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Would human well being goal and operational mechanism be able to motivate the human society to transcend anthropocentric view for valuing biodiversity?
Posted on September 1st, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Climate, Interdisciplinary, Other, Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as anthropocentrism, Biodiversity, eco-centrism, ecosystem well-being, human well-being, knowledge gap, precautionary principle
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Through out the civilization process human beings have tried to organize themselves. Human well being goal has given rise to political system, economic system, social institutions. But all are governed by time bound action programmes which does not look beyond life time of maximum of two generations as private motive , time preference for present over future dominate. Non human biodiversity , their space in the ecosystem, role in human well being are least understood . This knowledge gap makes precautionary principle also fail to get defined and accepted. It is not technology, legislation or cooperation but education, ethics, that may lead to a smooth paradigm shift. Challenge is how to build that ecocentric goal which will embed in it anthropocentric goals. But theoretical solution will not be enough unless operational rules are laid out. Anthropocentric goals have led to human habitat design, mobility design etc. but without considering if that is in conflict with ecosystem’s well being. So challenge is how can the bigger picture be organised?
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Under at least three IPCC scenarios, two “extreme” (optimistic and pessimistic) and one intermediate, how will ecosystem services respond to global changes and pressure?
Posted on July 27th, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Climate, Earth System, Human Health, Interdisciplinary, Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as ecosystems, human well-being
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Even if higher reliability of scenario results or improved cause-effect relationship determination could help on predicting in a more accurate way the actual situation and the most probable future scenarios, whatever they will be, we have to be ready to be more accurate in estimating the capacity of actual ecosystem services to provide, in a continuous and sustainable manner, the ecosystem services in a level able to guarantee the improvement of the human well being without compromising the one of future generations.
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How will the land surface and lower atmospheric interactions affect human and other species well being?
Posted on August 5th, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Earth System Tagged as atmosphere, biosphere, human well-being, land
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There are still lots of uncertainties about the quality of human life and other species in view of the rapidly changing land-surface and its consequent interactions with the lower atmosphere. Gathering more information about this will help to redirect investments and draw up appropriate response to ensure human survival.
