Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction

Ellis, Erle C.

ISBN 10: 0198792980 / ISBN 13: 9780198792987

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2018

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This Very Short Introduction explains the science behind the Anthropocene and the many proposals about when to mark its beginning.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Erle C. Ellis is Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research investigates the ecology of human landscapes at local to global scales towards informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. He teaches environmental science and landscape ecology at UMBC, and has taught ecology at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Ellis is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission of Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the scientific steering committee of the Global Land Programme, formerly of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), now of its successor organization, Future Earth, and a senior fellow of the Breakthrough Institute.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Like New