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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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THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE PLANET
History and Theory, 2023 ABSTRACTDipesh Chakrabarty's The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is, in three respects, far more than a synthesis of over a decade of pioneering conceptual work aimed at making sense of the Anthropocene/planetary predicament and its implications for historical understanding.
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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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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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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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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Aim Climatic changes throughout the Pleistocene have strongly modified species distributions. We examine how these range shifts have affected the genetic diversity of a montane butterfly species and whether the genetic diversity in the extant populations
Melissa Minter +7 more
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Comparative Literature: East & West, 2022 Dipesh Chakraborty and Kathleen D Morrison engage in provincializing the Anthropocene to decenter the grasp of the idea that Anthropocene is an outcome of European industrial phase that enhanced socio-economic growth worldwide, thereby revealing the ...
Barnashree Khasnobis
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The Anthropocene Review, 2023 We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which one will be recommended as the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point ...
C. Waters +3 more
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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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Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2023 The Anthropocene is characterized by accelerating change and global challenges of increasing complexity. Inspired by what some have called a polycrisis, we explore whether the human trajectory of increasing complexity and influence on the Earth system ...
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen +12 more
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