The Ecological Impact of Time
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in: Time & Society, Jahrgang 5, Nr. 2, 01.06.1996, S. 209-235.
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T1 - The Ecological Impact of Time
AU - Kümmerer, Klaus
N1 - © 1996, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
PY - 1996/6/1
Y1 - 1996/6/1
N2 - The increasingly technical nature of the industrial way of life has brought about dramatic changes in the temporality of socio-environmental problems. Local, short-term, acute disturbances in the environment have turned into global, long-term, chronic perturbations, and yet both the scientific and socio-political solutions offered for environmental problems are usually of a distinctly short-term nature. Despite the centrality of the time factor, time in all of its multiple expressions - as tempo, temporality, timing and rhythm, and so forth - has not yet received the attention it deserves. This paper suggests that the failure to engage with time has hastened the environmental crisis to its present proportions. Inclusion of the time factor in ecological (as well as in social and economic) discussions thus has worldwide consequences not only for humanity's understanding of and relationship with nature, but also for proposed solutions to the environmental crisis.
AB - The increasingly technical nature of the industrial way of life has brought about dramatic changes in the temporality of socio-environmental problems. Local, short-term, acute disturbances in the environment have turned into global, long-term, chronic perturbations, and yet both the scientific and socio-political solutions offered for environmental problems are usually of a distinctly short-term nature. Despite the centrality of the time factor, time in all of its multiple expressions - as tempo, temporality, timing and rhythm, and so forth - has not yet received the attention it deserves. This paper suggests that the failure to engage with time has hastened the environmental crisis to its present proportions. Inclusion of the time factor in ecological (as well as in social and economic) discussions thus has worldwide consequences not only for humanity's understanding of and relationship with nature, but also for proposed solutions to the environmental crisis.
KW - CONSEQUENCES
KW - ECOLOGY
KW - ENVIRONMENT
KW - environmental
KW - Expression
KW - global
KW - IMPACT
KW - IT
KW - perturbation
KW - Publication
KW - rhythm
KW - sustainable development
KW - time
KW - time-scale
KW - WELL
KW - Chemistry
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U2 - 10.1177/0961463X96005002005
DO - 10.1177/0961463X96005002005
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 5
SP - 209
EP - 235
JO - Time & Society
JF - Time & Society
SN - 0961-463X
IS - 2
ER -