Zachary Caple
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 222106 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zachary Caple |
| PRENOMES | Zachary |
| SOBRENOME | Caple |
| ASSINATURA | CAPLE Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0383-2844 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Chemical fertilizers trigger the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event
In Western Denmark, commercial agriculture is displacing nutrient-poor heaths—a long-established anthropogenic shrubland. Chemical fertilizers are essential to this transformation. This paper explores the historical erasure of the heaths as a process of Holocene-to-Anthropocene state change propelled by the industrialization of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Working against the universality of Anthropocene discourses that presume a clean bre…
Infrastructural cascades
Infrastructure projects are a hallmark of the industrial world and a driving force of the Anthropocene. This article develops an approach for studying the historical emergence and rippling ecological effects of infrastructure within an analytical frame that we call infrastructural cascades (IC). Drawing on the notion of trophic cascade from ecology, we argue that infrastructures should be conceptualized as nodes in metabolic capitalist systems an…
The wood storks of Lake Somerset
Challenging the universality of the Anthropocene Epoch, this article argues for a new conceptualization of the planetary situation focused on the landscape complexities of the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event . I ground this perspective with a historical and ethnographic tour of Lake Somerset, a water-filled phosphate pit in Central Florida that has become habitat for a colony of endangered wood storks. Displaced from their native Everglades,…
Amazon vs the Amazon
Capitalist forces shape public consciousness and, by extension, how everyday people imagine environmental matters of concern. This article investigates the historical cycling of the three most influential green imaginaries of Western neoliberalism: biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change. Using the Amazon rainforest and Amazon.com as icons of the clash between capitalism and nature, we investigate how shifting neoliberal fashions cre…
Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark. To make a living from the heaths, people concentrated the heath's limited fertility through pastoralism, swidden agriculture, and/or manuring. At different points in time, th…
Amazon vs the Amazon
Capitalist forces shape public consciousness and, by extension, how everyday people imagine environmental matters of concern. This article investigates the historical cycling of the three most influential green imaginaries of Western neoliberalism: biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change. Using the Amazon rainforest and Amazon.com as icons of the clash between capitalism and nature, we investigate how shifting neoliberal fashions cre…
The wood storks of Lake Somerset
Challenging the universality of the Anthropocene Epoch, this article argues for a new conceptualization of the planetary situation focused on the landscape complexities of the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event . I ground this perspective with a historical and ethnographic tour of Lake Somerset, a water-filled phosphate pit in Central Florida that has become habitat for a colony of endangered wood storks. Displaced from their native Everglades,…
Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark. To make a living from the heaths, people concentrated the heath's limited fertility through pastoralism, swidden agriculture, and/or manuring. At different points in time, th…
The wood storks of Lake Somerset
Challenging the universality of the Anthropocene Epoch, this article argues for a new conceptualization of the planetary situation focused on the landscape complexities of the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event . I ground this perspective with a historical and ethnographic tour of Lake Somerset, a water-filled phosphate pit in Central Florida that has become habitat for a colony of endangered wood storks. Displaced from their native Everglades,…
Amazon vs the Amazon
Capitalist forces shape public consciousness and, by extension, how everyday people imagine environmental matters of concern. This article investigates the historical cycling of the three most influential green imaginaries of Western neoliberalism: biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change. Using the Amazon rainforest and Amazon.com as icons of the clash between capitalism and nature, we investigate how shifting neoliberal fashions cre…
Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark. To make a living from the heaths, people concentrated the heath's limited fertility through pastoralism, swidden agriculture, and/or manuring. At different points in time, th…
Chemical fertilizers trigger the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event
In Western Denmark, commercial agriculture is displacing nutrient-poor heaths—a long-established anthropogenic shrubland. Chemical fertilizers are essential to this transformation. This paper explores the historical erasure of the heaths as a process of Holocene-to-Anthropocene state change propelled by the industrialization of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Working against the universality of Anthropocene discourses that presume a clean bre…
Infrastructural cascades
Infrastructure projects are a hallmark of the industrial world and a driving force of the Anthropocene. This article develops an approach for studying the historical emergence and rippling ecological effects of infrastructure within an analytical frame that we call infrastructural cascades (IC). Drawing on the notion of trophic cascade from ecology, we argue that infrastructures should be conceptualized as nodes in metabolic capitalist systems an…
Geography (3 obras) · Anthropocene (2 obras) · Biology (2 obras) · Ecology (2 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 obras) · Actor–network theory (1 obras) · Affordance (1 obras)