...Theodoor A. M. Richard In this article I seek a new way to understand the Anthropocene and its ecological crisis. I argue that we must first deconstruct the mainstream Herderian concept of culture, as it seems inadequate to capture how we deal with our life circumstances and choices, especially...

... by discrepancies to recent climatic records. Considering the alterations of waterways worldwide, this sedimentological mismatch may constitute a new proxy of the Anthropocene and highlights the way that human activities are altering the sediment cycle. The city’s surroundings are hyperarid (< 27 mm rain per...

.../ . System science Social-ecological systems (SES) Anthropocene Lead contamination Soil remediation Environmental justice Understanding, predicting, and responding to rapidly changing processes on Earth’s surface is among “the most pressing challenges of our time” ( Harden et al., 2014 ). We...

... Anthropocene Governance Resilience Complexity It is helpful to understand the benefits and trade-offs of divisional bureaucracies based on how they are structured. Organizational design can be classified into several general schema to structure the basic components of organizations: strategic...

...Yongjian Chen; Jialiang Kuang; Pandeng Wang; Wensheng Shu; Albert Barberán We are living in a new epoch—the Anthropocene, in which human activity is reshaping global biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Increasing efforts are being made toward a better understanding of the associations between...

.... While complexity in infrastructure has always existed in some form, making infrastructures agile and flexible for the Anthropocene will require us to acknowledge and work with the fact that infrastructure change now appears to be a wicked and complex process. Wicked complexity is the result of three...

... of how new politics and modes of governance of and for the (proposed) Anthropocene are taking shape. 12 12 2017 12 07 2018 Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) 2018 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC...

... is increasing in the Anthropocene, as particle loading by rivers and surface run-off includes not only natural particles, but also urban and agricultural particles with sorbed pollutants and contaminants of organic, inorganic and microplastic composition. Human activities such as trawling and dredging increase...

...F. Stuart Chapin, III; Erica Fernandez; Donald R. Zak The rapid, directional global changes that characterize the Anthropocene provide unprecedented opportunities for ecologists and other scientists to discover new paradigms that shape our understanding of the ways that the world is changing...