The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet - Hardcover

Schwägerl, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0907791549 ISBN 13: 9780907791546

Publisher: Synergetic Press, 2014

Synopsis

For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. According to Paul Crutzen, we are now living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, a time in which human dominance of Earth’s biological, chemical and geological processes is an undeniable reality, presenting us with a new role as planetary stewards.

This is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive overview of our planetary situation and outlook. Schwägerl off ers tools to create realistic solutions to our ecological crises, and shares his vision of a world that balances ecological sustainability, economic prosperity, political justice and cultural vibrancy.

About this title

About the Author:

Christian Schwägerl is a Berlin-based journalist, author and biologist. After many years as a science and environment staff correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Newspaper and DER SPIEGEL magazine, he now works as a freelance writer for GEO, Cicero and DIE ZEIT science magazine as well as other leading media. He is a past winner of the "Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism," and the "Econsense Journalism Award." Schwägerl is a co-creator and project leader of The Anthropocene Project, a three-year collaboration at Haus der Kulturen der Welt cultural center in Berlin.

Review:

"This is a splendid introduction to the Anthropocene by one of its most eloquent celebrants."
-- Diane Ackerman, author of The Human Age

"...authorative and engaging. Read, enjoy and recommend..."

--Frank Oldfield, The Anthropocene Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Synergetic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0907791549
• ISBN 13: 9780907791546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248