The Anthropocene - 9781032076683

Taylor & Francis

The AnthropoceneAuthor(s): David R. Butler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032076683, 978-1032076683\nSynopsis\nThis book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earths environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene. \n\nThis edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and st.