Research Catalog

Title

Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip V. Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck.

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors

• Kelly, Jason M.
• Scarpino, Philip V.
• Berry, Helen, 1969-
• Syvitski, James P. M.
• Meybeck, M. (Michel)

Description

xxvii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines--from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy--this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Rivers > Environmental aspects
• Human ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- Methods. Ecosystem service-based approaches for status assessment of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- Histories. An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine, 1780-2010 / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene world / Anthropocene waters : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- Experiences. The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin.

ISBN

• 9780520295025
• 0520295021
• 9780520967939 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017026927
• 40027779351

OCLC

• ocn962233668
• 962233668
• SCSB-8960337

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries