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Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This perspective provides a reflective account of our personal experiences as African professors and lecturers in diverse fields of environmental sciences encountering the urban Anthropocene. Here, we explain the nature of the unprecedented, potent and hidden changes in our lived environments.
Aliyu Salisu Barau, Halima Abdulkadir Idris, Muhammad Nuraddeen Danjuma, Murtala Uba Mohammed, Abdulaziz Hassan, Amina Sheikh Abdullahi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

100 years of monitoring in the Swiss National Park reveals overall decreasing rock glacier velocities

Communications Earth & Environment
The rock glaciers of the Swiss National Park were the first in the world where in-situ measurements of surface displacement were undertaken, starting with the pioneering work of Chaix in 1918.
Alberto Muñoz-Torrero Manchado, Simon Allen, Alessandro Cicoira, Samuel Wiesmann, Ruedi Haller, Markus Stoffel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Doing public theology in the anthropocene towards life-creating theology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
If one presumes that we are today living in the anthropocene, how does this challenge the doing of public theology? What is the calling of a public theologian in the anthropocene?
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review and summarize diverse components of a catchment that can be monitored after wildfire to assess the geomorphic resilience of the river corridor in semiarid regions. We distinguish upland portions of river catchments from river corridors.
Ellen Wohl, Shayla Triantafillou, Alex Thornton‐Dunwoody, Connor Mertz, Katie Larkin, William Keenan, Steven Griffin, Dylan Davis, Lindsey Blehm   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Form, science, and narrative in the anthropocene [PDF]

, 2019
A significant strand of contemporary fiction engages with scientific models that highlight a constitutive interdependency between humanity and material realities such as the climate or the geological history of our planet.
Caracciolo, Marco
core   +2 more sources

Retrospective image analysis for long‐term demography using Google Earth imagery

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
We demonstrate that high‐resolution Google Earth imagery, combined with minimal field validation, enables retrospective tracking of individual invasive plants. The image shows one of the monitored individuals of Opuntia sp. in Greece. Our approach reveals long‐term demographic patterns, recruitment dynamics, and spatial expansion without continuous ...
Erola Fenollosa, Garrett Cohen, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediterranean cyclones are a substantial cause of damaging floods in Corsica

Communications Earth & Environment
Cyclones, whether tropical, extratropical, or of Mediterranean origin, play a crucial role in the Earth’s climate system, affecting environments and populations through strong winds, heavy rainfall, and flooding.
Yihua Zhong, Sébastien Guillet, Christophe Corona, Adrien Favillier, Juan Antonio Ballesteros Cánovas, Frédéric Huneau, Jiazhi Qie, Markus Stoffel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feminist Geopolitics: Material States [PDF]

, 2017
No abstract ...
Clark, Nigel, Dixon, Deborah P., Fluri, Jennifer L., Mills, Sarah, Tyner, James   +4 more
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Understanding Climate Change Education Practices in Kalimantan Through Exploratory Field Research With Local Voices

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is based on a study that examines the practices and perspectives of selected educational actors in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on climate change education. The region is highly affected by climate crises and holds global relevance for mitigation due to its tropical forests and peatlands.
Carla Hermanussen, Saritha Kittie Uda
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas De Pencier [PDF]

, 2019
Review of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas De Pencier\u27s ...
Shaw, David
core   +1 more source