Navigating disciplinary challenges to global sustainability science: an archaeological model

Current threats posed by anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss, the degradation of ecosystem services, and other related impacts of human activity require a concerted res- ponse through a global science of sustainability. The threats faced by humanity are so extensive that all academic disciplines are affected in some way and all have a role to play in developing potential responses. Given that few academic disciplines have traditionally focused on issues of ecology or sustainability, however, major challenges remain with respect to how we might build a global science of sustainability that can support concrete policy and interventions. This paper proposes a developmental model with five levels of research and practice required for an effective global sustainability science and examines some of the challenges faced by archaeology in moving up these levels.Trenutne nevarnosti, ki jih povzročajo človeško pogojene klimatske spremembe, izguba biodiverzitete, degradacija ekosistemov in drugi sorodni vplivi človeške dejavnosti, potrebujejo poglobljen odgovor preko svetovne teorije vzdržljivosti. Nevarnosti, s katerimi se sooča človeštvo, so tako obsežne, da vplivajo na vsa akademska področja enako, zato bi morali vsi sodelovati pri iskanju rešitev. Kako zgraditi svetovno znanost o vzdržljivosti, ki bi podpirala konkretne strategije in intervencije, pa ostaja velik izziv, saj se le redke akademske discipline tradicionalno ukvarjajo z vprašanji o ekologiji ali vzdržljivosti. V članku predlagam razvojni model s petimi nivoji raziskovanja in praks, ki so potrebne za učinkovito svetovno znanost o vzdržljivosti, in ki preučujejo nekatere izzive, s katerimi se sooča arheologija, ko se pomika po teh nivojih