Main entry:

Davies, Jeremy, 1983- author.

Title & Author:

The birth of the Anthropocene / Jeremy Davies.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Description:

ix, 234 pages : map ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Living in deep time -- Versions of the Anthropocene -- Geology of the future -- The rungs on the ladder -- An obituary for the Holocene -- Conclusion : not even past.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The world is facing an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental despoliation and injustice. Jeremy Davies argues incisively that unequal relations between human societies must now be understood as ecological and geophysical forces that leave profound traces in the makeup of the planet. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780520289970 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520289978 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520289987 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520289986 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520964330
9780520964334

Subject:

Global environmental change.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Environmental geology.
Paleoecology Holocene.
Changement global (Environnement)
Homme Influence sur la nature.
Géoécologie.
Paléoécologie Holocène.
Holocene Geologic Period.
Paleoecology.
Anthropogener Einfluss
Anthropozän
Humanökologie
Umweltveränderung
Holozän
Umweltgeologie
Global uppvärmning.
Miljögeologi.
Paleoekologi.
Människan och naturen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292620
Call No.: BIB 236981
Status: Available