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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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The development of Anthropocene Awareness Scale. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe 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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Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 2011 The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The
Jan Zalasiewicz +2 more
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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, and power relationships.
Creutzig, F +20 more
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Symbiosis and the Anthropocene [PDF]
Symbiosis, 2021 AbstractRecent human activity has profoundly transformed Earth biomes on a scale and at rates that are unprecedented. Given the central role of symbioses in ecosystem processes, functions, and services throughout the Earth biosphere, the impacts of human-driven change on symbioses are critical to understand.
Erik F. Y. Hom, Alexandra S. Penn
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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +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 +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 +5 more
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