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Obligations in the Anthropocene [PDF]
The Anthropocene is a term described by Earth Systems Science to capture the recent rupture in the history of the Earth where human action has acquired the power to alter the Earth System as a whole. While normative conclusions cannot be logically derived from this descriptive fact, this paper argues that law and philosophy ought to develop responses ...
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A New Keyword in the Museum: Exhibiting the Anthropocene
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.
Lotte Isager+2 more
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Sihailongwan Maar Lake, located in Northeast China, is a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for demarcation of the Anthropocene.
Yongming Han+34 more
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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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A phase-space description of the Earth System in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Based on a dynamic systems approach to the Landau-Ginzburg model, a phase space description of the Earth System (ES) in the transition to the Anthropocene is presented. It is shown that, for a finite amount of human-driven change, there is a stable equilibrium state that is an attractor of trajectories in the system's phase space and corresponds to a ...
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Politics of Time and Mourning in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. The Anthropocene highlights interconnections between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ non-linear temporal processes.
Rosine Kelz, Henrike Knappe
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Governing in the Anthropocene: What Future Systems Thinking in Practice? [PDF]
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
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The geography of publishing in the Anthropocene
One key aspect of the Anthropocene is the inherent disparities between the Global North and the Global South. These differences manifest in the causes and impacts of pollution, climate change, and species extinctions, but are they also present in the ...
Megan A. Hazlett+3 more
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How Anthropocene Might Save the World: Metamorphosis
The Anthropocene has created a new cartography. It moves between the rejection of scientific disciplines, overcoming dualism and a change of coordinates with which to interpret the world.
Jordi López Ortega
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What is Natural about Natural Capital during the Anthropocene? [PDF]
The concept of natural capital denotes a rich variety of natural processes, such as ecosystems, that produce economically valuable goods and services.
DesRoches, C. Tyler
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