Montana Jasper, Welden E A, Anderson Lea May, Bennett Aoife, Byfuglien Andrea, Bhalla Sophie, Fair Hannah, Greenhough Beth, Hafferty Caitlin, Hirons Mark, Kumeh Eric Mensah, Maguire-Rajpaul Victoria, McDermott Constance L, Mulyani Mari, Picot Laura
Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2612, Australia.
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3QY, UK.
iScience. 2025 May 23;28(6):112736. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112736. eCollection 2025 Jun 20.
The social sciences are crucial contributors to environmental research. Collectively, they provide insights on the economic, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions of sustainability challenges. Yet, efforts to mainstream the social sciences in environmental research are missing the diversity of social science scholarship. Here, we contend that the critical and interpretive social sciences -which question and rethink established paradigms and power structures- have an invaluable, yet still underutilized, role. We propose that rethinking the focus, conduct, and goals of environmental research recognizing 10 facts from the critical and interpretive social sciences can help environmental research to better support desired transformative change for the benefit of both people and planet.
社会科学是环境研究的重要贡献者。总体而言，它们为可持续发展挑战的经济、文化、政治和心理层面提供了见解。然而，将社会科学纳入环境研究主流的努力却忽略了社会科学学术研究的多样性。在此，我们认为批判性和解释性社会科学——即对既定范式和权力结构提出质疑并进行重新思考的学科——具有宝贵但仍未得到充分利用的作用。我们建议，重新思考环境研究的重点、开展方式和目标，认识到批判性和解释性社会科学的10个事实，有助于环境研究更好地支持实现理想的变革，造福人类和地球。
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