Since the 1980s, Earth System science (ESS) has become an umbrella for research carried out in a variety of disciplines such as climatology, biogeochemistry, geology, oceanography, and ecology. The concept of a single Earth System developed in ESS is a central contribution of basic research to the current political and scientific debate about the Anthropocene. Even though this concept is...
In this talk we use the theoretical background provided by the Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP)and Tensions of Europe (ToE), two independent research networks which coexisted in time, from 1999 to 2014, two address two topics – crises and Anthropocene. Both STEP’s and ToE’s agendas and the debates on crises and the Anthropocene call for a longue durée approach and for an...
