This chapter summarizes the Anthropocene periodization, as proposed by Paul Crutzen and his colleagues. After reviewing the literature, we advance the proposition that the Anthropocene is unable to address the problem of freedom implicated in the environment-society problematic—a seemingly paradoxical ...
is of regional and global importance. Although recent influential research suggests that the vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau has been greening, or improving, local yak herders in Nagchu (Tibetan Autonomous Region, China) report that their grassland has deteriorated. To understand...
What is rust an example of? What does lacquer mean? What is the meaning of weathering? What does feedstock mean? What does 100% humidity mean? What does 95% humidity mean? Define circumferential burn What is ferrous metallurgy? What is meant by the term salinity?
What is the meaning of arachnology? What is the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis? What is meant by the Anthropocene? What does noncoplanar mean? What does hypercapnia mean? What does dissect mean? What does cauterized mean? What does osteonecrosis of the knee mean?
The notions of resilience and adaptation have been widely adopted inside and outside the academia, and the scientific meaning of the terms has become blurred in common usage.3 Yet their wide adoption indicates that they are useful for many actors. Transformation has not yet gained the same ...
the problem. To *create* content is to be distracted. To *create* the “platform” is to focus on the true structure of reality. Shaping media is better than shaping the content of such media. It is the person who makes the “platform” who becomes a billionaire. The person who ...
To compose a speculative music is first to draw associations with the medieval category of a “musica speculativa”, that esoteric part of music theory that lies beyond the practical and theoretical aspects of musical composition to address existential questions of “why?” 1 It was during this...
We also aim to shed light on gaps and silences, because where meaning is produced through “what is said”, meaning is also produced in “what is not said” (Rönnblom and Eduards, 2008). This calls into question how policy problematizes gender inequality in the forest sector and ...
: such ecosystem would be more “natural” in this meaning as it can shelter and produce more “nature”. Last but not least, if the aim is to conserve the fundamental character of a space, there is a theoretical idea of this place to showcase, in spite of its actual material reality...
Aurora analogizes her body to the Earth on tracks like “The Essence”—comparing herself to a tree, “vulnerable just like me”—and equates her mortality to that of the planet’s through an almost metaphysical lens on “Your Blood” and “My Name.”“Your blood, what matter is it mad...