The Anthropocene

Herausgeber: Butler, David R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earthâ s environmental systems and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 277mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1032g
• ISBN-13: 9781032076690
• ISBN-10: 1032076690
• Artikelnr.: 69792976

Autorenporträt

David R. Butler is Texas State University System Regents' Professor Emeritus, and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography, Texas State University. His research interests include geomorphology in the Anthropocene, zoogeomorphology, dendrogeomorphology, and mountain environments and environmental change, especially in the Rocky Mountains.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Anthropocene Part 1: Definitions and Conceptual
Considerations 1. The Anthropocene: The One, the Many, and the Topological
2. The Geoethical Semiosis of the Anthropocene: The Peircean Triad for a
Reconceptualization of the Relationship between Human Beings and
Environment 3. Placing the Anthropos in Anthropocene 4. The Inhumanities 5.
Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene 6.
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene 7. On Decolonizing the Anthropocene:
Disobedience via Plural Constitutions Part 2: Historical Perspectives on
the Anthropocene 8. Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and
Roots of U.S. Physical Geography 9. Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice,
Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North
Atlantic Region 10. Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What
Geographers Have Said and Have to Say Part 3: Physical Geography and the
Anthropocene 11. Floodplain and Terrace Legacy Sediment as a Widespread
Record of Anthropogenic Geomorphic Change 12. Hotter Drought as a
Disturbance at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains 13. Onset of
the Paleoanthropocene in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North America: An
Archaeological and Paleoecological Synthesis 14. Identifying a
Pre-Columbian Anthropocene in California 15. Wetland Farming and the Early
Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and
Multiproxy Verification 16. Putting the Anthropocene into Practice:
Methodological Implications Part 4: Natural Hazards, Disasters, and the
Anthropocene 17. The Changing Nature of Hazard and Disaster Risk in the
Anthropocene 18. Seismic Shifts: Recentering Geology and Politics in the
Anthropocene 19. Understanding Urban Flood Resilience in the Anthropocene:
A Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS) Learning Framework Part 5:
The Environment and Environmental Degradation 20. Reframing Pre-European
Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens 21. Forests in the Anthropocene 22.
Abandoning Holocene Dreams: Proactive Biodiversity Conservation in a
Changing World 23. Re-envisioning the Toxic Sublime: National Park
Wilderness Landscapes at the Anthropocene 24. Climate Necropolitics:
Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive
Violence in the Anthropocene 25. Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening
for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene 26. Ruins of the Anthropocene: The
Aesthetics of Arctic Climate Change 27. The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers,
Everyday Exceptionality, and the Politics of Data Management in the
Anthropocene Part 6: The Anthropocene and Geographic Education 28. What
Does That Have to Do with Geology? The Anthropocene in School Geographies
around the World 29. Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating
Citizens at the Neoliberal University