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Abstract Global change is increasing the frequency and severity of human‐wildlife interactions by pushing people and wildlife into increasingly resource‐limited shared spaces. To understand the dynamics of human‐wildlife interactions and what may constitute human‐wildlife coexistence in the Anthropocene, there is a critical need to explore the spatial,
Christine E. Wilkinson +4 more
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Conserving the evolutionary history of birds
Abstract In the midst of the sixth mass extinction, limited resources are forcing conservationists to prioritize which species and places will receive conservation action. Evolutionary distinctiveness measures the isolation of a species on its phylogenetic tree.
Christopher J. W. McClure +9 more
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Abstract In the Anthropocene, understanding the impacts of anthropogenic influence on biodiversity and behavior of vulnerable wildlife communities is increasingly relevant to effective conservation. However, comparative studies aimed at disentangling the concurrent effect of different types of human disturbance on multifaceted biodiversity and on ...
Xueyou Li +9 more
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Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation
Abstract The unlimited economic growth that fuels capitalism's metabolism has profoundly transformed a large portion of Earth. The resulting environmental destruction has led to an unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss. Following large‐scale losses of habitats and species, it was recognized that biodiversity is crucial to maintaining functional ...
Joan Moranta +5 more
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An agenda for research and action toward diverse and just futures for life on Earth
Abstract Decades of research and policy interventions on biodiversity have insufficiently addressed the dual issues of biodiversity degradation and social justice. New approaches are therefore needed. We devised a research and action agenda that calls for a collective task of revisiting biodiversity toward the goal of sustaining diverse and just ...
C. Wyborn +21 more
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The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene
ABSTRACT Recent anthropological attention to more‐than‐human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to ...
Elana Resnick
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Focus and social contagion of environmental organization advocacy on Twitter
Abstract Agriculture, overexploitation, and urbanization remain the major threats to biodiversity in the Anthropocene. The attention these threats garner among leading environmental nongovernmental organizations (eNGOs) and the wider public is critical in fostering the political will necessary to reverse biodiversity declines worldwide.
Daniel Barrios‐O'Neill
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Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada
Abstract Extinction rates are expected to increase during the Anthropocene. Current extinction rates of plants and many animals remain unknown. We quantified extinctions among the vascular flora of the continental United States and Canada since European settlement. We compiled data on apparently extinct species by querying plant conservation databases,
Wesley M. Knapp +15 more
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Antropogeniczny wpływ na przyrodę w koncepcji Nikołaja Fiodorowa
Artykuł jest wstępnym rozpoznaniem antropocenowego „języka”, w jakim przemawia do współczesnego odbiorcy dzieło Nikołaja Fiodorowa – Filozofia wspólnego czynu.
Justyna Tymieniecka-Suchanek
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Międzyskalowe języki antropocenu
Antropocen przekroczył dyscyplinarne granice nauk przyrodniczych, rozbudzając debaty w ramach szeroko pojętej humanistyki, zmuszając „nas” do myślenia inaczej niż dotąd. Jednym z wyzwań antropocenu jest kwestia skali.
Monika Rogowska-Stangret
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