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Storytelling : From the early Anthropocene to the good or the bad Anthropocene

open access: yes, 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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How High‐Performance Sports Helped Me Manage ADHD Symptoms and Boost Research Productivity

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnographic essay examines how participation in high‐performance sports became a transformative tool for managing the cognitive and emotional challenges associated with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) within the context of academic life.
Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas
wiley   +1 more source

Projecting utopian thought: The conceptualization of the “good Anthropocene” in Kim Stanley Robinson’s "The Ministry for the Future" (2020)

open access: yesIlha 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
doaj   +1 more source

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising risks of triggering irreversible and unmanageable shifts in Earth ...
J. Rockström   +21 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

open access: yes, 2015
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated broad-scale forest die-off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter drought”, an emerging characteristic of the Anthropocene—are the focus of rapidly ...
C. Allen, D. Breshears, N. McDowell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, 2022
Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain undefined.
P. Gibbard   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping the Anthropocene and tour-ism

open access: yes, 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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Ecologics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power.
Howe, Cymene
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Visibility Is Also a Form of Scientific Inequality

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract Recognition in science signals authority and helps determine which knowledge informs research agendas, funding decisions, and career trajectories. However, media coverage of awards often amplifies senior male scientists while marginalizing early‐career and female researchers, even when they receive the same distinctions.
Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas
wiley   +1 more source

Delivering resilience for people and nature in Anthropocene landscapes

open access: yesPeople and Nature
The concept of resilience is widespread in strategies for enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services, but, in practice, resilience means different things in different socio‐ecological and policy contexts and to different people.
Jack H. Hatfield   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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