Anthropocene Antarctica
Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth's future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the 'last wilderness.' The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McGee, Jeffrey (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-429-77075-3
- EAN: 9780429770753
- Produktnummer: 32812897
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'690 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 11 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Leane is Professor of English at the School of Humanities/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.Jeffrey McGee is Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law at the Faculty of Law/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.
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