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Do we have time for democracy? Climate action and the problem of time in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Mads Ejsing, Lars Tønder, Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen, Janus Hansen
The urgency of climate change has brought democracy to a critical juncture. Existing democratic systems struggle to address the pressing time frames required for effective climate action. This article explores a fundamental shift in temporal orientation caused by climate change. Democracy’s linear and progressive image of time clashes with the expanding scales of temporality, encompassing both planetary
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From planetary scenarios to planetary sensing: Models, observations, and political legibility The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Drew Pendergrass
This paper explores the political uses of images generated by Earth System science. It argues that images of possible climate futures, maps of potential worlds of heatwaves and wildfires, are made legible to policymakers by an alliance with a class of climate-economy models that associate scientific estimates of climate impacts with a prescribed international policy and technology mix. While environmental
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Why the Anthropocene Epoch is a more pertinent concept than the Anthropocene event for understanding ongoing Earth system transition The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Abhik Chakraborty
While the Anthropocene Working Group proposed in 2023 to formally recognize the Anthropocene Epoch with a lower boundary ~1950, the International Commission on Stratigraphy subsequently decided to reject the proposal. Instead, some scientists have argued, the Anthropocene is better understood as an ‘event’ with no temporal boundary. This article argues that the Anthropocene as an event idea is deeply
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Unearthing slow violence in the Anthropocene: A study of myth and ethics in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Priyanka Bera
The planetary crisis, emerging out of the Anthropocene, significantly contributes to a continuous tension between human needs and desire; and Nature’s capacity to accommodate those by subsidizing the fundamental balance between human and non-human welfare. These long-term invisible phenomena of extreme anthropocentric metamorphoses not only endanger the culture and ethnicity of the indigenous community
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From oxen to tourists: The management history of subalpine grasslands in the Sudeten mountains and its significance for nature conservation The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Péter Szabó, Přemysl Bobek, Lydie Dudová, Radim Hédl
Grasslands above the timberline in European high mountains, such as the Alps, have been used as summer pasture for millennia, creating diverse ecosystems of high conservation value. However, the historical ecology of natural grasslands in middle mountains is much less known. We combined archival and palaeoecological sources to understand the management history of subalpine grasslands in the Hrubý Jeseník
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Is incoherence required for sustainability? The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Olivier Hamant
Unstoppable feedback loops and tipping points in socio-ecological systems are the main threats to sustainability. These behaviors have been extensively studied, notably to predict, and arguably deviate, dead-end trajectories. A core group of repeated and predictable patterns in all systems, called systems archetypes, has been identified. For instance, the archetype of escalation is made of two positive
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Holocene utopias and dystopias: Views of the Holocene in the Anthropocene and their impact on defining the Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Matthew Conte, Jennifer Bates
In delineating the Anthropocene, the Holocene is being redefined as the formative epoch of human development leading to the Anthropocene. This has led to a diversity of views of the Holocene and Holocene humanity in the Anthropocene, the extremes of which may be described as “Holocene utopianism” and “Holocene dystopianism.” The former views the Holocene as a solution to the predicament of the Anthropocene
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Institutionalism, the corporation, and the climate crisis The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Gregory Ferguson-Cradler
The transition to a zero-emissions world entails vast political economic restructuring. How resources are mobilized, what sorts of technological infrastructures are constructed, who funds, controls and has claim to profits from investments contributing to the green transition will shape political economies for generations to come. This article suggests that early 20th-century American institutionalism
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Human, all too human? Anthropocene narratives, posthumanisms, and the problem of “post-anthropocentrism” The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Jacob Vangeest
What role do contemporary narratives and counter-narratives play in policy regarding the Anthropocene crisis? Given the centrality of the anthropos in the Anthropocene, what conditions might make possible a “post-anthropocentric” or “non-anthropocentric” narrative? Tracing the production of both dominant and counter-narratives, the struggle for narrative power centers the role of the anthropos in the
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The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Benjamin Johnson
The striking influence humans are exerting on their environment will likely result in the stabilization of a new climatic equilibrium of the Anthropocene, possibly without historical precedent. Many conceivable outcomes would reshape the planet’s biodiversity. If the Earth-human interaction is to endure in its current state, which still shares characteristics with the Holocene, one necessary development
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Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest: Moving beyond ‘disturbance’ and ‘landscape domestication’ with concepts from African worldviews The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 James Angus Fraser, Ariane Cosiaux, Gretchen Walters, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei, Patrick Addo-Fordjour, James Fairhead, Paulin Kialo, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Richard Oslisly
How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance and landscape domestication. From the perspective of disturbance, humans – whether ancient or modern – are a priori negative for tropical forests, outside of and alien to nature. From this view, the Anthropocene is a planetary scale
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Socio-ecological regime shifts in New England (USA), 1620–2020 The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 James Sedalia Peters
Relationships between nature and society are made manifest in the production of landscapes. Consequently, landscape changes indicate changes in the relationships between nature and society. Forged at regional scales over long periods of time, nature/society relationships, like natural and social systems, exhibit periods of equilibrium, stability, and incremental change that eventually give way to new
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Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas. The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Richard E Walton,Heather L Moorhouse,Lucy R Roberts,Jorge Salgado,Cai Jt Ladd,Nga Thu Do,Virginia N Panizzo,Pham Dang Tri Van,Nigel K Downes,Duc Anh Trinh,Suzanne McGowan,Sarah Taylor,Andrew Cg Henderson
Tropical river deltas, and the social-ecological systems they sustain, are changing rapidly due to anthropogenic activity and climatic change. Baseline data to inform sustainable management options for resilient deltas is urgently needed and palaeolimnology (reconstructing past conditions from lake or wetland deposits) can provide crucial long-term perspectives needed to identify drivers and rates
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Exploring theoretical conditions for a steady-state global economy: A simulation model The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Igor Mautinović, Robert E Ulanowicz, Domagoj Vlah
We use a simulation model to explore the theoretical impact of technology, recycling, household propensity for material consumption, and nature conservation policies on economic growth and possible...
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Quantitative and dynamic scenario analysis of SDGs outcomes upon global sustainability 1990–2050 The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Jason Phillips
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the keystone policy framework for countries to achieve sustainable development. However, in fulfilling the SDGs, there is no definitive evaluation of...
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In memory of Will Steffen, 1947–2023 The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Frank Oldfield
Will Steffen’s death has prompted the present article that attempts to summarise the many aspects of his contribution to our understanding of Earth System science, his role as an outstanding leader...
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Why landfill deposits are a distinguishing feature of the Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Magdalena Daria Vaverková, Eugeniusz Koda
The Anthropocene is generally defined as a postulated new geological epoch, which, according to various authors, began in the 20th century. The postulated Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by a d...
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Evidence and experiment: Curating contexts of Anthropocene geology The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Christoph Rosol, Georg N Schäfer, Simon D Turner, Colin N Waters, Martin J Head, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carlina Rossée, Jürgen Renn, Katrin Klingan, Bernd M Scherer
Together with research teams from around the world, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) has been meticulously quantifying and scrutinizing the global stratigraphic imprint of human activities, the...
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The Palmer ice core as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Elizabeth R Thomas, Diana O Vladimirova, Dieter R Tetzner, Daniel B Emanuelsson, Jack Humby, Simon D Turner, Neil L Rose, Sarah L Roberts, Pawel Gaca, Andrew B Cundy
The remote Antarctic continent, distant from human industrial activity, should be one of the last places on Earth to capture Anthropogenic change. Hence, stratigraphic evidence of pollution and nuc...
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Abundance and absence: Human-microbial co-evolution in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Aaron Bradshaw
Human-microbe relations have undergone a profound shift over the past 100 years. The discovery of antibiotics, increasing levels of pollution, and urban and agricultural intensification have led to...
