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ClearThe Task of Envisioning Security for the Anthropocene
Not directly relevant to microplastics — this is a political science and philosophy essay arguing for a broader, holistic concept of security in the Anthropocene that encompasses climate change, ecosystem degradation, and pandemics.
Water security in the polycrisis: between negative and positive tipping points
This review examines how water security is threatened by multiple converging crises in the Anthropocene, including climate change, conflict, and pollution including microplastics. The study suggests that investments in institutional mechanisms, technical innovations, and environmental cooperation are needed to transition from negative to positive tipping points in water management.
Multispecies Pasts and the Possibilities of Multispecies Futures in the Age of the Anthropocene
This theoretical paper examines how the Anthropocene challenges the human/nature divide, arguing from an archaeological perspective that understanding multispecies entanglements in the past is essential for envisioning more inclusive multispecies futures.
A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene
This paper presents a framework for building resilience at the individual, community, and planetary levels, developed through a summit of over 40 researchers, psychologists, and community leaders. The authors argue that addressing the current environmental crisis requires integrating inner well-being with broader ecological and social resilience. The framework is intended to guide organizations and governments in making decisions that account for the interconnected nature of human and environmental health.
¿Antropoceno? Riesgos eco‐sociales y geopolítica global: una visión desde la ecología política.
This Spanish-language political ecology essay examines the concept of the Anthropocene — the proposed new geological epoch defined by human influence on Earth systems — and its geopolitical implications. The author discusses how the Great Acceleration of industrial activity has created eco-social risks including plastic pollution and climate change that affect all of humanity.
From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological Transition
This philosophical and scientific paper frames the current environmental crisis as an Anthropocene crisis involving not just climate change but the destabilization of the entire Earth system, including plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. The author argues that ecological transition requires systemic change in human-nature relationships.
Anthropocene: The Challenges for a New World
This review examines the concept of the Anthropocene, tracing how humanity has become a geological force rivalling natural processes, with particular attention to the environmental challenges this new epoch presents for Earth system science.
Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization
This study examines global ocean governance frameworks and argues that achieving 'ecological civilization' requires coordinated international responses to mounting threats including climate change, ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and overexploitation of marine resources.
Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
Anthropocene
This review examines how anthropologists have engaged with the concept of the 'Anthropocene', identifying four main disciplinary approaches to the phenomena of human-driven planetary change including climate change and mass extinction. Researchers found that the term functions both as a scientific descriptor of Earth system disruption and as a politically and morally loaded concept within and beyond academia.
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
This report examines the intersection of environmental crises and global security risks, noting that indicators of both environmental decline and insecurity are rising simultaneously. The study highlights how compound risks from pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss contribute to instability, and calls for systemic changes to address these interconnected threats.
Making the Case for the Humanities’ Take on the Crucial Issue of Ecological Crisis
This paper argues for the importance of humanities perspectives in addressing the ecological crisis, contending that scientific approaches alone are insufficient and that ethical, cultural, and social analysis are essential for understanding and responding to environmental challenges.
A planetary vision for one health
This planetary health perspective synthesized findings from the 2015 Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission report on human health in the Anthropocene, identifying climate change, deforestation, ocean acidification, zoonotic disease, biodiversity loss, and air pollution as interconnected threats to human wellbeing. The authors call for immediate, evidence-based cross-disciplinary policy responses to address planetary boundaries that underpin human health.
Symbiosis and the Anthropocene
Researchers examined how human-driven environmental changes in the Anthropocene — the current era defined by humanity's outsized impact on Earth — are disrupting symbiotic relationships between organisms that ecosystems depend on. The review argues that symbioses, from coral-algae partnerships to gut microbiomes, are keystone processes that must be considered when assessing how pollution, climate change, and habitat loss reshape entire ecosystems.
The Earth-System Humanization Event (ESHE)
This paper argues that the Anthropocene represents a major Earth-system humanization event (ESHE), proposing a framework for understanding the geological and ecological significance of humanity's growing influence on Earth's systems.
Paradigm shifts for a planetary emergency: Towards an anthropocenography for urban coastal research at False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
This essay draws on Anthropocene scholarship to propose four interdisciplinary approaches for integrating social and natural sciences in urban coastal research, using False Bay in Cape Town as a case study for transdisciplinary environmental science.
Precursors and Antecedents of the Anthropocene
This review examines historical and prehistoric precursors to the Anthropocene, exploring whether earlier biological agents triggered comparable Earth-system transformations and identifying antecedents in human-nature relations that foreshadow the current era of planetary-scale human impact.
Multispecies sustainability
This perspective paper argues that the conventional concept of sustainability — centered on human needs across generations — must be expanded to 'multispecies sustainability' that explicitly recognizes the interdependent needs of all living species, not just humans.
Navigating Crises of Scale in the Anthropocene
This article examines the emotional and methodological challenges anthropologists face when studying Anthropocene-scale crises such as plastic pollution, arguing for a 'pragmatic melioration' stance focused on harm reduction and problem-solving rather than comprehensive solutions. The authors use their work on plastics as a case study for sustaining researcher resilience when engaged with large-scale ecological and social crises.
Glossary
This glossary provides definitions for key terms in international relations and political science, including concepts such as the Anthropocene -- defined as the geological epoch in which human activity has left detectable imprints including radioactive fallout, microplastics, and heavy metals -- along with political science terminology covering capitalism, bipolarity, and related concepts.
The Anthropocene within the Geological Time Scale: a response to fundamental questions
This paper responded to fundamental questions about the Anthropocene as a formal geological time unit, addressing evidence for its recognition within the Geological Time Scale and clarifying the stratigraphic criteria used to define it.
Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security
This paper poses five urgent research questions on ecological security, including antimicrobial resistance amplification, physiological consequences of pollution including microplastics, loss of nature's contributions to wellbeing, ecological tipping points, and cascading security risks.
Meaning in Anthropocene Life
This is a conference proceedings summary featuring presentations on finding meaning in life during the Anthropocene, including perspectives from psychology, theology, and philosophy addressing climate change, environmental guilt, and existential responses to ecological crisis; it does not present original empirical research on microplastics.
Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems
This study examined how to design sustainable and secure future seafood systems capable of feeding a growing global population, integrating ecological, social, and economic dimensions of seafood production. The authors identified microplastic contamination of marine food chains as one of multiple threats to seafood system sustainability and security.