The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach

by Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz

Book Overview

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene.

The Anthropocene is intriguing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509534601
• ISBN13: 9781509534609
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"