| Description |
vi, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Bringing field observation to the Anthropocene -- What makes a patch? -- Mapping the patch -- Hotspots in the patchy Anthropocene -- Unseasonal weather -- How to detonate an Anthropocene -- Others without history -- What is history? -- Histories of the future -- Piling -- Building and unbuilding -- Beyond piling. |
| Summary |
"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Global environmental change.
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Human ecology.
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Environmental degradation.
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
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| Added Author |
Deger, Jennifer, author.
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Saxena, Alder Keleman, author.
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Zhou, Feifei, author.
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| ISBN |
9781503637320 hardcover : $ |
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1503637328 hardcover |
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