Rivers of the Anthropocene (eBook)

Jason M. Kelly (Herausgeber)

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2017
242 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96793-9 (ISBN)

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This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch of humans' own making. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines—from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy—this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene. 

Inhalt

List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Anthropocenes: A Fractured Picture
Jason M. Kelly

PART ONE. METHODS
2. Ecosystem Service-Based Approaches for Status Assessment of Anthropocene Riverscapes
Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey
3. Political Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in the Blue Nile Basin
Sina Marx
4. Rivers at the End of the End of Nature: Ethical Trajectories of the Anthropocene Grand Narrative
Celia Deane-Drummond
5. Rivers, Scholars, and Society: A Situation Analysis
Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms

PART TWO. HISTORIES
6. An Anthropocene Landscape: Drainage Transformed in the English Fenland
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith
7. A Western European River in the Anthropocene: The Seine, 1870–2010
Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel
8. Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and Agency
Philip V. Scarpino

PART THREE. EXPERIENCES
9. The Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Community Responses to an Environmental Crisis in the Early Anthropocene
Helen Berry
10. Engineering an Island City-State: A 3D Ethnographic Comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road
Stephanie C. Kane
11. Decoding the River: Artists and Scientists Reveal the Water System of the White River
Mary Miss and Tim Carter
12. What Is a River? The Chicago River as Hyperobject
Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Agency • Anthropocene • Blue Nile Basin • Case study • Chicago River • city state • Drainage • Ecological • Ecology • ecosystem • Engineering • ethics • ethnography • Flooding • great flood • Immigration • Landscape • Natural History • natural world • Nile River • public ecology • rivers • riverscape • scholars • seine river • Society • water system • waterways • Western Europe • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96793-3 / 0520967933
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96793-9 / 9780520967939