Event: 71. ZUG-Minisymposium / 4th Rachel Carson Center Lecture

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Title: 71. ZUG-Minisymposium / 4th Rachel Carson Center Lecture
Description:

The First Great Acceleration and the Opening of the Anthropocene, 1830-1913

Presentation:
Gregory T. Cushman
Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas, USA
Research Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany

Moderation: Verena Winiwarter

Conventional discussion of the Anthropocene has labeled the period since World War 2 as the "Great Acceleration." This talk will present compelling evidence, grounded in the global history of chemistry, metallurgy, steam-powered transport, and land cover change that the period from 1830 to 1913 is far more deserving of the label Great Acceleration and recognition as a starting point for the "human epoch" of geological history.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Great Acceleration, geological history
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City: Wien
Country: Austria
Period: on 03.12.2015
Veranstaltungsstatus:
Contact e-mail: -
Homepage: http://www.umweltgeschichte.uni-klu.ac.at/index,3193,Minisymposien.html

Organizers
Employees Time period
Verena Winiwarter
Verena.Winiwarter@aau.at
Research activities
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  • 03.12.2015 - 03.12.2015

Assignment
Organisational unit
Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung
  Institut für Soziale Ökologie (BOKU)
Schottenfeldgasse 29
1071 Wien
Austria
http://www.iff.ac.at/socec/
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Funding type Other
Event type
  • Symposium/Colloquium
Subject areas
  • 105905 - Environmental protection
  • 107004 - Human ecology
  • 105904 - Environmental research
  • 601008 - Science of history
Research Cluster
  • Sustainability
Group of participants
  • Mainly national
Event focus
  • Science to Science (Quality indicator: n.a.)
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Cooperations
Organisation Address
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich
Munich
Germany
DE  Munich

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