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Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism edited by Jason W. Moore [PDF]

, 2017
Review of Jason W. Moore\u27s Capitalocene or Anthropocene?
Brown, Robert M.W.
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Microbiology of the Anthropocene

Anthropocene, 2014
AbstractHuman influences on the planet's atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere are of such magnitude as to justify naming a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Different starting dates and phases have been proposed for this epoch, depending on the criteria used.
Gillings, Michael R., Paulsen, Ian T.
openaire   +2 more sources

SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
wiley   +1 more source

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark [PDF]

, 2016
Review of Timothy Clark\u27s Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold ...
Corrigan, Paul T.
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ART DECO PUBLIC GARDEN REHABILITATION

Sculpture, Monuments and Open Space, EarlyView.
Edward Hamm
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding place attachment to remote environments: An Antarctic case study

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anthropocene presents unique challenges for humanity’s relationship with remote environments. Transboundary environmental problems, such as climate change or plastics pollution, affect places that are beyond most people’s direct experience.
Katie Marx, Karen A. Alexander, Elizabeth Leane, Hanne E. F. Nielsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Missing the (tipping) point: the effect of information about climate tipping points on public risk perceptions in Norway [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics
Climate tipping points are a topic of growing interest in climate research and a frequent communication tool in the media to warn of dangerous climate change.
C. Nadeau, M. Milkoreit, T. H. Eriksen, D. O. Hessen   +3 more
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Not all Humans, Radical Criticism of the Anthropocene Narrative [PDF]

, 2020
Earth scientists have declared that we are living in “the Anthropocene,” but radical critics object to the implicit attribution of responsibility for climate disruption to all of humanity. They are right to object.
Sharp, Hasana
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Spinifex, fire, and fate

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Bushfires occur regularly in inland Australia because of the flammability of spinifex (Triodia species). Spinifex and fire are tied together by infertility: the plant is of limited palatability to consumers and accumulates into fuel. Spinifex regrows with cumulative rainfall, and fires recur every couple of decades.
Stephen Ross Morton
wiley   +1 more source

Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source