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Interdisciplinarity and crowdsourcing in ecology as reply to the challenges of technogenic civilization
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Interdisciplinarity and crowdsourcing in ecology as reply to the challenges of technogenic civilization
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S1811-833X0000617-8-1
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Article
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Published
Authors
E. V. Petrova 
Edition
Volume 57 Issue 4
Pages
117-122
Abstract
The main characteristic of the modern environment is the negative change by its people - destruction and pollution. Man is part of the biosphere and the technogenic transformations of the biosphere inevitably affect him. Under the influence of technogenic civilization, all spheres of human activity undergo changes, and science above all. Ecology is especially keenly aware of the challenges of technogenic civilization. It focuses on anthropogenic factors, works with the human environment. At the same time, its problem field is expanding due to interdisciplinary research and the allocation of knowledge of new environmental disciplines into an independent industry. The interdisciplinarity of modern ecology is most clearly visible on the example of such a direction as informational ecology. The presence of the digital environment in human life has grown so much that it requires the separation of the digital information environment into a separate subsystem. Information ecology studies the laws of the influence of information on the formation and functioning of man. In turn, interdisciplinarity, assuming the use of knowledge from various branches of science, brings us to the problems of the collective agent of cognition and distributed knowledge. In ecology, the problems of the collective agent of cognition are implemented through crowdsourcing technology. Ecology is a science that requires massive collection of observation data (samples of water, air, soil pollution in various, sometimes hard-to-reach corners of the planet, observation of fluctuations in the number of species of animals and plants). The popularity of crowdsourcing projects in the field of ecology is explained by the fact that the challenges and threats of anthropogenic civilization have generated such a trend of our time as environmental orientation or environmentalism. Ecological crowdsourcing projects, inspired by the philosophy of environmentalism, can serve as an answer to the challenges of technogenic civilization.
Keywords
technogenic civilization, ecology, information ecology, interdisciplinarity, crowdsourcing, collective agent of cognition, distributed knowledge
Date of publication
01.12.2020
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