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Spheroidal Carbonaceous Fly Ash Particles Provide a Globally Synchronous Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2015 Human impacts on Earth are now so great that they have led to the concept of a new geological epoch defined by this global human influence: the Anthropocene. While not universally accepted, the term is increasingly popular and widely used.
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Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds [PDF]
, 2021 The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress ...
Pugh, J., Chandler, D.
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, 2019 "The idea of the Anthropocene often generates an overwhelming sense of abjection or apathy. It occupies the imagination as a set of circumstances that counterpose individual human actors against ungraspable scales and impossible odds.
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Forestry in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Science, 2015 Human activity has had enormous effects on the species composition of floras and faunas, creating new ecological biomes worldwide. A principal challenge in forestry research and conservation is how to deal with these novel ecosystems. Most attention to this phenomenon is centered on the negative effects of species introductions and the need to stem the
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Storytelling : From the early Anthropocene to the good or the bad Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines whether the Anthropocene can be a helpful metaphor for holistic understandings of human impacts on the Earth. I argue that for this, splitting the Anthropocene into several consecutive stages would be helpful, and suggest a multistage
Jan Kunnas, Kunnas, Jan,, Kunnas, Jan
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Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II [PDF]
Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures.
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Mapping the Anthropocene and tour-ism [PDF]
, 2016 The Anthropocene originates from natural science, but the concept has during a relatively short period of time managed to spread into other domains. As this volume shows, the time has now also come to the field of tourism studies.
Gren, Martin,
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Three galleries of the anthropocene [PDF]
, 2014 This paper considers three ‘galleries’ that explore the Anthropocene in cultural ways, and theimplications of the Anthropocene idea for cultural institutions and heritage.
Robin, Libby +5 more
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A New Keyword in the Museum: Exhibiting the Anthropocene
Museum & Society, 2021 Since 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene has moved from its geologic field of origin into numerous other academic disciplines and into the world of museums.
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Global Governance in the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2021 © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In the Anthropocene, one of the greatest challenges is to find more effective instruments and institutions of global governance.
Bosselmann, K
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