What is the relevance of pyrogeography to the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4189156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Mjs Bowman, David M J S Bowman (0000-0001-8075-124X, University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-76 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Anthropocene Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-0196 • E-ISSN: 2053-020X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2053019614547742 |
| OpenAlex | W2006430261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
A defining feature of both the Anthropocene concept and the new discipline of pyrogeography is combustion of carbon-rich fuels by humans. A key objective of pyrogeography is understanding to what degree landscape fires set by hominins has overwritten natural fires through geological time, and whether these changes had substantial ecological knock-on effects. This research is essential to precisely define the onset of the Anthropocene. Nonetheless, the commonly used imprecise definition that the Anthropocene commenced at 1780 is a useful organising principle for pyrogeography because it provides a framework to understand the synergistic effects of anthropogenic global environment changes in shaping global fire activity following the Industrial Revolution
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Biology · Earth system science · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Political science · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Fire effects on ecosystems · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Landslides and related hazards · Philosophy · Ecology
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Sounding the Alarm
Indigenous fire ecologies, restoration, and territorial sovereignty in the Brazilian Cerrado
Burning the Land
Fiery Arts
Five Core Tenets of Pyrogeography
Fire regime change in western Tasmania between 1830 and 2025
Storytelling
Researching and Teaching the Anthropocene
Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America
Fire in the Earth System
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth
Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia
Geology of mankind
The Anthropocene Review
Contested Identities
Anthropocene
The Palaeoanthropocene - The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change
Fire and human evolution
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
| Citations per year | 0.82 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |