The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia.

Bostock, Helen C.; Lowe, David J.; Gillespie, Richard; Priestley, Rebecca; Newnham, Rewi M.; Mooney, Scott D.

The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia.

dc.contributor.author	Bostock, Helen C.	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Lowe, David J.	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Gillespie, Richard	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Priestley, Rebecca	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Newnham, Rewi M.	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Mooney, Scott D.	en_NZ
dc.contributor.editor	Fitzsimmons, K	en_NZ
dc.contributor.editor	Atahan, P	en_NZ
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-21T21:01:00Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-21	en_NZ
dc.date.available	2015-07-21T21:01:00Z
dc.date.issued	2015-07-21	en_NZ
dc.description.abstract	As early as the late 19th Century, several scientists had suggested that humans were starting to influence the physical environment of planet Earth (e.g. Marsh, 1864; Stoppani, 1873; Arrhenius, 1896; Chamberlain, 1897). This idea was resurrected and expanded in 2000 by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, and the late Eugene Stoermer, a professor of biology specialising in diatoms, who suggested that we had left the Holocene and entered the “Anthropocene” (Crutzen and Stoermer, 2000). As summarised by Steffen et al. (2011) and Wolfe et al. (2013), these iconoclastic scientists were referring to the Anthropocene as the interval of demonstrable human alteration of global biogeochemical cycles, beginning subtly in the late 18th Century following James Watt’s invention of the coal-fired steam engine, and accelerating markedly in the mid-20th Century (termed “The Great Acceleration”). Thus Crutzen and Stoermer (2000) argued that the Anthropocene should be an epoch, and for a starting date at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (Monastersky, 2015).
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dc.identifier.citation	Bostock, H. C., Lowe, D. J., Gillespie, R., Priestley, R., Newnham, R. M., & Mooney, S. D. (2015). The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia. Quaternary Australasia, 32(1), 7–16.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0811-0433	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9477
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)	en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOf	Quaternary Australasia	en_NZ
dc.relation.uri	http://aqua.org.au/?page_id=103
dc.rights	© 2015 Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA). Used with permission.
dc.title	The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia.	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article
pubs.begin-page	7
pubs.elements-id	128842
pubs.end-page	16
pubs.issue	1	en_NZ
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FSEN
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FSEN/School of Science
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_NZ
pubs.volume	32	en_NZ