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The Anthropocene: an Australasian perspective and survey. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In 2000, Crutzen and Stoermer suggested that the Holocene (the geological period of time since 11,700 years ago: Walker et al., 2009) had finished and that humanity had now entered the “Anthropocene”. As summarised by Steffen et al.
Lowe, David J., Bostock, Helen C.
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Estimating Speed Error of Commercial Radar Tracking to Inform Whale–Ship Strike Mitigation Efforts

open access: yesSensors
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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Glacial geomorphology of the Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica

open access: yesJournal 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   +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)

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
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DISCIPLINING THE ANTHROPOCENE

open access: yesHistory and Theory, 2022
ABSTRACTIn this review essay, I examine Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz's The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. As indicated by the book's subtitle, the authors stress the necessity of approaching the Anthropocene from a multidisciplinary perspective as opposed to an interdisciplinary one. I consider how the authors do
openaire   +3 more sources

Climate impacts on tree growth in a Neotropical high mountain forest of the Peruvian Andes

open access: yesiForest - 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spectres of the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2019
Florian Maderspacher introduces the Anthropocene special issue.
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Relational Entanglements in the Anthropocene Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Understanding the Anthropocene in island environments means looking at the emotional entanglements between island populations and their metropolitan diasporas in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the United ...
Brown Pulu, Teena   +3 more
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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
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Algae and oxygen, humans and carbon: A Precambrian analogue for the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In 2003 Paul Crutzen and Will Steffen asserted that across Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history no analogue could be found for the Anthropocene. An analogue can, however, be located in the dim Precambrian past when, through oxygenic photosynthesis ...
Carson, James Taylor
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