The meaning of the Anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition

Jan Zalasiewicz (), Julia Adeney Thomas, Colin N. Waters, Simon Turner and Martin J. Head

Nature, 2024, vol. 632, issue 8027, 980-984

Abstract: Even though geologists have rejected the designation of an Anthropocene epoch, the idea of a major planetary transition in the mid-twentieth century remains useful across physical and social sciences, the humanities and policy.

Keywords: Environmental sciences; Geology; Society; History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02712-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:632:y:2024:i:8027:d:10.1038_d41586-024-02712-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-02712-y

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().