Opportunities to foreground human embeddedness in the Anthropocene biosphere
Kaandorp, Chelsea (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Wang-Erlandsson, Lan (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Hattle, Andrew (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Folke, Carl (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Gelves-Gomez, Francisco (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Rocha, Juan Carlos (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Hartman Davies, Oscar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm))
Daily, Gretchen (Stanford University)
Donges, Jonathan F. Donges (Stockholm University)
Flores-Santana, Cynthia (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Galbraith, Eric D. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Goldin, Simon (Goldin+Senneby (Stockholm, Sweden))
Jobbágy, Esteban G. (Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina))
Søgaard Jørgensen, Peter (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
König, Ariane (University of Luxembourg)
Lambin, Eric F. (Stanford University)
van der Leeuw, Sander (Arizona State University)
Milo, Ron (Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel))
Ningrum, Dianty (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Nyström, Magnus (Stockholm University)
Reyers, Belinda (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Schill, Caroline (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Senneby, Jakob (Goldin+Senneby (Stockholm, Sweden))
Taniguchi, Makoto (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japó))
Österblom, Henrik (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Date:	2026
Description:	14 pàg.
Abstract:	Dominant traditions in Western science have traditionally separated humans from nature, a division that is reproduced in the distinction between natural and social sciences. This rift has persistently hampered the ability of sustainability science to comprehensively understand and address the profound challenges of the Anthropocene. In this perspective, we aim to challenge entrenched separations between humans and nature by emphasizing the embeddedness of humans in the biosphere. We conceptualize embeddedness from a systems perspective and illustrate it using case studies on human microbiomes and freshwater availability. We discuss how a focus on embeddedness can increasingly be adopted in sustainability research through developments in sensing, modeling, and commoning practices. By highlighting these conceptual and practical opportunities for studying embeddedness in the biosphere, we seek to support transdisciplinary dialogues and practices toward sustainable futures.
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2024-001506-M
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article de revisió ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Biosphere ; Commoning practices ; Embeddedness ; Modeling ; Relational approaches ; Sensing ; Social-ecological systems ; Sustainability science
Published in:	Cell Reports Sustainability, Vol. 3, Num. 7 (July 2026) , art. 100734, ISSN 2949-7906

DOI: 10.1016/j.crsus.2026.100734

14 p, 2.9 MB

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