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Anthropocene

Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2022
The “Anthropocene” is a term used to mark a period of history where humans have become the dominant force in the transformation of the Earth system. Humans are fundamentally altering the Earth system through processes with potentially catastrophic consequences, such as anthropogenic climate change, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, mass ...
Graulund, Rune, Höglund, Johan, Edwards, Justin D.   +2 more
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The development of Anthropocene Awareness Scale. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The political influence of the Anthropocene concept stems from its analytic potential to encompass various disciplines and capture public attention.
Donghun Kang, Moon Choi
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The Evolving Concept of the Anthropocene: A Reply to Zalasiewicz et al. [PDF]

Earth's Future
The claim that the Anthropocene is de facto a new epoch is disputed, along with the suggestion that Earth system transformation from one state to another can be pinned down to a single year. The epoch proposal was formally rejected in 2024 but, crucially,
Matt Edgeworth, Andrew M. Bauer, Erle C. Ellis, Stanley C. Finney, Philip L. Gibbard, Mark Maslin, Dorothy J. Merritts, M. J. C. Walker   +7 more
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Navigator - a global database of verified marine protected and managed area regulations and boundaries [PDF]

Scientific Data
Comprehensive, global, and standardized data on ocean regulations are essential to assess protection levels. They are also key to successfully measuring progress towards 30 × 30 goals.
Virgil Zetterlind, Jennifer Sletten, Claire Colegrove, Alex Driedger, Samantha Cope King, Nicole Raudsepp, Fabio Favoretto, Timothe Vincent   +7 more
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Invasion Potential of Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton and Xanthium strumarium L. in the Anthropocene of Ethiopia: Implications for Management [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Daniel Melese, Mulatu Ayenew Aligaz, Ahmed Seid Ahmed   +2 more
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Areas of Outstanding Nineteenth Century Beauty: Historic landscape characterisation analysis of protected areas in England

People and Nature, 2023
Establishing and expanding protected areas (PAs) has become a key conservation tool in efforts to halt global declines in biodiversity. Given the ubiquity of past and present human influence, PAs inevitably include landscapes and seascapes with varying ...
Michael J. Stratigos, Caroline Ward, Jack H. Hatfield, Jonathan Finch   +3 more
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FAR‐sighted conservation

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022
Conservation targets that reference historical expectations, such as maintaining specified areas of intact ecosystems, restoring degraded ones or maintaining the historic distributions of species, may not be realistic in the context of ongoing ...
Chris D. Thomas, Jane K. Hill, Caroline Ward, Jack H. Hatfield   +3 more
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Building a Practical Multi-Sensor Platform for Monitoring Vessel Activity near Marine Protected Areas: Case Studies from Urban and Remote Locations

Remote Sensing, 2023
Monitoring vessel activity is an important part of managing marine protected areas (MPAs), but small-scale fishing and recreational vessels that do not participate in cooperative vessel traffic systems require additional monitoring strategies.
Samantha Cope, Brendan Tougher, Virgil Zetterlind, Lisa Gilfillan, Andres Aldana   +4 more
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The Limits of Anthropocene Narratives [PDF]

, 2020
The rapidly growing transdisciplinary enthusiasm about developing new kinds of Anthropocene stories is based on the shared assumption that the Anthropocene predicament is best made sense of by narrative means. Against this assumption, this article argues
Ankersmit FR, Ankersmit FR, Arendt H, Bonneuil C, Braidotti R, Carr D, Danto AC, Gallie WB, Ginzburg C, Hamilton C, Himmelfarb G, Malm A, Mandelbaum M, Mink LO, Moore JW, Partner N, Ricœur P, White H, White H, White H, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon   +20 more
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Trajectories of freshwater microbial genomics and greenhouse gas saturation upon glacial retreat

Nature Communications, 2023
Due to climate warming, ice sheets around the world are losing mass, contributing to changes across terrestrial landscapes on decadal time spans. However, landscape repercussions on climate are poorly constrained mostly due to limited knowledge on ...
Jing Wei, Laurent Fontaine, Nicolas Valiente, Peter Dörsch, Dag O. Hessen, Alexander Eiler   +5 more
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