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Opening Aesthetics

open access: yesESPES
The ongoing collapse of the Earth System’s functionality is fundamentally reshaping our thinking about nature and the conditions of existence on Earth.
Adam Lovasz, Mark Horvath
doaj   +1 more source

A dramaturgy of uncertainty: Transdisciplinary manoeuvres across forestry and theatre

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The uncertainties of climate change mean that forestry adaptation strategies are often complex and contested. Research has suggested that there is an interest in the forestry sector for facilitated dialogue about uncertainty (de Pellegrin Llorente et al., 2023).
Rachel Clive   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using a social‐ecological macrosystems framework to understand how human activities alter ecological synchrony

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or ...
Yiluan Song   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergy in the systemic approach to architectural performance: the integral multi- and cross-layered agencies in eco-systemic generative design processes of the post-anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article integrates a series of diverse projects that together exemplify and interpret the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) that has been developed by the author.
Davidova, Marie
core   +5 more sources

After Humanity: Science Fiction after Extinction in Kurt Vonnegut and Clifford D. Simak [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article takes up the question of whether and to what extent humanistic values can survive confrontation with the deep time of the Anthropocene, specifically with the inevitability of human extinction.
Canavan, Gerry
core   +1 more source

Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers

open access: yesRiver 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   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’esperienza allargata. Riflessioni sull’Antropocene [PDF]

open access: yesS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene represents the emergence of a problematization that calls into question the whole system of modernity, which is to be understood as a combination of ...
SALOTTOLO, DELIO
doaj  

Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
wiley   +1 more source

Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
Anthropogenic activity is now recognised as having profoundly and permanently altered the Earth system, suggesting we have entered a human-dominated geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
Chris S. M. Turney   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Impact of Polystyrene Microplastic Beads on Male Gonads of the Marine Mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plastic, with its remarkable versatility and numerous applications, has greatly benefited humanity. However, its extreme resistance to natural degradation means it persists in the environment for long periods, causing global environmental problems.
Teresa Chianese   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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