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Living in the anthropocene : earth in the age of humans
Record details
- ISBN: 9781588346452
- ISBN: 1588346013
- ISBN: 9781588346018
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Physical Description:
x, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, in association with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Drivers of change -- $tThe fire that made the future /$rStephen J. Pyne -- $tA new dream of the Earth /$rWade Davis -- $tLocating ourselves in relation to the natural world /$rLindsay L. Clarkson -- $tTemperate forest: A tale of the Anthropocene /$rSean M. McMahon -- $tUrban nature/Human nature /$rPeter Del Tredici -- $tAtmospheric and the Anthropocene /$rKelly Chance -- $tBeyond the biosphere: Expanding the limits of the human world /$rLisa Ruth Band -- $gIII $tResponding to change -- $tArchaeology and the future of our planet /$rTorben C. Rick -- $tLiving on a changing planet: Why indigenous voices matter /$rIgor Krupnik -- $tBlack and green: The forgotton committment to sustainability /$rLonnie G. Bunch III -- $tForest succession and human agency in an uncertain future /$rRobin L. Chazdon -- $tOcean 2.0 /$rJ. Emmett Duffy -- $tThe Earth is a garden /$rAri Novy, Peter H. Raven, and Holly H. Shimizu -- $tHuman health in the Anthropocene /$rGeorge E. Luber -- $gIV $tVisual culture -- $tThe city in the sea: Alexis Rockman's Anthropocene imaginings /$rJoanna Marsh -- $tAfrican art and the Anthropocene /$rKaren E. Milbourne -- $tWhy polar bears? Seeing the Arctic anew /$rSubhankar Banerjee -- $tThe return of the boomerang /$rLuc Jacquet -- $tFilmaking in the Anthropocene /$rJohn Grabowska -- $tPicturing planetary peril: Visual media and the environment crisis /$rFinis Dunaway -- $gV $tThe way forward -- $tDragons in the greenhouse: The value of knowledge and the danger of uncertainty /$rRichard B. Alley -- $tWhy scientist and engineers must work together /$rG. Wayne Clough -- $tHazards to our heritage: choices and solutions /$rCorine Wegner -- $tThe unequal anthropocene /$rRob Nixon -- $tThe global commons /$rNaoko Ishii -- $tCan we redefine the Anthropocene? /$rThomas E. Lovejoy -- $gAfterword /$rEdward O. Wilson. |
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| Subject: | Human ecology Nature -- Effect of human beings on Global environmental change |
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- 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Prince Rupert Library | 304.2 Livi (Text) | 33294002016103 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
A collection of thirty-two essays by leading thinkers across the disciplines. These essays explore the Anthropocene from scientific, anthropological, social, artistic, and economic points of view. They seek to understand the drivers of human-induced environmental change as well as how people and planetary systems are adaptng to such change. Each writer offers invaluable insight into Earth's future as the Anthropocene accelerates.
