1. Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Anthropocene.
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Steffen, Will
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EARTH system science ,SOLAR radiation management ,CARBON cycle ,GEOLOGICAL time scales ,ANTHROPOCENE Epoch ,GLOBAL environmental change ,BIOSPHERE - Abstract
One was the Planetary Boundaries framework, introduced by Johan Rockström and colleagues in 2009, which aims to provide a natural-science based framework for describing a Holocene-like state of the Earth System and the intrinsic boundaries of the Earth System that should not be transgressed if such a stable state is to be maintained (Rockström et al. [10]). Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. The other is the polycentric governance systems approach introduced by the late Elinor Ostrom ([9]), which, in the context of the S et al. paper, was proposed as a more appropriate governance system for the Anthropocene than the present governance systems that are driving us deeper towards a planetary crisis. The SCM paper foreshadowed the debate on the start date for the Anthropocene, which became prominent from 2009 with the formation then of the Anthropocene Working Group to explore the Anthropocene as a potential new interval in the Geologic Time Scale (AWG [1]). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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