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DOI: 10.21202/1993-047X.10.2016.2.5-21

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Authors :
1. Nikolay N. Drozdov, Doctor of Biology, Professor
Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov

2. Lev P. Kurakov, Doctor of Economics, Professor
National Research Mordovia State University named after N.P. Ogarev

3. Sergey M. Pyastolov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Researcher
Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

4. Aleksandr L. Kurakov, Doctor of Economics, Professor
National Research Mordovia State University named after N.P. Ogarev



Issues of forming the science of anthropocene


Objective: to study the issues of anthropocene formation as a scientific concept.

Methods: dialectical method of cognition, detailization, logical generalization.

Results: the concepts of ES (ecosystem, ecosystem services), environmental Economics are viewed. Strengths and weaknesses were analyzed of the concept of "Ecosystem Services". The model of socio-economic metabolism (SEM) was proposed. In addition, the anthropocene is considered in the work as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The authors concluded that in such scientific fields as climate research (adaptation to climate change), political ecology, studies of technology and science (STS) and others, where the subject of the study includes social constructs, the concepts of nature and societies are complex and are reproduced as hybrid eco-socioeconomic cultures. This idea implies a call for transdisciplinarity.

Scientific novelty: anthropocene is presented as a normative scientific concept that could give hope for favorable prospects of human development.

Practical significance: the provision of social request for prescriptive directions, assisting in the "recovery" of the planetary system, and approaches to the development of the anthropocene science in a normative way.
 


Keywords :

Economic theory; Ecosystem services; Socio-economic metabolism; Paradigm; Social-ecological system; Political ecology; Transdisciplinarity


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Citation :

 Drozdov N. N., Kurakov L. P., Pyastolov S. M., Kurakov A. L. Issues of forming the science of anthropocene, Actual Problems of Economics and Law, 2016, vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 5–21.


Type of article : The scientific article

Date of receipt of the article :
29.02.2016

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04.04.2016

Date of online accommodation :
15.07.2016