Anthropocene: social science misconstrued

Evolving water science in the Anthropocene

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Social science. Computational social science.

Anthropocene Security

Earth system science now suggests that because of the huge transformations caused by human activity we now effectively live in a new geological era called the Anthropocene. The innovations in understanding the earth system make it clear that humanity is a key part of the changing biosphere and this new contextual understanding renders traditional ideas of environment inadequate in dealing with ...

Anthropocene Ethics:

The International Geosphere Biosphere Program has recently suggested that we now live in a new era of natural history, the Anthropocene, one marked by the emergence of a new series of geological, biological and climatological forcing mechanisms in the biosphere. These new forcing agents are changing the composition of trace gases in the atmosphere, moving large amounts of material all over the ...

The science in social science.

A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering--life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include po...