Hoffmann Ellen M, Schareika Nikolaus, Dittrich Christoph, Schlecht Eva, Sauer Daniela, Buerkert Andreas
Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, Universität Kassel, Steinstrasse 19, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany.
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Theaterstrasse 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
Sustain Sci. 2023 May 20:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s11625-023-01331-2.
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Examples from around the globe show that 'the rural' and 'the urban' are not only highly interdependent, but actually coexist and often merge in the same space or livelihood strategy. Our concept of provides an integrated theoretical framework which overcomes the rural-urban divide and can be operationalised for empirical research. is the next stringent step following the gradual widening of previous concepts from urban-centred approaches through the emphasis on urban peripheries to attempts of abolishing any distinction of a rural environment and acknowledging the highly dynamic nature of globalising urbanisation. Building on complex systems theory and assemblage thinking, our concept explores complementary aspects of the distinct epistemic worldviews dominating the natural and social sciences. Within this theoretical frame, we derive four analytical dimensions as entry points for empirical research: , , , and . Two examples illustrate how these dimensions apply, interact, and together lead to a comprehensive, insightful understanding of phenomena. Such understanding can be an effective starting point for assessing potential contributions of to long-term global sustainability.
随着气候变化、人口增长和自然资源的过度开发，城市化是我们这个时代的主要全球挑战之一。它是一个诸多全球重大挑战相互交织的节点，因此是可持续发展的关键。将城市化广泛理解为景观和社会从农村到城市状态的连续单向转变，这一观点越来越受到质疑。全球各地的例子表明，“农村”和“城市”不仅高度相互依存，而且实际上在同一空间或生计策略中并存且常常相互融合。我们的概念提供了一个综合理论框架，克服了城乡二元划分，可用于实证研究。在先前概念从以城市为中心的方法逐步扩展，经强调城市边缘地区，到试图消除农村环境的任何区分并承认全球化城市化的高度动态性质之后，这是下一步的严格举措。基于复杂系统理论和组合思维，我们的概念探索了主导自然科学和社会科学的不同认知世界观的互补方面。在这个理论框架内，我们得出四个分析维度作为实证研究的切入点： ， ， ，和 。两个例子说明了这些维度如何应用、相互作用，并共同促成对 现象的全面、深刻理解。这种理解可以成为评估 对长期全球可持续性潜在贡献的有效起点。
