The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

By J. Zalasiewicz, M. Williams, A. Haywood, M. Ellis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Will Steffen
2. Erle C. Ellis
3. J. McNeill
4. J. Rockström
5. L. Deutsch
6. J. Zalasiewicz
7. J. Grinevald
8. A. Barnosky

In Oceanography

1. Marten Scheffer
2. Will Steffen
3. Carl Folke
4. A. Barnosky

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Erle C. Ellis
2. Will Steffen
3. Carl Folke
4. J. Rockström
5. P. Crutzen
6. Yadvinder S. Malhi
7. Jason W. Moore

Citations in the corpus

• Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology (2014, neutral): “The concept of the Anthropo-cene recognizes that human activity has now transformed many of the Earth ’ s ecosystems on a global scale (Crutzen & Stoermer 2000), yet formalizing this as a new geological epoch remains controversial (Zalasiewicz et al. 2011; Gibbard & Walker 2013).”
• The Anthropocene biosphere (2015, background): “The combination of resulting stratigraphic signals (see Waters et al., 2014 and references therein; Williams et al., 2011; Zalasiewicz et al., 2008) is unlike anything else in the geological record, and signals a major shift in Earth process.”
• Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? (2015, background): “…accelerated population expansion, technological changes, and economic growth caused increased urbanization, mineral exploitation, and crop cultivation; these factors in turn elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations enormously (Waters et al., 2014; Williams et al., 2011).”
• The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship (2011, background): “Very long time-scales are associated with some features of the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al. 2011).”
• Earth observation satellite sensors for biodiversity monitoring: potentials and bottlenecks (2014, background): “Urbanization with its ever continuing expansion of infrastructure; agro-industrialization; and the constant hunger for food, construction, geological, and energy resources has led to a drastic increase in species extinction (Zalasiewicz et al. 2011).”