Isbn: 9781509534609 - the anthropocene: a multidisciplinary approach (9 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene.The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what 'Anthropocene' means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the 'anthropos' in the Anthropocene While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. ?An accessible tour de force and an ideal starting point for anyone seeking an understanding of the Anthropocene predicament.?John R. McNeill, Georgetown University?Earth System scientists have proposed the Anthropocene and geologists are confirming its rea.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Anthropocene - A Multidisciplinary Approach | A Multidisciplinary Approach | Jan Zalasiewicz (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Preface1. The Multidisciplinary Anthropocene2. The Geological Context of the Anthropocene3. The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit and the Great Acceleration4. The Anthropocene and Climate Change5. The Anthropocene and the Biosphere's Transformation6 | Englisch | 2020 | Polity Press | EAN 9781509534609 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…