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The complex relationships between economic inequality and biodiversity: A scoping review The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Ida Kubiszewski, Caroline Ward, Kate E. Pickett, Robert Costanza
Biodiversity change and increasing within-country economic inequalities represent two of the greatest global challenges of the Anthropocene. The most marginalized in society are often the most vuln...
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North Flinders Reef (Coral Sea, Australia) Porites sp. corals as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Jens Zinke, Neal E Cantin, Kristine L DeLong, Kylie Palmer, Arnoud Boom, Irka Hajdas, Nicolas Duprey, Alfredo Martínez-García, Neil L Rose, Sarah L Roberts, Handong Yang, Lucy R Roberts, Andrew B Cundy, Pawel Gaca, James Andy Milton, Grace Frank, Adam Cox, Sue Sampson, Genevieve Tyrrell, Molly Agg, Simon D Turner
Corals are unique in the suite of proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) archives, as living organisms that produce aragonite exoskeletons preserved in the geolog...
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The flower garden banks Siderastrea siderea coral as a candidate global boundary stratotype section and point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Kristine L DeLong, Kylie Palmer, Amy J Wagner, Mudith M Weerabaddana, Niall Slowey, Achim D Herrmann, Nicolas Duprey, Alfredo Martínez-García, Jonathan Jung, Irka Hajdas, Neil L Rose, Sarah L Roberts, Lucy R Roberts, Andrew B Cundy, Pawel Gaca, J Andrew Milton, Handong Yang, Simon D Turner, Chun-Yuan Huang, Chuan-Chou Shen, Jens Zinke
The proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) candidate site of West Flower Garden Bank (27.8762°N, 93.8147°W) is an open ocean location in the Gulf of Mexico with a...
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What does it mean that all is aflame? Non-axial Buddhist inspiration for an Anthropocene ontology The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Tom Hannes, Gunter Bombaerts
Bruno Latour’s “practical climatoscepticism” expresses our moral inhibition with respect to the climate crisis. In spite of Clive Hamilton’s claim that the Anthropocene condition requires us to be ...
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A brief review of the coupled human-Earth system modeling: Current state and challenges The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Junwei Tan, Qingyun Duan, Cunde Xiao, Chunyang He, Xiaodong Yan
Human activities have profound impacts on climate and ecosystems via fossil fuel use and land-use changes, and environmental changes in turn affect human society. Due to strong bidirectional links ...
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The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Francine MG McCarthy, Timothy Patterson, Martin J Head, Nicholas L Riddick, Brian F Cumming, Paul B Hamilton, Michael FJ Pisaric, Cale Gushulak, Peter R Leavitt, Krysten M Lafond, Brendan Llew-Williams, Matthew Marshall, Autumn Heyde, Paul M Pilkington, Joshua Moraal, Joseph I Boyce, Nawaf A Nasser, Carling Walsh, Monica Garvie, Sarah Roberts, Neil L Rose, Andy B Cundy, Pawel Gaca, Andy Milton, Irka
An annually laminated succession in Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada is proposed as the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene as a series/epoch with a base dated at...
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Anthropogenic life strategy of plants The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Jan Winkler, Magdalena Daria Vaverková, Ladislav Havel
Plants can adapt to different conditions. They use different life strategies which allow them to adapt and survive. While humans and human civilization cause changes in the Earth’s ecology, only ne...
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Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Colin N Waters, Simon D Turner, Jan Zalasiewicz, Martin J Head
We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which one will be recommended...
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Rules of thumb, from Holocene to Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Roope O Kaaronen, Mikael A Manninen, Jussi T Eronen
This article reviews how simple heuristics – ‘rules of thumb’ – have guided human adaptation and the evolution of complex cultures. First, we argue that rules of thumb have been important catalysts...
