov, Farhad;
... Sakar, Amitabha; + view all
(2023)
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene.
Global Social Challenges Journal
pp. 1-18.
10.1332/27523349y2023d000000004.
(In press).
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Abstract
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regions and may well rapidly be ‘off the scale’ of imaginability and survivability. Inevitably, as mounting empirical evidence and increasingly clear projections by the IPCC and other authoritative bodies show, these impacts are unevenly spread, both socially and spatially, both now and over the coming decades. The urgency of appropriate action is undeniable and we already know many dimensions of the required adaptations and transformations. Yet progress mostly remains too slow. These challenges are vital to the development studies community – heterogenous as it is – with our concerns for tackling poverty, inequality, deprivation and environmental degradation globally and locally. Hence this symposium asks what the crisis means for development theory, policy and practice and what development studies can and should be contributing to – and, indeed, whether it is capable of – addressing some key dimensions that warrant greater attention.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1332/27523349y2023d000000004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2023D000000004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Authors 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182566 |
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