Taking the moral authorship of children and youth seriously in times of the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2022 Karin Sporre +2 more
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Managing the Threat of Subsidized Predators for a Threatened Shorebird
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Subsidized predators—native predators that have become more common due to human activities—challenge the persistence of many at‐risk prey species and require creative solutions beyond lethal predator control. In an 8‐year study, we placed small wire cages over western snowy plover nests that allow passage of plovers, but not their predators, and ...
R. R. Swaisgood +4 more
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Global Warming and Mass Extinctions Associated With Large Igneous Province Volcanism
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 83-102., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
David P. G. Bond, Yadong Sun
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Beyond Prometheus: Creativity, discourse, ideology and the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2018 This article considers the strange confluence of the rhetoric of creativity and commerce at key points across the “Great Acceleration”. It argues that although the idea of creativity has its most common contemporary expression in art, it does not in fact
Nelson, Camilla
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Enjeux d’une conceptualisation éducative de l’Anthropocène à partir des ruptures biogéophysiques
Recherches en ÉducationGiven the scale of global challenges (climate change, collapse of ecosystems, weakening of global food security, migration, etc.), the Earth system sciences are increasingly in demand, as is the concept of the Anthropocene.
Nathanaël Wallenhorst
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty +5 more
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Sense of Place in the Anthropocene: A students-teaching-students course [PDF]
, 2019 Contemporary environmental education is tasked with the acknowledgement of the Anthropocene - an informal but ubiquitous term for the current geological epoch which arose from anthropogenic changes to the Earth system - and its accompanying socio ...
Gaspero-Beckstrom, Giannina Sol +1 more
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