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100			_aGörg, Christoph _952517
245			_aScrutinizing the Great Acceleration: _bThe Anthropocene and its analytic challenges for social-ecological transformations/
260			_bsage _c2020
300			_aVol 7, Issue 1, 2020 : (42-61 p.).
520			_aDespite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical approach to capitalist development. We argue that such an interdisciplinary approach can help to better understand the Great Acceleration of production and consumption and the related surge in global resource flows. The observation of such an acceleration in the physical growth of societies, in turn, is perceived as the most convincing argument to explain fundamental shifts in the state and functioning of the Earth system, the Anthropocene. Our approach emphasizes that the Great Acceleration was not homogeneous, neither in space nor in time. Instead, spatial varieties and different historical trajectories must be considered which allow for the differentiation of two phases of accelerated resource use, taking place in different world regions. In this article, we propose an integrated research framework for the study of the Great Acceleration, illustrate the insights to which its application leads and discuss the political relevance of the Anthropocene for further research on social-ecological transformations.
650			_aAnthropocene, _950650
650			_aGreat Acceleration, _952518
650			_a Material and Energy Flow Accounting, _952519
650			_a Political Ecology, _949633
650			_a Regulation Theory, _952520
650			_a resource use, _952521
650			_asocial-ecological transformation, _952522
650			_aSocial Ecology _952523
700			_aPlank, Christina _952524
700			_aWiedenhofer, Dominik _952525
773	0		_010524 _915375 _dSage Pub. 2019 - _tThe anthropocene review. _x2053-020X
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2053019619895034
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