Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene emphasizes that all of us are collectively responsible for the future of the world. Society will have to legitimize science and technology, focusing in particular on education as one of the most powerful tools for transformation, in order to make the Anthropocene long-lasting, equitable, and worth-living.
When Jacques Piccard started his first deep-sea expedition in 1960, the world’s oceans still seemed healthy and clean.
Inspired by courses they’ve developed at Stanford, Mike Osborne and Miles Traer created the Generation Anthropocene podcast, a volunteer-based audio show featuring thought leaders.
Stockholm Resilience Centre advances the understanding of complex social-ecological systems and generates new insights and development to improve ecosystem management practices and long-term sustainability.
Paul Gillen explores the role of conscious human agency leading up to the Anthropocene, suggesting that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an influence on the interaction of minerals and life.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Hugo Reinert places multispecies studies in conversation with the geological turn by examining the place of a particular sacrifice stone in the ambit of a coastal mining development in northern Norway.
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled “relativism.”
Considering Caroline Wendling’s living artwork White Wood (2014) in northeast Scotland, the author examines the relationship between deep time, ecology, and enchantment.
This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.