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The San Francisco Estuary, USA as a reference section for an Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Stephen Himson, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Mary McGann, Richard England, Bruce E Jaffe, Arnoud Boom, Rachael Holmes, Sue Sampson, Cerin Pye, Juan Carlos Berrio, Genevieve Tyrrell, Ian P Wilkinson, Neil Rose, Pawel Gaca, Andrew Cundy
A San Francisco Estuary core was analysed at high resolution to assess its component stratigraphic signatures of the Anthropocene in the form of non-native species, Hg, spheroidal carbonaceous part...
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The Searsville Lake Site (California, USA) as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 M Allison Stegner, Elizabeth A Hadly, Anthony D Barnosky, SeanPaul La Selle, Brian Sherrod, R Scott Anderson, Sergio A Redondo, Maria C Viteri, Karrie L Weaver, Andrew B Cundy, Pawel Gaca, Neil L Rose, Handong Yang, Sarah L Roberts, Irka Hajdas, Bryan A Black, Trisha L Spanbauer
Cores from Searsville Lake within Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, California, USA, are examined to identify a potential GSSP for the Anthropocene: core JRBP2018-VC01B (944.5...
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Renewable energy creditors versus renewable energy debtors: Seeking a pattern in a sustainable energy transition during the climate crisis The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Jan K Kazak, Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Grzegorz Chrobak, Maria Mrówczyńska, Standa Martinát
Considering unpredictable and hastily evolving tipping points (like the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing climate crisis and the war in Ukraine), it is clear that sustainable energy transit...
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The Ernesto Cave, northern Italy, as a candidate auxiliary reference section for the definition of the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Andrea Borsato, Ian J Fairchild, Silvia Frisia, Peter M Wynn, Jens Fohlmeister
Annually laminated stalagmites ER77 and ER78 from Grotta di Ernesto provide an accurate annual record of environmental and anthropogenic signals for the last ~200 years. Two major transitions are r...
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Beppu Bay, Japan, as a candidate Global Boundaries Stratotype Section and Point for an Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Michinobu Kuwae, Bruce P Finney, Zhiyuan Shi, Aya Sakaguchi, Narumi Tsugeki, Takayuki Omori, Tetsuro Agusa, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Yusuke Yokoyama, Hirofumi Hinata, Yoshio Hatada, Jun Inoue, Kazumi Matsuoka, Misaki Shimada, Hikaru Takahara, Shin Takahashi, Daisuke Ueno, Atsuko Amano, Jun Tsutsumi, Masanobu Yamamoto, Keiji Takemura, Keitaro Yamada, Ken Ikehara, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi, Stephen Tims, Michaela Froehlich
For assessment of the potential of the Beppu Bay sediments as a Global Boundaries Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) candidate for the Anthropocene, we have integrated datasets of 99 proxies. The ...
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Impact of farming on African landscapes The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 David K Wright
As the continent with the deepest record of human history, the relationship between landscape formation and human subsistence practices is inseparable. The activities that constitute ‘farming’ are ...
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The Śnieżka peatland as a candidate for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Edyta Łokas, Beata Smieja-Król, Simon Turner, Francois De Vleeschouwer, Michał Woszczyk, Katarzyna Marcisz, Mariusz Gałka, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Piotr Kołaczek, Irka Hajdas, Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek, Katarzyna Kołtonik, Tomasz Mróz, Sarah Roberts, Neil Rose, Tomasz Krzykawski, Arnoud Boom, Handong Yang
The subalpine, atmospherically fed Śnieżka peatland, located in the Polish part of the Sudetes, is one of the nominated candidates for the GSSP of the Anthropocene. Data from two profiles, Sn1 (201...
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The East Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Jérôme Kaiser, Serena Abel, Helge W Arz, Andrew B Cundy, Olaf Dellwig, Pawel Gaca, Gunnar Gerdts, Irka Hajdas, Matthias Labrenz, James A Milton, Matthias Moros, Sebastian Primpke, Sarah L Roberts, Neil L Rose, Simon D Turner, Maren Voss, Juliana A Ivar do Sul
The short sediment core EMB201/7-4 retrieved from the East Gotland Basin, central Baltic Sea, is explored here as a candidate to host the stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene series and its e...
