| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge environmental humanities series |
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Routledge environmental humanities.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figure and table; Contributors; 1 Thinking the Anthropocene; PART I The concept and its implications; 2 The geological turn: narratives of the Anthropocene; 3 Human destiny in the Anthropocene; 4 The Anthropocene and the convergence of histories; 5 The political ecology of the Technocene: uncovering ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system; 6 Losing the Earth knowingly: six environmental grammars around 1800; PART II Catastrophism in the Anthropocene; 7 Anthropocene, catastrophism and green political theory |
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8 Eschatology in the Anthropocene: from the chronos of deep time to the kairos of the age of humans9 Green eschatology; PART III Rethinking politics; 10 Back to the Holocene: a conceptual, and possibly practical, return to a nature not intended for humans; 11 Accepting the reality of Gaia: a fundamental shift?; 12 Telling friends from foes in the time of the Anthropocene; 13 A much-needed renewal of environmentalism? Eco-politics in the Anthropocene; 14 The Anthropocene and its victims; Epilogue; 15 Commission on planetary ages decision CC87966424/49: the onomatophore of the Anthropocene |
| Summary |
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the 'Age of Humans'. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and t |
| Notes |
"Earthscan from Routledge." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Global environmental change.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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philosophical anthropology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Global environmental change
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Philosophical anthropology
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Environment and Ecology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hamilton, Clive, editor
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Bonneuil, Christophe, editor
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Gemenne, François, 1980- editor.
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| ISBN |
1317589092 |
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9781315743424 |
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1315743426 |
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9781317589082 |
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1317589084 |
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9781317589075 |
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1317589076 |
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9781317589099 |
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