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The environment as seen through the life of a journal: Ambio 1972–2022 by Sörlin, Sverker

“…Emerging after World War II “the environment” as a modern concept turned in the years around 1970 into a phase of institutionalization in science, civic…”
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David Lowenthal's archipelagic landscape of learning by Sörlin, Sverker

“…This article discusses David Lowenthal's last book, Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, which was published posthumously by Routledge in 2019 (available in print…”
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Hägerstrand as historian: innovation, diffusion and the processual landscape by Sörlin, Sverker

“…Torsten Hägerstrand explored innovation and diffusion as chorological processes but also as chronological processes. His strong interest in time brought him…”
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Reconfiguring environmental expertise by Sörlin, Sverker

“…► The concept of “environment” takes on its modern meaning right after WW II. ► “The environmental” was conceived as a “problem catalogue” of serious changes…”
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Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history by Sörlin, Sverker, Lane, Melissa

“…This introduction to a special issue of Climatic Change argues that it is timely and welcome to intensify historical research into climate change and climate…”
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Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region by Sörlin, Sverker, Isberg, Erik

“…The Anthropocene concept frames an emerging new understanding of the human–Earth relationship. It represents a profound temporal integration that brings…”
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Co-existing Notions of Research Quality: A Framework to Study Context-specific Understandings of Good Research by Langfeldt, Liv, Nedeva, Maria, Sörlin, Sverker, Thomas, Duncan A.

“…Notions of research quality are contextual in many respects: they vary between fields of research, between review contexts and between policy contexts. Yet,…”
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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet by Steffen, Will, Richardson, Katherine, Rockström, Johan, Cornell, Sarah E., Fetzer, Ingo, Bennett, Elena M., Biggs, Reinette, Carpenter, Stephen R., de Vries, Wim, de Wit, Cynthia A., Folke, Carl, Gerten, Dieter, Heinke, Jens, Mace, Georgina M., Persson, Linn M., Ramanathan, Veerabhadran, Reyers, Belinda, Sörlin, Sverker

“…Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which…”
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Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature by Ernstson, Henrik, Sörlin, Sverker

“…The paper demonstrates how ecosystem services can be viewed and studied as a social practice of value articulation. With this follows that when ecosystem…”
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Environmental Humanities: Why Should Biologists Interested in the Environment Take the Humanities Seriously? by Sörlin, Sverker

“…[...]despite all our efforts, most indicators of our future point in the wrong direction. Literary scholar Rob Nixon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,…”
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Humanities of Transformation: From Crisis and Critique towards the Emerging Integrative Humanities by Sörlin, Sverker

“…This article draws on the efforts to enhance and incentivize the humanities in the Nordic countries in the last quarter century, with a main focus on Sweden…”
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Environing technologies: a theory of making environment by Sörlin, Sverker, Wormbs, Nina

“…The central proposal of this article is that environing technologies shape and structure the way in which nature becomes environment, and as such used,…”
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Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research by Palsson, Gisli, Szerszynski, Bronislaw, Sörlin, Sverker, Marks, John, Avril, Bernard, Crumley, Carole, Hackmann, Heide, Holm, Poul, Ingram, John, Kirman, Alan, Buendía, Mercedes Pardo, Weehuizen, Rifka

“…► The characteristics of the ‘Anthropocene’. ► The necessary reconceptualization of Anthropos, the human. ► The “new human condition” of Anthropocene…”
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Social Movements and Ecosystem Services—the Role of Social Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban Green Areas in Stockholm by Ernstson, Henrik, Sörlin, Sverker, Elmqvist, Thomas

“…Exploitation and degradation of urban green areas reduce their capacity to sustain ecosystem services. In protecting and managing these areas, research has…”
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The 'physiologization' of skiing: the lab as an obligatory passage point for elite athletes? by Svensson, Daniel, Sörlin, Sverker

“…In The Pasteurization of France, Bruno Latour argued that the rise of hygiene was dependent on collaboration between Pasteur, the hygiene movement, scientists…”
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Changing the intellectual climate by Castree, Noel, Adams, William M., Barry, John, Brockington, Daniel, Büscher, Bram, Corbera, Esteve, Demeritt, David, Duffy, Rosaleen, Felt, Ulrike, Neves, Katja, Newell, Peter, Pellizzoni, Luigi, Rigby, Kate, Robbins, Paul, Robin, Libby, Rose, Deborah Bird, Ross, Andrew, Schlosberg, David, Sörlin, Sverker, West, Paige, Whitehead, Mark, Wynne, Brian

“…How the global change science community is currently portraying the character and role of the social sciences and humanities is problematic, according to this…”
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Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity by Rockström, Johan, Steffen, Will, Noone, Kevin, Persson, Åsa, Chapin, F. Stuart, Lambin, Eric, Lenton, Timothy M., Scheffer, Marten, Folke, Carl, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Nykvist, Björn, de Wit, Cynthia A., Hughes, Terry, van der Leeuw, Sander, Rodhe, Henning, Sörlin, Sverker, Snyder, Peter K., Costanza, Robert, Svedin, Uno, Falkenmark, Malin, Karlberg, Louise, Corell, Robert W., Fabry, Victoria J., Hansen, James, Walker, Brian, Liverman, Diana, Richardson, Katherine, Crutzen, Paul, Foley, Jonathan

“…Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach…”
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Pathways to the trail - landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region by Svensson, Daniel, Sörlin, Sverker, Saltzman, Katarina

“…Can walking trails be understood not only as routes to history and heritage, but also as heritage in and of themselves? The paper explores the articulation of…”
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The mediated planet: Datafication and the environmental SDGs by Wickberg, Adam, Lidström, Susanna, Lagerkvist, Amanda, Meyer, Tirza, Wormbs, Nina, Gärdebo, Johan, Sörlin, Sverker, Höhler, Sabine

“…Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become…”
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Quality from within: Entry points to research quality in the humanities by Müller, Klara, Salö, Linus, Sörlin, Sverker

“…Abstract It is well known that research quality notions vary across research fields. Despite this, humanities quality notions are often portrayed as deviant or…”
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