The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch

Autor: Philip Gibbard, Michael Walker, Andrew Bauer, Matthew Edgeworth, Lucy Edwards, Erle Ellis, Stanley Finney, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Mark Maslin, Dorothy Merritts, William Ruddiman
Přispěvatelé: Gibbard, P [0000-0001-9757-7292], Walker, M [0000-0002-4293-064X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Quaternary Science. 37:395-399
ISSN: 1099-1417
0267-8179
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3416
Popis: Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain undefined. Formal definition of the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphical series and geochronological epoch following the Holocene, at a fixed horizon and with a precise global start date, has been proposed, but fails to account for the diachronic nature of human impacts on global environmental systems during the late Quaternary. By contrast, defining the Anthropocene as an ongoing geological event more closely reflects the reality of both historical and ongoing human-environment interactions, encapsulating spatial and temporal heterogeneity, as well as diverse social and environmental processes that characterise anthropogenic global changes. Thus, an Anthropocene Event incorporates a substantially wider range of anthropogenic environmental and cultural effects, whilst at the same time applying more readily in different academic contexts than would be the case with a rigidly-defined Anthropocene Series/Epoch.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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