The Anthropocene refers to the planetary scale of anthropogenic influences on the composition and function of Earth ecosystems and life forms. Socio-political and geographic responses frame the uneven topographies of climate change, while eff orts to adapt and mitigate its impact ex...
Spherical encounters of the Anthropocene refers to the impact of humanity's global ecological footprint that is addressed through the metaphor of the spheres. The new human-generated Anthropo-Noo-spheres and their interaction with the Spheres of Earth are tackled through ecocritical...
【Abstract】Future Philosophy is the theme of my book Philosophy of the Anthropocene (人类世的哲学) published in 2020. My thinking on the theme mainly starts from Nietzsche and Heidegger. What is Future Philosophy, and why should philosophy turn to the future? To find these answers, we must ...
Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene often manifests as habitat conversion for human use, and it is driving the loss of wilderness areas, elevating species extinctions and promoting non-native naturalizations, at scales comparable to a global biodiversity crisis53,54. The large-scale transport of...
The Anthropocene—term proposed by the scientific community for the current geological epoch to signal humans as a leading geological force in earth history—has open intense debates across the sciences and humanities, in that the traditional gap between natural and social phenomena, occurring respective...
This review entails a critical appraisal on the potential of plants as alternatives to synthetic chemicals for crop protection, aligning with the global shift towards green-based approaches in agriculture. Utilising a defined set of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 235 papers were extracted from Scopus...
increase in the global population between 1901 and the 1930s and its rapid growth, especially after World War II up to the 1980s (Supplementary Fig.13). The 1950s is often seen as the beginning of the Anthropocene24. The high post-war population boom also led to a fast increase in A...
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity 2024, Environmental Education Research An eco-psychological framework for research on the physical environment of childcare classrooms...
whereby Tmaxand Tmin(°C) refer to the mean air temperature of the warmest and coldest month, respectively, and φ (radians) refers to latitude. Using the same air temperature data as above61,63, for each study site we calculated the average Summer Warmth Index (i.e. the annual sum of...
the Anthropocene, suggesting ways in which new symbioses could arise due to AC, how symbioses could be agents of ecosystem change, and how symbioses, broadly defined, of humans and “farmed” organisms may have launched the Anthropocene. We conclude with reflections on the robustness of symbioses...