The meaning of the anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition

The meaning of the anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition

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* Rockström, J. _et al._ _Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA_ 121, e2301531121 (2024). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  * Thomas, J. A., Williams, M. & Zalasiewicz, J. _The Anthropocene: A


Multidisciplinary Approach_ (Polity, 2020). Google Scholar  * Crutzen, P. J. _Nature_ 415, 23 (2002). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  * Zalasiewicz, J. _et al._ _Quat. Int._ 383, 196–203


(2015). Article  Google Scholar  * Steffen, W., Broadgate, W., Deutsch, L., Gaffney, O. & Ludwig, C. _Anthropocene Rev._ 2, 81–98 (2015). Article  Google Scholar  * Waters, C. N.,


Turner, S. D., Zalasiewicz, J. & Head, M. J_. Anthropocene Rev._ 10, 3–24 (2023). Article  Google Scholar  * Waters, C. N. _et al._ _Preprint at Earth ArXiv_


https://doi.org/10.31223/X5MQ3C (2024). * Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C. N., Williams, M. & Summerhayes, C. P. (eds) _The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit_ (Cambridge Univ. Press,


2019). Google Scholar  * Haff, P. K. in _A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene_ (eds Waters, C. N., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Ellis, M. A. & Snelling, A. M.) 301–309


(Geological Society of London, 2014). Google Scholar  * McCarthy, F. M. G. _et al._ _Anthropocene Rev_. (in the press). * Walker, M. _et al._ _Episodes_ 31, 264–267 (2008). Article  Google


Scholar  * Head, M. J. & Gibbard, P. L. _Quat. Int._ 383, 4–35 (2015). Article  Google Scholar  * McNeill, J. R. & Engelke, P. _The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of


the Anthropocene since 1945_ (Harvard Univ. Press, 2016). Google Scholar  * Lewis, S. L. & Maslin, M. A. _Nature_ 519, 171–180 (2015). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  * Wagreich, M.


& Draganits, E. _Anthropocene Rev._ 5, 177–201 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  * Gibbard, P. L. _et al._ _Episodes_ 45, 349–357 (2022). Article  Google Scholar  * Syvitski, J. _et al._


_Commun. Earth Environ._ 1, 32 (2020). Article  Google Scholar  * Syvitski, J. _et al._ _Nature Rev. Earth Environ._ 3, 179–196 (2022). Article  Google Scholar  * Williams, M. _et al._


_Palaeontology_ 65, e12618 (2022). Article  Google Scholar  * Kuwae, M. _et al._ _Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA_ (in the press). * Steffen, W. _et al._ _Earths Future_ 4, 324–345 (2016). Article


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