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Digitalization and the Anthropocene [PDF]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022 Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local and planetary scales, affecting labor markets, resource use, governance ...
F. Creutzig +20 more
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On the Anthropocene formalization and the proposal by the Anthropocene Working Group [PDF]
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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Questioning the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Is the Anthropocene Anthropocentric? [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 The word ‘Anthropocene’ has been controversial scientific concept, to name a new geological epoch that situates ‘Anthropos’ or ‘Man’ as an actor changing geological structure, altering the Earth system, and also making in unpredictable planetary changes.
Kala Mahaswa Rangga, Widhianto Agung
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Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Science, 2020 Fire's growing impacts on ecosystems Fire has played a prominent role in the evolution of biodiversity and is a natural factor shaping many ecological communities.
L. Kelly +26 more
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Defaunation in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Science, 2014 We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly, human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental change. Among terrestrial vertebrates, 322 species have become extinct since 1500, and
R. Dirzo +5 more
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Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2022 .
Barla, Josef, Von Verschuer, Franziska
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Learning in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2021 While the precautionary principle may have offered a sound basis for managing environmental risk in the Holocene, the depth and width of the Anthropocene have made precaution increasingly untenable. Not only have many ecosystems already been damaged beyond natural recovery, achieving a sustainable long-term global trajectory now seem to require ever ...
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Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene [PDF]
npj Urban Sustainability, 2021 Key insights on needs in urban regional governance - Global urbanization (the increasing concentration in urban settlements of the increasing world population), is a driver and accelerator of shifts in diversity, new cross-scale interactions, decoupling from ecological processes, increasing risk and exposure to shocks.
Thomas Elmqvist +20 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 +20 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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