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Author: Liam Heneghan

A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment

An insightful and illuminating discussion of the impact humans have had on Earth

In A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment: The Conceptual Approach, distinguished environmental scientist Liam Heneghan explores the intricate relationships between humanity and Earth in an accessible and engaging style. Replete with real-world examples and drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the author adapts the fundamental conceptual models of the environmental disciplines to assess the risks human beings are taking with their home planet. The conceptual approach of this primer challenges readers to think across multiple disciplines to reveal the “big picture” that is all too often lost in the details of contemporary environmental studies.

Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction to conceptual modeling, showing how systems models can be adapted and applied in a rapidly changing world
• Comprehensive explorations of the human impact on the Earth, including an examination of possible ecological limits and planetary boundaries
• In-depth evaluations of environmental risks, especially, though not limited to, climate change and biodiversity loss
• A guide to contemplating catastrophic risk and the potential for societal collapse without inducing unnecessary anxiety
• An interdisciplinary focus, emphasizing the role of the natural and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanistic disciplines in safeguarding the future

Perfect for students of environmental science and environmental studies, A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students working on environmental themes and practicing professionals in the environmental management community.

A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment The Conceptual Approach 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 A Manifesto for Conceptual Thinking in Environmental Disciplines

1.1 The Necessity of a Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science

1.2 The Necessity of Adapting and Applying Standard Models to Novel Environmental Problems

1.3 The Necessity of Collaborative Approaches to Global Environmental Problems

1.4 The Necessity of Evaluating Risk

1.5 The Necessity of New Ways of Thinking about Environmental Education

1.6 A Note of Alternative Conceptual Framing for Environmental Disciplines

References

2 A Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science

2.1 Facts and Concepts: A Simple Environmental Example

2.2 The “World” as Concept

2.3 From Concepts to Models: Important Terminology

2.4 Components of Successful Conceptual Models

2.5 Coda

References

3 A Short Chapter on the Definition of Definitions

3.1 A Definition of Definition

3.2 Role of Definitions in Scientific Explanations

3.3 Coda

References

Section Two: The Concept of Systems

4 Everything Is Connected: The First Rule of Ecology

4.1 What Is a System?

4.2 Everything Is Connected

4.3 Events, Processes, and System Behavior

4.4 Everything Is Connected…but Some Things Are More Connected Than Others

4.5 Connectivity, System Stability, and Resilience

4.6 Coda

References

5 Complex Environmental Systems

5.1 Introducing Complex Adaptive Systems

5.2 System Boundaries

5.3 A Modular Hierarchical Universe

5.4 Holons and Disciplinary Specialties

5.5 The Regulation of Parts and Wholes

5.6 Emergent Properties

5.7 An Important Aside of Determining System Scale in Science and Policy Collaboration

5.8 Summary

References

Section Three: The Concept of the Environment

6 All or Nothing? Or, What, Exactly, Is an Environment?

6.1 Vague Definitions of the Environment

6.2 The Environmental Mandala

6.3 The Umwelt: The “self‐world”, as Environment

6.4 Human/Environment Interactions: Standard Models

6.5 Modifying the Basic Model: Social Ecological Models

6.6 Modifying the Basic Model: Planetary Sources and Sinks

6.7 Full World Versus Empty World

6.8 Summary

References

7 Life and Environment Are Indissolubly Linked

7.1 An Environmental Definition of Life

7.2 The Transformation of Local Environments

7.3 Can Living Things Transform the Globe? An Introduction to the Gaia Hypothesis

7.4 From Gaia to the Anthropocene

7.5 Coda: From Mandala to Human‐Dominated Planet

References

8 Gaia, the Noösphere, and the Anthropocene

8.1 From Biosphere to the Noösphere

8.2 The Geological Ages of Humankind

8.3 From Noösphere to Anthropocene

8.4 A “Golden Spike” for the Anthropocene

8.5 The Anthropocene Defined

8.6 Coda

References

Section Four: The Concept of Limits

9 The Anthropocene and the Concept of Limits

9.1 The Meaning of Limits: Malthus, Darwin, and Contemporary Ecology

9.2 Limits of the Perfectibility of the Human Being: Energy and Cultural Development

References

10 Modeling the Limits

10.1 Good Anthropocene/Bad Anthropocene

10.2 The Great Acceleration

10.3 Modeling the Limits

10.4 Calculating the Global Ecological Footprint

10.5 Limitations of Ecological Footprinting

10.6 Living in a Safe Place: Planetary Boundaries

10.7 Coda: The Complex Meaning of Limits

References

Section Five: The Concept of Crisis

11 Collapse and the Anthropocene

11.1 Collapse and the Great Silence

11.2 Are the Environmental Sciences Apocalyptic?

11.3 Not Apocalyptic but Catastrophic: Environmental Visions of Collapse

11.4 Definitions at the End of the World

11.5 Ecologizing the End

11.6 Coda: Human Extinction is Not Inevitable (in the Short Term)

References

12 How to Conceive of a (Climate) Crisis

12.1 Assessing Environmental Risk

12.2 Catastrophic Risk: The Doomsday Clock

12.3 Catastrophic Risk Assessment

12.4 Climate Change: A Brief Primer

12.5 Climate Change and Catastrophic Risk

12.6 Coda: A Note on Eco Anxiety

References

13 Risking Life: Basics of Biological Diversity

13.1 Why Is there Not Just One Species of Living Thing?

13.2 Diversity of Life

13.3 What Is a Species?

13.4 A Diversity of Species Concepts

13.5 How Many Species?

13.6 Biodiversity and Its Measurement

13.7 Coda

References

14 Is the Anthropocene Extinction a Global Catastrophe?

14.1 The Naturalness of Extinction: From George Cuvier to Charles Darwin?

14.2 So What, Exactly, Is Extinction?

14.3 What Are the Drivers of Extinction?

14.4 Identifying Mass Extinction

14.5 The Difficulty of Declaring Extinction in an Era of Mass Extinction

14.6 Estimating Extinction Rates during the Sixth Extinction

14.7 Is Biodiversity Loss Potentially Catastrophic?

14.8 Coda: A Role for Ethics

References

Section Six: Conceiving a Future

15 Conceiving a Future

15.1 Looking Back Before Contemplating the Future

15.2 The Anthropocene and the Noösphere

15.3 Ideas at the Interdisciplinary “Trading Zone”

15.4 Coda

References

16 The Three Futures

16.1 The Worst‐Case Scenario

16.2 The Best‐Case Scenario

16.3 The Most Likely Outcome

16.4 Fat‐Tailed Risk

16.5 Revolutionary Transformations

16.6 How to Hack the Future!

References

Index

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