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The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
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J. R. McNeill
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age—the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.
Author / Editor information
McNeill J. R. :
J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.Engelke Peter :
Peter Engelke is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC.
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Among the first scholarly works to make explicit use of the geological framework of the Anthropocene for the purpose of rethinking the grand narratives of global economic change.
-- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books
-- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 4, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780674970731
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Main content:
288
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12 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 6 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780674970731
Audience(s) for this book
General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
