The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration

By Will Steffen, Wendy J. Broadgate, L. Deutsch, Owen Gaffney, Cornelia Ludwig. 2015

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? (2015, background): “…with the ÒGreat AccelerationÓ of population growth, economic development, industrialization, mineral and hydrocarbon exploitation, the manufacturing of novel materials such as plastics, the emergence of megacities, and increased species extinctions and invasions (Steffen et al., 2007, 2015).”
Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (2017, background): “Index abandoned resources, reclaiming of, 233 Abdon, Don, 160–1 Abengoa, 306 abstract labour, 256; capital reproduction, 251 accountability, Barcelona en Comú emphasis, 346 activists’ strategy, 383 Africa, customary laws, 272 agriculture, ecologies reproducing, 226; neoliberal agro-export, 284 Aguas”
Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship (2017, background): “The Great Acceleration has substantially altered these relations in ways that are not yet fully understood.”
The concept of the Anthropocene as a game-changer: a new context for social innovation and transformations to sustainability (2017, background): “The Anthropocene era, and particularly the period from the 1950s onward, has been deemed a significant period referred to as the “Great Acceleration” (Hibbard et al. 2007, Lewis and Maslin 2015, Steffen et al. 2015, Gaffney and Steffen 2017).”
Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science (2016, background): “3) and that the increase in scale and spread of the human dimension and the connectivity and speed of the globalized world now shapes the biosphere and our own future in profound ways (Daly and Cobb 1989, Costanza 1991, Folke 1991, Perrings et al. 1992, Folke et al. 2011, Steffen et al. 2015a).”
The Role of Hydrocarbons in the Global Energy Agenda: The Focus on Liquefied Natural Gas (2020, background): “At the same time, it is obvious that additional technogenic emission is not a way to balance the global carbon cycle [40], and the contribution of mankind has become more visible in recent centuries [41].”
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? (2021, neutral): “Of initial relevance here is the intense globalization of the economy that accompanied the post-1940s Great Acceleration (12).”
Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene? Social-Ecological Systems, Resilience, and Collaborative Learning (2017, background): “Because of the high profile of global environmental issues in the Anthropocene, the planetary level has received a great deal of attention [2,5], often to the neglect of other levels of organization.”