Environmental transformations: a geography of the anthropocene
"From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological era...
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| Summary: | "From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological era defined not by natural environmental fluctuations or meteorite impacts, but by collective actions of humanity. Environmental Transformations offers a concise and accessible introduction to the human practices and systems that sustain the Anthropocene. It combines accounts of the carbon cycle, global heat balances, entropy, hydrology, forest ecology, and pedology, with theories of demography, war, industrial capitalism, urban development, state theory, and behavioural psychology. This book charts the particular role of geography and geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers. It provides a review of critical theories that can help to uncover the socio-economic and political factors that influence environmental change. It also explores key issues in contemporary environmental studies, such as resource use, water scarcity, climate change, industrial pollution and deforestation"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | X, 176 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780415809832 9780415809849 |
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Contents
List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Acknowledgements
1
Introduction: geography
in the Anthropocene
1.1
Même
or geological epoch:
introducing the Anthropocene
1.2
The rough geographies of the
Anthropocene
1.3
Where do we go from here?
Note
Key readings
Parti
Environmental
transformations
2
Resources: oil and water
2.1
Introduction: the
Simon-Ehrlich
wager
2.2
Changing patterns of resource use
2.3
Doomsters, cornucopians and
everything in between
ix
2.4
Water resources in the Nile
xi
Basin
37
xii
2.5
Conclusions
40
xiii
Notes
41
xiv
Key readings
41
3
Air: science and the
1
atmosphere
42
I
3.1
Introduction: Thomas Midgley
1
and the ultraviolet century
42
1
3.2
A brief history of air pollution:
r
from
Mauna
Loa
to Mumbai
44
5
1 1
3.3
Reflections on the nature of
12
1 /1
atmospheric science
52
14
1 /1
3.4
Corridors of uncertainty:
1
Ч-
'fugitive emissions' and the case
of Louisiana's cancer alley
60
3.5
Conclusions
63
Notes
63
15
Key readings
64
17
4
Soil: the political ecology
of soil degradation
65
17
4.1
Introduction: getting under the
19
planet's skin
65
4.2
Soil and environmental
31
transformations
66
4.3
Interpreting the transformation
of soil: a political ecology
perspective
73
4.4
A dust bowl for the twenty-first
century: soil degradation in
China
76
4.5
Conclusions
79
Key readings
80
5
Forests: jungle capitalism
and the corporate
environment
81
5.1
Introduction: the story of
ChutWutty
81
5.2
Transforming forests: reflections
on the long Anthropocene
82
5.3
Globalizing the forest and
multinational forest corporations
85
5.4
Jungle capitalism: the case of the
United Fruit Company
92
5.5
Big box retail and the global
timber supply chain
94
5.6
Conclusions
97
Note
98
Key readings
98
6
Cities: sprawl and the
urban planet
99
6.1
Introduction: urbanization
and why Darwin was wrong
after all
99
6.2
A brief history of urbanization:
from Mesopotamia to the
mega-region
100
6.3
Theorizing the city: from growth
machines to the
favela
105
6.4
Urbanization and the
environment
109
6.5
Conclusions
116
Notes
119
Key readings
119
Part
2
Living in the
Anthropocene
121
7
Governing the environment
123
7.1
Introduction: protecting people
from nature or protecting nature
from people?
123
7.2
A brief environmental history
of the nation state
125
7.3
Thinking about state-environment
relations: green arbiters and
ecological leviathans
128
7.4
Governing the air: the case of
the London fog disaster
134
7.5
Rivers of grass: the US state and
the Florida Everglades
137
7.6
Conclusions
141
Key readings
142
б
Greening the brain:
understanding and changing
human behaviour
143
8.1
Introduction: human psychology
in the Anthropocene
143
8.2
Changing patterns of human
behaviour and their environmental
consequences: Fordism and the
Great Acceleration
144
8.3
Understanding human behaviours:
religion, science and ideology
150
8.4
Changing human environmental
behaviours: beyond homo-
economicus
153
8.5
Policy perspectives on pro-
environmental behaviour
change
157
8.6
Conclusions
161
Key readings
161
9
Conclusions: misanthropy,
adaptation and safe
operating spaces
162
Bibliography
Index
164
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