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The shape of Anthropocene: The early contribution of the water sciences The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Eugenio Luciano
The conceptual history of the Anthropocene is well-known: after a few scattered appearances in Soviet literature, the term Anthropocene was reignited independently by Paul Crutzen during his famous...
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The urban sediments of Karlsplatz, Vienna (Austria) as a candidate Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Michael Wagreich, Maria Meszar, Kira Lappé, Janis Wolf, Martin Mosser, Katrin Hornek, Veronika Koukal, Constance Litschauer, Nikolaos Piperakis, Karin Hain
Anthropogenic strata form the layered urban archive in the underground of large cities. In a transdisciplinary project involving geosciences, isotope physics and urban archaeology, we looked for ar...
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Maintaining global biodiversity by developing a sustainable Anthropocene food production system The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Chris D Thomas
Humans have appropriated modern (food and biomass) and ancient (fossil fuels) biological productivity in unprecedented quantities over the last century, generating the biodiversity and climate ‘cri...
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Greening Keynes? Productivist lineages of the Green New Deal The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Jeremy Green
Climate change has propelled the Green New Deal to prominence as a strategy for greening the economy. This article interrogates the Green New Deal’s coherence and suitability as a response to ecolo...
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Role of transportation infrastructures on the alteration of hillslope and fluvial geomorphology The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Suvendu Roy
Transport network infrastructure interacts with the earth’s surface because they often share common spaces (e.g. river valleys), such that transport is an anthropogenic pressure that can affect geo...
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Aristotle in the Anthropocene: The comparative benefits of Aristotelian virtue ethics over Utilitarianism and deontology The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Kevin Morrell, Frederik Dahlmann
In the Anthropocene, humanity faces a pressing question: ‘what should we do?’ Here we are interested in the underlying sense and reference of the normative ‘should’ as it applies to ethics with res...
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Exploring green areas in Polish cities in context of anthropogenic land use changes The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Tomasz Noszczyk, Katarzyna Cegielska, Krzysztof Rogatka, Tomasz Starczewski
Recent decades saw a global degradation of ecosystems and climate change caused by rapid anthropogenic socio-economic growth. The paper investigates spatio-temporal changes in green areas in Polish...
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Climate migration, resilience and adaptation in the Anthropocene: Insights from the migrating Frafra to Southern Ghana The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Charles Amo-Agyemang
Climate-induced indigenous migration has become a radical adaptation vision in the Anthropocene. The article focuses on the problematic of representation of indigenous traditional knowledge and ima...
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Introduction: The role of nature in the Anthropocene – Defining and reacting to a new geological epoch The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Philipp Höfele, Oliver Müller, Lore Hühn
In a paradigmatic selection, the Special Issue unites contributions from biology, sustainability research, psychology and philosophy as well as media science and literary studies. It aims to discus...
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An Anthropocene species of trouble? Negative synergies between earth system change and geological destratification The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Nigel Clark, Lauren Rickards
It is already well understood that unbinding materials and energy from their lithic reservoirs impacts upon Earth systems. But that is just the first stage of a cycle of ‘Anthropocene trouble’. Thi...
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Communication of solar geoengineering science: Forms, examples, and explanation of skewing The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Jesse L Reynolds
Although a judicious use of solar radiation modification (SRM, or solar geoengineering) appears able to reduce climate change, SRM would create risks of its own. How results and conclusions are con...
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Between fragility and resilience: Ambivalent images of nature in popular documentaries with David Attenborough The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Evi Zemanek
Nature documentaries often present contradictory images of, on the one hand, a fragile nature that is threatened or already destroyed by humans and, on the other hand, a resilient nature that indif...
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Energy transitions in the shadow of a dictator: Decarbonizing neoliberalism and lithium extraction in Chile The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Donald V Kingsbury
The global economy’s neoliberal era began in 1973 with a military coup in Chile lead by General Augusto Pinochet. Though the country returned to civilian rule in 1990, the dictatorship continues to...
