Paradigm dressed as epoch: The ideology of the anthropocene

Environmental Values

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-29

  Baskin, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Earth management; Environmental politics; Geoengineering; Ideology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; IDEOLOGY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFT;

EID: 84920869461     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: 17527015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327115X14183182353746     Document Type: Article

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