Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031172760 | 1026 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 78 MB
This contributed volume presents an analysis of the current conservation status of major faunal groups in Mexico. The chapters describe a prognosis of future challenges, and also explore the expanding threats inherent in the Anthropocene within the context of the unique physical, biological and cultural aspects of the nation. Covering 27 chapters, and written by Mexican and international authors, this book analyzes a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate animal taxa, their ecosystems and the critical processes related to their present conservation status. This volume is an important reference material for researchers, conservationists and students interested in the biological and ecological processes shaping the Mexican fauna.

Victor Teo, "Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia "
English | ISBN: 1032079215 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 35 MB
This book examines the theme of human-animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.

Accountability and Transparency in the Modern Anthropocene
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811651906 | 532 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
The book is about accountability processes and how they contribute solutions to our current environmental and global political problems. This book is different to other literature in this field. This is so because the dominant accountability discourse is shaped by what is defined as a neoliberal business case for social and environmental reform.

The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities By Seth T. Reno (editor)
2021 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0367558394 | PDF | 11 MB
Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. Meaning "The Age of Humans," the Anthropocene is the proposed name for our current geological epoch, beginning when human activities started to have a noticeable impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. Long embraced by the natural sciences, the Anthropocene has now become commonplace in the humanities and social sciences, where it has taken firm enough hold to engender a thoroughgoing assessment and critique. Why and how has the geological concept of the Anthropocene become important to the humanities? What new approaches and insights do the humanities offer? What narratives and critiques of the Anthropocene do the humanities produce? What does it mean to study literature of the Anthropocene? These are the central questions that this collection explores. Each chapter takes a decidedly different humanist approach to the Anthropocene, from environmental humanities to queer theory to race, illuminating the important contributions of the humanities to the myriad discourses on the Anthropocene. This volume is designed to provide concise overviews of particular approaches and texts, as well as compelling and original interventions in the study of the Anthropocene. Written in an accessible style free from disciplinary-specific jargon, many chapters focus on well-known authors and texts, making this collection especially useful to teachers developing a course on the Anthropocene and students undertaking introductory research. This collection provides truly innovative arguments regarding how and why the Anthropocene concept is important to literature and the humanities.

Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences By Elizabeth Leane (editor), Jeffrey McGee (editor)
2019 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1138367591 | PDF | 11 MB
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. Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.

Kohei Saito, "Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism"
English | ISBN: 1009366181 | 2023 | pages | PDF | 1290 KB
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel idea of Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth century.

Financing Our Anthropocene:
How Wall Street, Main Street and Central Banks Can Manage, Fund and Hedge Our Global Commons
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031232844 | 116 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB

Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene
by Edward H. Huijbens
English | 2021 | ISBN: 036756646X | 214 Pages | True PDF | 19 MB

Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests By Nicholas C. Kawa
2016 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1477307990 | PDF | 12 MB
Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world's largest tropical rainforest. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have shaped their environment, describing in vivid detail their use and management of the region's soils, plants, and forests. At the same time, he highlights the ways in which the Amazonian environment resists human manipulation and control―a vital reminder in this time of perceived human dominance. Written in engaging, accessible prose, Amazonia in the Anthropocene offers an innovative contribution to debates about humanity's place on the planet, encouraging deeper ecocentric thinking and a more inclusive vision of ecology for the future.

Deep Learning for Cognitive Computing Systems
by M.G. Sumithra, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Celestine Iwendi, Anto Merline Manoharan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3110745623 | 236 pages | True PDF EPUB | 78.92 MB