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The Anthropocene Review Volume 4 Issue 1

Subject Areas: Geology; ; ;
Publisher: SAGE Publications - SAGE
ISSN: 2053-0196
SJR: 28

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Introduction: In the machine room of the Anthropocene

Rosol, Christoph; Nelson, Sara; Renn, Jürgen

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019617701165
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Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective

Zalasiewicz, Jan; Williams, Mark; Waters, Colin N; Barnosky, Anthony D; Palmesino, John; Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi; Edgeworth, Matt; Neal, Cath; Cearreta, Alejandro; Ellis, Erle C; Grinevald, Jacques; Haff, Peter; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Price, Simon James; Revkin, Andrew; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin; Vidas, Davor; Wing, Scott; Wolfe, Alexander P

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019616677743

We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural and marine components, used to sustain energy and material flow for current human life, and a growing residue layer,...
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The technosphere in Earth System analysis: A coevolutionary perspective

Donges, Jonathan F; Lucht, Wolfgang; Müller-Hansen, Finn; Steffen, Will

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019616676608

Earth System analysis is the study of the joint dynamics of biogeophysical, social and technological processes on our planet. To advance our understanding of possible future development pathways and identify management options for navigating to safe operating spaces while avoiding undesirable...
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Knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene

Edwards, Paul N

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019616679854

The technosphere metabolizes not only energy and materials, but information and knowledge as well. This article first examines the history of knowledge about large-scale, long-term, anthropogenic environmental change. In the 19th and 20th centuries, major systems were built for monitoring both...
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The orbital technosphere: The provision of meaning and matter by satellites

Gärdebo, Johan; Marzecova, Agata; Knowles, Scott Gabriel

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019617696106

With a new ‘technosphere’ concept, Peter Haff offers a provocative reconceptualization of technology in Anthropocene, not as derivative consequence of human activity, but as a new ‘quasi-autonomous’ sphere of the environment that conditions human survival within the Earth System. Paying attention...
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The Anthropocene equation

Gaffney, Owen; Steffen, Will

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019616688022

The dominant external forces influencing the rate of change of the Earth System have been astronomical and geophysical during the planet’s 4.5-billion-year existence. In the last six decades, anthropogenic forcings have driven exceptionally rapid rates of change in the Earth System. This new...
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Whither climate change post-Paris?

Thompson, Roy

2017 The Anthropocene Review

doi:10.1177/2053019616676607

The Paris Climate Agreement has been welcomed by many as providing a remarkably strong basis for global action on anthropogenically mediated climate change, by underpinning a highly ambitious, very clever and forward-looking political process. On the other hand, the sum total of the fresh...

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