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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth ...
W. Steffen +15 more
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The Anthropocene Review, 2023 We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which one will be recommended as the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point ...
C. Waters +3 more
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On the Anthropocene formalization and the proposal by the Anthropocene Working Group
Geologica Acta, 2020 In the coming years the Anthropocene will be likely submitted to formalization by the Anthropocene Working Group as a chronostratigraphic unit of the Geologic Time Scale.
C. Soriano
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Du tout petit et du très grand : l’anthropocène à l’échelle d’un théâtre d’objets
Percées, 2021 En tant qu’art de l’ici et du maintenant, le théâtre semble de prime abord un médium bien peu à même de se saisir de la complexité des phénomènes (temporels, spatiaux, sociohistoriques) que subsume le terme « anthropocène ». À travers l’étude de deux cas
Julie Sermon
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Insect Declines in the Anthropocene.
Annual Review of Entomology, 2020 Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and there are considerable demographic data for many taxonomically disparate
D. Wagner
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The Anthropocene Review, 2023 An annually laminated succession in Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada is proposed for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) to define the Anthropocene as a series/epoch with a base dated at 1950 CE.
F. McCarthy +28 more
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Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene
Annual Review Environment and Resources, 2023 Many challenges posed by the current Anthropocene epoch require fundamental transformations to humanity's relationships with the rest of the planet. Achieving such transformations requires that humanity improve its understanding of the current situation ...
Steven Cork +17 more
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Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2023 The Anthropocene is characterized by accelerating change and global challenges of increasing complexity. Inspired by what some have called a polycrisis, we explore whether the human trajectory of increasing complexity and influence on the Earth system ...
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen +12 more
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Scientific Doomsday Scenarios: Foresight Projections for the Near and Deep Future
Cahiers François Viète, 2019 This paper conveys the projections for the end of the Earth and Heat Death of the Universe according to scientific narrative of Big History. It also introduces some concepts from the field of ‘foresight’ regarding how to look at multiple futures in a ...
David Baker
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A New Keyword in the Museum: Exhibiting the Anthropocene
Museum & Society, 2021 Since 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene has moved from its geologic field of origin into numerous other academic disciplines and into the world of museums.
Lotte Isager +2 more
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