Mark Maslin

Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. This conversation explores Mark Maslin’s research on the Anthropocene which according to his definition began when human impacts on the planet irrevocably started to change the course of the earth’s biological and geographical trajectory, leading to climate change, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and more.

This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation.




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Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow CollectionConversations About Anthropology & Sociology, which is available in paperback, hardcover and electronic format.