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Conservation in the Anthropocene
Conservation Biology, 2011IT HAS BECOME COMMONPLACE to remark that humans are now the dominant environmental force on the Earth. The indications are strong and diverse. They range from paleontologists reaching a consensus that humans contributed to megafaunal extinctions on at least two continents, North America and Australia;1 recognition that formerly intact marine ecosystems
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Nature, 2015
Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record against the formal requirements for ...
Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Maslin
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Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record against the formal requirements for ...
Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Maslin
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The Trickster in the Anthropocene [PDF]
The Anthropocene Review, 2016 A mischievous figure from traditional cultures around the world can contribute an alternative narrative for humanity in the Anthropocene.
Thornton, T, Malhi, Y
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Science, 2019
Humboldt's fusion of science and humanism can address contemporary ...
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Humboldt's fusion of science and humanism can address contemporary ...
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2018
This chapter focuses on three key points. First, the world has changed, with destructive consequences for many, will continue to change, and will not return to situation “normal.” That is, it will not return to global temperatures or species abundance and fluctuations that fall within the kinds of background levels experienced by generations of humans.
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This chapter focuses on three key points. First, the world has changed, with destructive consequences for many, will continue to change, and will not return to situation “normal.” That is, it will not return to global temperatures or species abundance and fluctuations that fall within the kinds of background levels experienced by generations of humans.
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Technofossils of the Anthropocene
Cultural Politics, 2016From the inception of modern, petrochemical-derived synthetic plastics to the contemporary situation in which over 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year, media assemblages and plastics constitute a range of intra-actions that contribute to our understanding of contemporary material politics.
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The university in the Anthropocene
International Journal of Ethics and SystemsPurpose This paper aims to reconsider the role of universities in the context of the grand challenges of the Anthropocene era, namely, climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems collapse, growing inequalities, welfare deficiencies and social unrest.
Laszlo Zsolnai, Paul Shrivastava
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2017
One aspect of the Anthropocene, the “human-dominated geologic epoch,” that has received less attention is the estrangements it produces among the people living in its space and time. Wet-season tides began to extend to unusually high distances along the Murik coast in late 2007.
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One aspect of the Anthropocene, the “human-dominated geologic epoch,” that has received less attention is the estrangements it produces among the people living in its space and time. Wet-season tides began to extend to unusually high distances along the Murik coast in late 2007.
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