Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly documented in terrestrial ecosystems, but indicators suggest defaunation has been more severe in freshwater ecosystems. Marine defaunation is in a more incipient stage, yet pronounced effects are already apparent and its rapid a...

Human modification of natural landscapes has influenced surface processes in many settings on Earth. Quantitative data comparing the distribution and behavior of geologic phenomena before and after human arrival are sparse but urgently required to evaluate possible anthropogenic influences on geologic hazards. We conduct field and imagery-based mapping, statistical analysis, and numerical model...

Purpose The aim of this article is to develop an architectural pedagogy for the Anthropocene. author reflect on a project within postgraduate theory module address following questions: How can articulate critical modes production that contribute quality education in time Anthropocene? What are ideas, values and practices needed? Design/methodology/approach method employed close reading texts fo...

Purpose – The governance of the relationship between humans and the biophysical world has been based on a paradigm characterized by dualistic thinking and scientism. This has led us to the Anthropocene. The purpose of this paper is to reframe human-biosphere governance in terms of “cyber-systemics”, a neologism that is useful, we argue, not only for breaking out of this dualistic paradigm in hu...

This is an interview with David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at Westminster University, UK, a leading scholar in the field international politics and policy discourses resilience Anthropocene. explores challenges presented by Anthropocene ways that ‘hope’ ‘resilience’ might effectively reflect negotiate them.

Geological records on earth are largely set in stone, or at least the distinctive fossils to be found in different layers of rock. The geological time scale also tends to span millions of years though more recently they have comprised mere millennia, with the most recent epoch, the Holocene, traced back to have begun just 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age. But geologists are now c...

on the environment, including changes to land, atmosphere and oceans, but it was also the time when human activity became globalised. This led to a whole range of new global problems, from the destruction of atmospheric ozone through to accumulation of marine litter, climate change, ocean acidifi cation, and more. These global changes would already ensure that geologists of the future would fi ...

Purpose – The governance of the relationship between humans and the biophysical world has been based on a paradigm characterized by dualistic thinking and scientism. This has led us to the Anthropocene. The purpose of this paper is to reframe human-biosphere governance in terms of “cyber-systemics”, a neologism that is useful, we argue, not only for breaking out of this dualistic paradigm in hu...

Abstract In coming to grips with the advent of Anthropocene, contemporary philosophers have recently pushed beyond its many physical implications (e.g., global warming, reduced biodiversity) and social significance climate justice, economics, migration) interpret Anthropocene metaphysically. According such interpretations, imposes nothing less than a wholly new understanding world. This raises ...