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Governing in the Anthropocene: What Future Systems Thinking in Practice? [PDF]

, 2016
The revealing and concealing features of the metaphor ‘earth as Anthropocene’ are explored in an inquiry that asks: In the Anthropocene what possible futures emerge for systems thinking in practice? Framing choice, so important yet so poorly realised, is
Alstyne, Armitage, Ashby, Baird, Baird, Bateson, Beer, Biermann, Bommel, Boulding, Checkland, Checkland, Checkland, Checkland, Cook, Crutzen, Hubert, Ison, Ison, Ison, Ison, Ison, Ison, Ison, Ison, Jasanoff, Jones, Lakoff, Lakoff, Lakoff, Lakoff, Larsen, LEARN, Lourdes Melo Zurita, Malm, McClintock, McClintock, Meadows, Micklethwait, Moll, Norgaard, Open University, Powell, Russell, Russell, Sankaran, Schön, Steirlin, Steyaert, Stowell, Straw, Thompson, Tingle, Tsien, Westberg, Wiener   +55 more
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Coming into the Anthropocene [PDF]

, 2014
This essay reviews Professor Jonathan Cannon’s Environment in the Balance. Cannon’s book admirably analyzes the Supreme Court’s uptake of, or refusal of, the key commitments of the environmental-law revolution of the early 1970s.
Chey, Chan Oeurn, Liu, Xianjie, Masood, Ansar, Nur, Omer, Rao, K. V., Riazanova, A., Willander, Magnus   +6 more
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Limited impacts of climatic conditions on commercial oil palm yields in Malaysian plantations

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022
Background Oil palm is a key driver of deforestation, but increasing yields in existing plantations could help meet rising global demands, while avoiding further conversion of natural habitat.
Susannah Fleiss, Colin J. McClean, Henry King, Jane K. Hill   +3 more
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“Till the muddle in my mind have cleared awa”: can we help shape policy using systems modelling? [PDF]

, 2016
This paper considers how some well-documented deficiencies of mental models make it difficult to create effective policies, and suggests that systems modelling can begin to address this issue.
Adams, Adhikari, Ashby, Attenborough, Axelrod, Barber, Barnabè, Black, Booth-Sweeney, Bradley, Bryant, Carrington, Carson, Checkland, Checkland, Checkland, Conant, Crutzen, Crutzen, Doyle, Doyle, Dörner, Dörner, Fechner, Feduzi, Forrester, Forrester, Forrester, Forrester, Forrester, Forrester, French, Hammond, Hardin, Hoffman, Howard, Jackson, Jackson, Jameson, Keys, Kim, King, Kirby, Klein, Klein, Kolbert, Kovbach, Kremkow, Kunzig, Lane, Lane, Lane, Lane, Lane, Lane, Lane, Layder, Lenton, Lewandowsky, Lezak, Linstone, MacKenzie, Malm, Mansell, Maruyma, Mason, Meadows, Meadows, Merton, Morton, Moxnes, Moxnes, Murray, Nissen, Nutt, Pfeffer, Pfeffer, Plous, Prebble, Rennell, Ritzer, Rockström, Rome, Rosenhead, Rosenhead, Rothkopf, Sims, Smyth, Steiguer, Sterman, Sun, Tollefson, Tversky, Tversky, Vallery-Radot, Vennix, Wackernagel, Wagenaar, Wagenaar, Waters, Weick, Weizsaecker   +101 more
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Estimating Speed Error of Commercial Radar Tracking to Inform Whale–Ship Strike Mitigation Efforts

Sensors
Vessel speed reduction measures are a management tool used to reduce the risk of whale–ship strikes and mitigate their impacts. Large ships and other commercial vessels are required to publicly share tracking information, including their speed, via the ...
Samantha Cope King, Brendan Tougher, Virgil Zetterlind   +2 more
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Glacial geomorphology of the Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica

Journal of Maps, 2019
Several regions of tropical America show imprints of past glacial activity. These relict landforms can support the understanding of past climate conditions, such as during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and the implications that these paleoclimatic ...
Adolfo Quesada-Román, Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas, Markus Stoffel, José Juan Zamorano-Orozco   +3 more
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Projecting utopian thought: The conceptualization of the “good Anthropocene” in Kim Stanley Robinson’s "The Ministry for the Future" (2020)

Ilha do Desterro, 2023
While the Anthropocene has traditionally been associated with apocalyptic images, the notion of the good Anthropocene, widely criticized since its origin, has emerged as its utopian counterpart.
Ana Tejero-Marín
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Climate impacts on tree growth in a Neotropical high mountain forest of the Peruvian Andes

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2020
Global warming can jeopardize important ecosystem functions and services in sensitive Neotropical mountain areas. However, untangling the relative roles of natural climate variability pattern from current global warming trends still represent a major ...
Rodríguez-Morata C, Madrigal-González J, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA   +3 more
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Biodiversity arks in the Anthropocene

Regional Sustainability, 2021
The Anthropocene proposal suggested that the Earth may have entered a new geological epoch, in which human activity and climate change are influencing the environment at global scale.
Honghu Meng, Xiaoyang Gao, Yigang Song, Guanlong Cao, Jie Li   +4 more
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Justice‐centred climate change education and territory

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In a globalised world, education faces challenges that go far beyond professional training, where social responsibility and the inclusion of heterogeneous communities and territories in all levels of education have become a greater focus of the university and of scientific research, setting the stage for more inclusive public policies. Greater
Lennin Florez‐Leiva, Meri Ruiz Cabezas, Cae Rodrigues, Ivan Sánchez Fontalvo   +3 more
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