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Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Arctic HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138367591
ISBN13: 9781138367593
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2019
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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 our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing.

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