The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal. (April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oldfield, Frank; Barnosky, Anthony D; Dearing, John; Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; McNeill, John; Steffen, Will; Zalasiewicz, Jan
• Is Part Of: Anthropocene review. Volume 1:Number 1(2014)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 7
• Publication Date: 2014-04
• Subjects: Anthropocene -- Earth System -- Great Acceleration -- human environmental impacts -- Industrial Revolution; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals; Global environmental change -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/2053019613500445
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2053-0196

Abstract

Human activities now play a major, integral and ever-increasing role in the functioning of the Earth System. This fact lies at the heart of the notion of the Anthropocene. Documenting, understanding and responding to the present and future challenges posed by the recent, dramatic changes in the relationship between humans and their environment thus becomes an imperative for human society. This editorial presents the rationale for engaging with the Anthropocene across a wide range of disciplines from engineering and environmental science to the social sciences and humanities. This essentially transdisciplinary engagement requires the establishment of a new journal, The Anthropocene Review, the scope of which is outlined in this editorial.