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Governing in the Anthropocene: are there cyber-systemic antidotes to the malaise of modern governance? [PDF]
, 2018 The Anthropocene imposes new challenges for governments, demanding capabilities for dealing with complexity and uncertainty. In this paper we examine how effective governing of social-biophysical dynamics is constrained by current processes and systems ...
Alexandra, Jason +2 more
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Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson +6 more
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Environmental impact assessment based on particulate matter, and chlorophyll content of urban trees
Scientific ReportsThe amount of dust deposited on tree leaves is a cost-effective indicator of air quality. Our aim was to explore the leaf surface deposition, and chlorophyll content of leaves along a road section that started at an intersection, and ended in a less ...
Vanda Éva Abriha-Molnár +6 more
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Mathematical Analysis of Anthropogenic Signatures: The Great Deceleration [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Distributions of anthropogenic signatures (impacts and activities) are mathematically analysed. The aim is to understand the Anthropocene and to see whether anthropogenic signatures could be used to determine its beginning. A total of 23 signatures were analysed and results are presented in 31 diagrams.
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Glocalism, 2018 This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kimberley region in Australia.
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Citying in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Architecture_MPS, 2015 Historically, cities have been the repository and medium for our collective works, aspirations, and celebrations, driven by the promise of prosperity, wellbeing, and societal accord. Contemporary cities are technologically mediated in a manner that is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal conditions of the urban realm at an unprecedented scale and ...
Jemtrud, Michael, Ragsdale, Keith
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this context, scholars increasingly stress the need to adopt place‐based approaches by analysing how humans and wildlife interact ...
Alice Ouvrier +7 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecologists recognise that we live on an increasingly human‐dominated planet, yet most of the field's foundational concepts remain essentially biophysical, with little reference to human society. There are few better examples of this divide between ecological and social theory than the niche concept.
Alex McInturff +3 more
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Area, EarlyView., 2022 This article uses examples from practice‐led‐research to explore the tensions between rewilding and the gendered embodied knowledge of upland farmers in an area of Wales, UK called the Cambrian Mountains. This paper argues that within the context of the polarising ideas of rewilding, sensitivity and the need to listen to the embodied, situated ...
Ffion Jones
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Doing public theology in the anthropocene towards life-creating theology
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 If one presumes that we are today living in the anthropocene, how does this challenge the doing of public theology? What is the calling of a public theologian in the anthropocene?
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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