Search for dissertations about: "Anthropocene"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word Anthropocene.

2. 1. The Anthropocene Ocean : Risks and opportunities for global sustainability

   Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; Magnus Nyström; Henrik Österblom; Beatrice Crona; Albert Norström; Douglas McCauley; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Anthropocene; Coral reef; Finance; Globalisation; Ocean; Resilience; Seafood; Social-ecological system; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity; Transnational corporation; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : Humans have become a dominant force of planetary change. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, implies profound alterations to the Earth’s marine and terrestrial ecosystems upon which so many people depend. READ MORE

4. 2. Atmospheric and geological entanglements : north american ecopoetry and the anthropocene

   Author : Nuno Marques; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Daniel Andersson; Jonathan Skinner; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecopoetry; ecopoetics; North American ecopoetry; form in poetry; lament; mourning; song; sound; atmosphere; air; geology; Anthropocene; entanglements; community-making; environmental justice; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; new materialisms.; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements is a study of contemporary North American ecopoetry, a poetry which is characterized by a negotiation or subversion of established cultural representations of nature, and by a re-deployment of poetic forms such as lyrical poetry, pastoral and elegy. The studied poets experiment with form and question well-established categories such as human and nature, instead emphasizing connections between the human, other organisms, and inorganic matter. READ MORE

5. 3. The Northward Course of the Anthropocene : Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis

   Author : Eric Paglia; Sverker Sörlin; Nina Wormbs; Charles Parker; John McNeill; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anthropocene; Arctic; Fernand Braudel; environmental and climate crisis; environmental history; expertise; polar geopolitics; securitization; Svalbard; telecoupling; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

   Abstract : The Arctic—warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet—is a source of striking imagery of amplified environmental change in our time, and has come to serve as a spatial setting for climate crisis discourse. The recent alterations in the Arctic environment have also been perceived by some observers as an opportunity to expand economic exploitation. READ MORE

6. 4. From Corals to Corporations : Social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene ocean

   Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; Magnus Nyström; Toby Gardner; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Anthropocene; Ocean; Coral reef; Finance; Regime shift; Sustainability; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : The ocean has always been of paramount importance for the development of human civilisation. Today more than ever, the prospect of a new era of ‘blue growth’ poses great sustainability and governance challenges as marine ecosystems worldwide face unprecedented cumulative pressures from local human impacts, global climate change and distal socioeconomic processes. READ MORE

7. 5. Novelty in the Anthropocene : Exploring past and future novelty in marine social-ecological systems

   Author : Yosr Ammar; Thorsten Blenckner; Malin Pinsky; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Novelty; marine ecosystems; Social-Ecological Systems; Baltic Sea; Complex Adaptive Systems; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : Humans have become the major driving force of change, deeply affecting the Earth system and the biosphere. In marine ecosystems specifically, climate-related environmental changes and anthropogenic pressures (e.g. READ MORE