Chapter 32 - The Anthropocene
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The value of agent-based modelling for assessing tourism–environment interactions in the Anthropocene
2016, Current Opinion in Environmental SustainabilityCitation Excerpt :As their work illustrates, the phenomenal growth in the human enterprise since 1950 (as also represented by dramatic increases in factors, such as population, urbanisation, income, transportation and telecommunications) corresponds closely with substantial shifts in the structure and functioning of Earth's ecosystems. According to these and other authors [e.g., 5], the beginning of this Great Acceleration also marks the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, an era driven by human influence. Tourism scholars have recently started to explore the role of tourism in the Anthropocene [6].
Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
2015, AnthropoceneCitation Excerpt :Land system science studies the past, current and projected state and dynamics of land use. Human use of land is a major component of the long-term anthropogenic global changes in the Earth system that have underpinned the call for the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geologic time (Zalasiewicz et al., 2012). A collaborative effort was made to review and compare the latest global datasets on human populations and land use over the course of the past 8000 years to evaluate human use of land as a global force transforming the terrestrial biosphere (Ellis et al., 2013).
International law for the Anthropocene? Shifting perspectives in regulation of the oceans, environment and genetic resources
2015, AnthropoceneCitation Excerpt :The Holocene, comprising the past 11,700 years,2 has been characterized, especially in its later stage, by the longest relative stability in environmental conditions on the Earth since the appearance of Homo sapiens some 200,000 years ago. Unlike the Holocene, however, the Anthropocene is seen as thoroughly characterized by change, uncertainty and, probably, considerable instability in the behaviour of the Earth system (Zalasiewicz et al., 2012; Williams et al., 2015). What is fundamentally new in the Anthropocene concept is its focus on the role of humans in the destabilization of the Earth system, and not just the human impact on the environment, as in various earlier approaches (Hamilton and Grinevald, 2015).3
Fluctuating boundaries in a changing marine environment
2021, Leiden Journal of International LawRecovering groundwater for wetlands from an anthropogenic aquifer
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