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What is Anthropocene

Chapter 10
Intersecting Health, Livability, and Human Behavior in Urban Environments
The evidence as well as extent of human action that has impacted the environment and the planet’s natural ecosystems.
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Sustainable Cities With Gamification: How Gamification Can Help Improve Citizen Health and Reduce the Carbon Footprint
Vinod Anand Bijlani (Independent Researcher, Australia)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6924-8.ch010
Abstract
This chapter talks about multi-dimensional sustainability by emphasizing the importance of people-participation through behavioral change and persuasive design via gamification technology to bring about a change for good. It describes the criticality of a sustainability performance information platform that brings together all the aspects of a sustainable cities, social, economic, and environmental qualities through intelligent management and operations. This chapter is an attempt for a framework that will lead to greater collaborative efforts towards more intelligent, sustainable cities with improved citizen health.
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Chapter 6
Adults Researching Pre-Schoolers in More-Than-Human Contexts: Rethinking Ethnographer Roles in the Age of the Anthropocene
Relating to the current geological age; characterised as the period during which human activity became the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
Published in Chapter: Adults Researching Pre-Schoolers in More-Than-Human Contexts: Rethinking Ethnographer Roles in the Age of the Anthropocene; From: Educational Research in the Age of Anthropocene
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Chapter 7
The Earth Sciences and Creative Practice: Entering the Anthropocene
A new geological age replacing the Holocene, where nothing in nature makes sense except in the light of human action.
Published in Chapter: The Earth Sciences and Creative Practice: Entering the Anthropocene; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies
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Chapter 6
Water Crisis in Tunisia During the Anthropocene and Great Acceleration Wetlands as Key Sites of Hydrogeological Modifications
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Chapter 12
The Social and Solidarity Economics, Public Policies, and Non-Monetary Economic Practices: The Case of Associative Firms in Loja, Ecuador
Over the last several centuries, much of humanity has had such a negative impact on the environment, as well as other unpredictable consequences, that some scientists have described this period as a new geological age: the era of human impact on the Earth, or Anthropocene.
Published in Chapter: The Social and Solidarity Economics, Public Policies, and Non-Monetary Economic Practices: The Case of Associative Firms in Loja, Ecuador; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Business Models and the New World Economic Order
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Decent Work and the Processes of Informality: The Case of the Wholesale Market of Ambato, Ecuador
Over the last several centuries much of humanity has had such a negative impact on the environment, as well as other unpredictable consequences, that some scientists have described this period of time as a new geological age: the era of human impact on the Earth, or Anthropocene.
Published in Chapter: Decent Work and the Processes of Informality: The Case of the Wholesale Market of Ambato, Ecuador; From: Handbook of Research on Novel Practices and Current Successes in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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Chapter 6
It's the Speciesism, Stupid!: Animal Abolitionism, Environmentalism, and the Mass Media
According to some scientists, the current geological age whose characteristics are highly influenced by human activities.
Published in Chapter: It's the Speciesism, Stupid!: Animal Abolitionism, Environmentalism, and the Mass Media; From: Handbook of Research on Social Marketing and Its Influence on Animal Origin Food Product Consumption
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Public Policies, Traffic Light Signpost Labeling, and Their Implications: The Case of Ecuador
Over the last several centuries, much of humanity has had such a negative impact on the environment, as well as other unpredictable consequences, that some scientists have described this period of time as a new geological age: the era of human impact on the Earth, or Anthropocene.
Published in Chapter: Public Policies, Traffic Light Signpost Labeling, and Their Implications: The Case of Ecuador; From: Handbook of Research on Cyber Approaches to Public Administration and Social Policy
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Chapter 3
Environmental and Health Implications of Plastic Pollution: A Pakistan Perspective
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Chapter 2
Environmental Ethics: When Human Beings and Nature Are Not Two
Point of view which defines Earth's most recent geologic time period as being shaped by humans (anthropogenic), based on the overwhelming power that humans have to alter the main process that rule all the ecosystems present in the biosphere.
Published in Chapter: Environmental Ethics: When Human Beings and Nature Are Not Two; From: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era
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Chapter 6
People-Centered Urban Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Sociocybernetics, Climate Justice, and Adaptation
The current geological epoch in which human activities have had a significant global impact on the earth’s ecosystems.
Published in Chapter: People-Centered Urban Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Sociocybernetics, Climate Justice, and Adaptation; From: Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Social Resilience, and Social Inclusion
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Thoughts on Why and How to Promote Sustainable Practices in Early Years Education
The age of humans, the period of time since humans have begun to have an impact upon the environment of planet earth.
Published in Chapter: Thoughts on Why and How to Promote Sustainable Practices in Early Years Education; From: International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education
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Chapter 11
Response of Erosion to Environmental and Climate Changes During the Anthropocene Within the Endorheic System of Mhabeul, Southeastern Tunisia
The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems.
Published in Chapter: Response of Erosion to Environmental and Climate Changes During the Anthropocene Within the Endorheic System of Mhabeul, Southeastern Tunisia; From: Prevention and Management of Soil Erosion and Torrential Floods
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A Radical More-Than-Human Intersectionality in Ecologically Compromised Times: Toward an Attunement to Nonhumans and Indigenous Knowledges
The current geological epoch characterized by human systems of production and ways of being that have a dominating and often negative influence on climate, ecosystems, the environment, humans, and other-than-humans.
Published in Chapter: A Radical More-Than-Human Intersectionality in Ecologically Compromised Times: Toward an Attunement to Nonhumans and Indigenous Knowledges; From: Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
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Chapter 3
Importance and Implications of Influential, Powerful, and Remarkable Economic Policy Mix: Pre-Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Challenges in Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies
Over the last several centuries much of humanity has had such a negative impact on the environment, as well as other unpredictable consequences, that some scientists have described this period of time as a new geological age: the era of human impact on the Earth, or Anthropocene.
Published in Chapter: Importance and Implications of Influential, Powerful, and Remarkable Economic Policy Mix: Pre-Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Challenges in Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies; From: Handbook of Research on SDGs for Economic Development, Social Development, and Environmental Protection
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