Environmental Visualization in the Anthropocene: Technologies, Aesthetics, Ethics
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Anthropocene Ethics:
The International Geosphere Biosphere Program has recently suggested that we now live in a new era of natural history, the Anthropocene, one marked by the emergence of a new series of geological, biological and climatological forcing mechanisms in the biosphere. These new forcing agents are changing the composition of trace gases in the atmosphere, moving large amounts of material all over the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Culture
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0899-2363,1527-8018
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2392030