The Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9781032076683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 362 str.

David R. Butler

Opis

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

Spis treści

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 

O autorze

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.