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After Humanity: Science Fiction after Extinction in Kurt Vonnegut and Clifford D. Simak [PDF]

, 2016
This article takes up the question of whether and to what extent humanistic values can survive confrontation with the deep time of the Anthropocene, specifically with the inevitability of human extinction.
Canavan, Gerry
core   +1 more source

Carbonous Concealment: Governing “Wild” Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic field research that I conducted in Houston, Texas since late 2018, I explore subterranean storage arrangements utilised by the US hydrocarbon industry. I argue that storage is vital not only to its pluri‐temporal strategies but to the outward projection of good governance.
Sean Field
wiley   +1 more source

The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval

Earth's Future
Following the recent rejection of a formal Anthropocene series/epoch by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), and its subsequent confirmation by the International Union of Geological ...
Matthew Edgeworth, Andrew M. Bauer, Erle C. Ellis, Stanley C. Finney, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Philip L. Gibbard, Mark Maslin, Dorothy J. Merritts, Michael J. C. Walker   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Earth's future in the Anthropocene: Technological interventions between piecemeal and utopian social engineering [PDF]

, 2014
Stefan Schäfer, Harald Stelzer, Achim Maas, M. G. Lawrence   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
wiley   +1 more source

All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

, 2012
Erle C. Ellis, Erica C. Antill, Holger Kreft   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Rivers of the Anthropocene? [PDF]

, 2014
N. LeRoy Poff
openalex   +1 more source

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene by Kerry Oliver-Smith [PDF]

, 2019
Review of Kerry Oliver-Smith\u27s The World to Come: Art in the Age of the ...
Qiu, Tracy
core   +1 more source

Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Many policymakers are unwilling, or think that it is infeasible, to perform comprehensive cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of programmes in social policy arenas. What principles actually underlie CBA? An understanding is necessary to assess whether other evaluation methods are close enough to CBA to provide useful information on social efficiency ...
Aidan R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Shape of Things to Come’: Seven Theses on the Anthropocene and Attachment

, 2012
Ben Dibley
openalex   +1 more source