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Rights of nature, human species identity, and political thought in the anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Seth Epstein
While much has been written about the efforts in multiple jurisdictions to recognize nature and natural features as rightsholders, there has been relatively little research into the relationship of...
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Prospective technology assessment in the Anthropocene: A transition toward a culture of sustainability The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Martin Möller, Rainer Grießhammer
In the Anthropocene, humankind has become a quasi-geological force. Both the rapid development as well as the depth of intervention of new technologies result in far-reaching and irreversible anthr...
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Is our planet doubly alive? Gaia, globalization, and the Anthropocene’s planetary superorganisms The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Boris Shoshitaishvili
The theory of the superorganism—that there exist composite forms of life organized at scales above the multicellular organism—has been part of scientific discourse and speculation since the late 1800s. Over the last century theories of the superorganism have grown in scope from designating the local insect colony as emergently alive to positing a global entity enveloping the entire planetary surface
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Who is the Anthropos in the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Jason Martin Wirth
This is a series of three interwoven philosophical reflections on the identity of the anthropos in the Anthropocene. Who is this anthropos? I argue that it does not indict humanity as such but rather a certain way of being human. Moreover, this mode of being human does not extend to all human beings, but rather only to a fortunate few who disproportionately benefit from fossil capital. I respond to
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The record of sedimentary spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) in Beppu Bay, southern Japan, compared to historical trends of industrial activity and atmospheric pollution: Further evidence for SCPs as a marker for Anthropocene industrialization The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Jun Inoue, Natsuko Takenaka, Takamoto Okudaira, Michinobu Kuwae
Spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) are carbonaceous fly ash particles produced solely from industrial fossil fuel combustion. SCPs in sediments can be an indicator of past industrialization. We examined the sedimentary SCP record in Beppu Bay, southern Japan, and compared this record to historical trends of industrial activity and monitoring data for atmospheric pollutions in the region. Beppu
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Who’s gonna use this? Acceptance prediction of emerging technologies with Cognitive-Affective Mapping and transdisciplinary considerations in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Sabrina Livanec, Michael Stumpf, Lisa Reuter, Julius Fenn, Andrea Kiesel
In the Anthropocene, mankind is facing enormous challenges. Science and technology obviously have an essential role to play in addressing these challenges but have to be supplemented by the collaboration of different actors from the scientific and non-scientific community. Possibly beneficial technologies can only unfold their full potential if they are socially accepted. Participation and transdisciplinarity
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Views from nowhere, somewhere and everywhere else: The tragedy of the horizon in the early Anthropocene The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Bob Frame, Nicholas A Cradock-Henry
The ability to anticipate, plan for and adapt to the changes of the early Anthropocene is limited by human behaviour, political inertia, and short-termism. This ‘tragedy of the horizon’ is explored through three specific lenses on early Anthropocene futures. We begin with the dominant scientific evidence: mathematical and probabilistic modelling synthesised into increasingly rigorous and sophisticated
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Dune(s): Fiction, history, and science on the Oregon coast The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Joana Gaspar de Freitas
What connects the sci-fi book Dune with coastal dunes and geoengineering? The answer lies in humans and their world-making activities. This paper proposes an innovative approach to coastal dunes as hybrid environments by analyzing the dunes stabilization programs developed on the US Pacific Coast. It looks into the shifting sands of the Oregon coast and how they influenced Frank Herbert to write his
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Finding common ground: The global Anthropocene Curriculum experiment The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Christoph Rosol
The daunting crisis of the Anthropocene cannot be adequately addressed without re-envisioning our conceptual approach to knowledge formation. This background essay to the double special issue on the Mississippi River provides an account on the Anthropocene Curriculum (AC) initiative, the general framework in which the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project was devised and implemented. The AC is
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Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science The Anthropocene Review (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Benedict E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette, Anders Burman, Carina Green
Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology and various forms of heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses environmental management, conservation, and restoration are also interested in traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous and local knowledge, and local environmental knowledge (hereafter