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Anthropocene: To Be or not to be?

, 2020
The growing interest related to the proposal of formal definition of a new geological period that has being called “Anthropocene” has introduced a buzzing dynamics in the scientific community, but its conduct is perhaps due to various interests involved in a discussion that has long surpassed the contours of the so-called “
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Allegories of the Anthropocene [PDF]

, 2019
In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature.
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Recommendations for built marine infrastructure that supports natural habitats

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
The extent of built marine infrastructure—from energy infrastructure and ports to artificial reefs and aquaculture—is increasing globally. The rise in built structure coverage is concurrent with losses and degradation of many natural habitats. Although historically associated with net negative impacts on natural systems, built infrastructure—with ...
Avery B Paxton, Sarah E Lester, Carter S Smith, Siddharth Narayan, Christine Angelini, Brendan J Runde, Megan I Saunders, Rachel K Gittman, Jacob Allgeier, Maria L Vozzo, D'amy N Steward, Hayley R Lemoine, Stephanie R Valdez, Rebecca L Morris, Douglas P Nowacek, William Seaman, Patrick N Halpin, Brian R Silliman   +17 more
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Hazards and disasters in the Anthropocene: some critical reflections for the future

Geoscience Letters, 2018
The arrival of the Anthropocene presents many challenges—both theoretical and practical. Scholars in different disciplines, practitioners, the public and others, are all considering the meaning of the Anthropocene and how its arrival affects their ways ...
Dale Dominey-Howes
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Fostering Children's Self‐Efficacy Through Nature Education: Insights From a Wildlife Education Program in Rural China 通过自然教育培养儿童的自我效能感:中国乡村自然课项目的启示

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This study identified self‐efficacy as a crucial outcome of nature education, with the potential for achieving long‐term conservation goals. Using a mixed‐methods design, we evaluated the effect of a wildlife course implemented in ten rural elementary schools in China, which significantly increased students' self‐efficacy, and also contributed to pro ...
Zhijian Liang, Lin Chen, Junying Ren, Changning Liu, Kaiwen Zhou, Tien Ming Lee, Sifan Hu   +6 more
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A supply-limited torrent that does not feel the heat of climate change

Nature Communications
Debris-flow activity in the Alps is anticipated to undergo pronounced changes in response to a warming climate. Yet, a fundamental challenge in comprehensively assessing changes in process activity is the systematic lack of long-term observational debris-
Jiazhi Qie, Adrien Favillier, Frédéric Liébault, Juan Antonio Ballesteros Cánovas, Jérôme Lopez-Saez, Sébastien Guillet, Loïc Francon, Yihua Zhong, Markus Stoffel, Christophe Corona   +9 more
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Education in the Anthropocene: From Theorists towards Young Climate Activists

Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia, 2021
This paper continues the scientific discussion on education in the Anthropocene and focuses on the complexity of future education from the learner’s perspective.
Sandra Kairė
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Carbon footprint for farms in the Czech Republic: a benchmark‐based assessment

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Climate change is a pressing environmental and social challenge that demands effective monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One widely adopted approach for this is quantifying the carbon footprint (CF). Given that agriculture is a major contributor to GHG emissions, we have developed a comprehensive framework for CF ...
Jan Kovanda, Svatava Janoušková, Tomáš Hák, Viktor Třebický, Petr Koňata   +4 more
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Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene.

PNAS Nexus, 2022
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As
J. Shuman, J. Balch, R. Barnes, P. Higuera, Christopher I. Roos, D. Schwilk, E. N. Stavros, T. Banerjee, M. Bela, J. Bendix, S. Bertolino, S. Bililign, K. Bladon, P. Brando, R. Breidenthal, B. Buma, D. Calhoun, L. Carvalho, M. Cattau, K. Cawley, S. Chandra, M. Chipman, Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, E. Conlisk, J. Coop, A. Cullen, K. Davis, A. Dayalu, Fernando de Sales, Megan R. Dolman, L. Ellsworth, S. Franklin, Christopher H. Guiterman, M. Hamilton, E. Hanan, W. Hansen, S. Hantson, Brian J. Harvey, A. Holz, Tao Huang, M. Hurteau, N. Ilangakoon, Megan K. Jennings, Charles Jones, A. Klimaszewski-Patterson, L. Kobziar, J. Kominoski, B. Kosović, M. Krawchuk, P. Laris, J. Leonard, S. Loría‐Salazar, M. Lucash, H. Mahmoud, E. Margolis, T. Maxwell, J. McCarty, D. Mcwethy, Rachel S. Meyer, J. Miesel, W. K. Moser, R. C. Nagy, D. Niyogi, Hannah M. Palmer, A. Pellegrini, B. Poulter, Kevin Robertson, A. Rocha, M. Sadegh, F. Santos, F. Scordo, J. Sexton, A. Sharma, Alistair Smith, A. Soja, C. Still, T. Swetnam, A. Syphard, M. Tingley, A. Tohidi, A. Trugman, Merritt Turetsky, J. Varner, Yuhang Wang, T. Whitman, S. Yelenik, Xuan Zhang   +86 more
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The Horror of the Anthropocene

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, 2018
In this essay I explore the profound and specific fastening of horror to the Anthropocene by considering both scientific and philosophical responses to our contemporary moment. I then take Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as a case study of the Anthropocene horror story, analysed in relation to the four stages of horror as defined by John Clute.
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