The Anthropocene And Its Future

Author : Mimi Sheller
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012733

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Island Futures by Mimi Sheller Pdf

In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti's political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the "coloniality of climate." Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience—and the sustainability of the entire region—must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large.

Author : Frank Biermann,Eva Lövbrand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108481175

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Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking by Frank Biermann,Eva Lövbrand Pdf

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

Author : Gregg Mitman,Marco Armiero,Robert S. Emmett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226508825

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Future Remains by Gregg Mitman,Marco Armiero,Robert S. Emmett Pdf

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene—the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme weather, and severe economic disparity, how might certain objects make visible the uneven interplay of economic, material, and social forces that shape relationships among human and nonhuman beings? Future Remains is a thoughtful and creative meditation on these questions. The fifteen objects gathered in this book resemble more the tarots of a fortuneteller than the archaeological finds of an expedition—they speak of planetary futures. Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett, and Gregg Mitman have assembled a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene, bringing together a mix of lively essays, creatively chosen objects, and stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer Tim Flach. The result is a book that interrogates the origins, implications, and potential dangers of the Anthropocene and makes us wonder anew about what exactly human history is made of.

Author : Karl Bruckmeier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031566493

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The Anthropocene and its Future by Karl Bruckmeier Pdf

Author : Michelle Lim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811390654

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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene by Michelle Lim Pdf

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth’s history: the Anthropocene. The book discusses multiple contemporary and future challenges facing the planet and humanity. It examines the relationship between environmental law and the Anthropocene at governance scales from the global to the local. The breadth of issues and jurisdictions covered by the book, its forward-looking nature, and the unique generational perspective of the contributing authors means that this publication appeals to a wide audience from specialist academics and policy-makers to a broader lay readership.

Author : Jeremy Davies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520964334

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The Birth of the Anthropocene by Jeremy Davies Pdf

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental destruction and injustice. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Jeremy Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined.

Author : Jedediah Purdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368224

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After Nature by Jedediah Purdy Pdf

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.

Author : Vincent Ialenti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262539265

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Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti Pdf

A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future—to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise—today's popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. Astrophysicists, geologists, historians, evolutionary biologists, climatologists, archaeologists, and others can teach us the art of long-termism. For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland's nuclear waste repository “Safety Case” experts. These scientists forecast far future glaciations, climate changes, earthquakes, and more, over the coming tens of thousands—or even hundreds of thousands or millions—of years. They are not pop culture “futurists” but data-driven, disciplined technical experts, using the power of patterns to construct detailed scenarios and quantitative models of the far future. This is the kind of time literacy we need if we are to survive the Anthropocene.

Author : Diana Dalbotten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118854198

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Future Earth by Diana Dalbotten Pdf

Earth now is dominated by both biogeophysical and anthropogenicprocesses, as represented in these two images from a simulation ofaerosols. Dust (red) from the Sahara sweeps west across theAtlantic Ocean. Sea salt (blue) rises into the atmosphere fromwinds over the North Atlantic and from a tropical cyclone in theIndian Ocean. Organic and black carbon (green) from biomass burningis notable over the Amazon and Southeast Asia. Plumes of sulfate(white) from fossil fuel burning are particularly prominent overnortheastern North America and East Asia. If present trends of dustemissions and fossil fuel burning continues in what we call theAnthropocene epoch, then we could experience high atmosphericCO2 levels leading to unusual warming rarely experiencedin Earth’s history. This book focuses on human influences onland, ocean, and the atmosphere, to determine if human activitiesare operating within or beyond the safe zones of our planet’sbiological, chemical, and physical systems. Volume highlights include: • Assessment of civic understanding of Earth and itsfuture • Understanding the role of undergraduate geoscience researchand community-driven research on the Anthropocene • Effective communication of science to a broader audiencethat would include the public, the K-12 science community, orpopulations underrepresented in the sciences • Public outreach on climate education, geoscience alliance,and scientific reasoning Future Earth is a valuable practical guide for scientistsfrom all disciplines including geoscientists, museum curators,science educators, and public policy makers. This volume was made possible with the support of the NationalScience Foundation through the National Center for Earth-surfaceDynamics (EAR-0120914) and the Future Earth Initiative(DRL-0741760). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this publication are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.

Author : Stacia Ryder,Kathryn Powlen,Melinda Laituri,Stephanie A. Malin,Joshua Sbicca,Dimitris Stevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000396584

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Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene by Stacia Ryder,Kathryn Powlen,Melinda Laituri,Stephanie A. Malin,Joshua Sbicca,Dimitris Stevis Pdf

Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene explores how an environmental justice approach is necessary for reflections on inequality in the Anthropocene and for forging societal transitions toward a more just and sustainable future. Environmental justice is a central component of sustainability politics during the Anthropocene – the current geological age in which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Every aspect of sustainability politics requires a close analysis of equity implications, including problematizing the notion that humans as a collective are equally responsible for ushering in this new epoch. Environmental justice provides us with the tools to critically investigate the drivers and characteristics of this era and the debates over the inequitable outcomes of the Anthropocene for historically marginalized peoples. The contributors to this volume focus on a critical approach to power and issues of environmental injustice across time, space, and context, drawing from twelve national contexts: Austria, Bangladesh, Chile, China, India, Nicaragua, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Tanzania, and the United States. Beyond highlighting injustices, the volume highlights forward-facing efforts at building just transitions, with a goal of identifying practical steps to connect theory and movement and envision an environmentally and ecologically just future. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners focused on conservation, environmental politics and governance, environmental and earth sciences, environmental sociology, environment and planning, environmental justice, and global sustainability and governance. It will also be of interest to social and environmental justice advocates and activists.

Author : Gaia Vince
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781448128020

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Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince Pdf

** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 ** We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we’ve made. From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created. These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us – and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future.

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1595 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031259104

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Handbook of the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf Pdf

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality. These researchers also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well as, of course, environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved? Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far, there been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of biogeophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but which is also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 2280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128135761

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Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene by Anonim Pdf

Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene presents a currency-based, global synthesis cataloguing the impact of humanity’s global ecological footprint. Covering a multitude of aspects related to Climate Change, Biodiversity, Contaminants, Geological, Energy and Ethics, leading scientists provide foundational essays that enable researchers to define and scrutinize information, ideas, relationships, meanings and ideas within the Anthropocene concept. Questions widely debated among scientists, humanists, conservationists, politicians and others are included, providing discussion on when the Anthropocene began, what to call it, whether it should be considered an official geological epoch, whether it can be contained in time, and how it will affect future generations. Although the idea that humanity has driven the planet into a new geological epoch has been around since the dawn of the 20th century, the term ‘Anthropocene’ was only first used by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, and hence popularized in its current meaning by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000. Presents comprehensive and systematic coverage of topics related to the Anthropocene, with a focus on the Geosciences and Environmental science Includes point-counterpoint articles debating key aspects of the Anthropocene, giving users an even-handed navigation of this complex area Provides historic, seminal papers and essays from leading scientists and philosophers who demonstrate changes in the Anthropocene concept over time

Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781608194551

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Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris Pdf

“Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.” -The Wall Street Journal A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management. In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems. Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.

Author : Shannon Vallor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190851187

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology by Shannon Vallor Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology.