Abstract
In this introduction, we will address the following topics. The first section will deal with the Anthropocene—What is it? When did it start? How did it develop? The second section will show how the concept works as a major bone of contention that divides the academic into those who consider the Anthropocene a planetary catastrophe and those who embrace the human domination over the Earth as a great achievement. The third section considers the biodiversity conservation options in the age of humans. The fourth and final section will provide an overview of this volume.
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For an extensive discussion, see Braje (2015, 373–380).
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Recently, a fourth process—land-system change—has been added to this list (Steffen et al. 2015).
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It is no surprise that Bruckner’s book has been welcomed by skeptical organizations, and that he was guest of the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent source of climate-change denial, delivering a presentation on his book in April 2013 at the House of Lords.
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As Hunter et al. (2014, 664) have pointed out regarding the battle between the two camps: “The conservation arena is large enough to accommodate many people and organizations whose diverse values lead them to different niches that can, with good will and foresight, be far more complementary than competitive”.
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“The indigenous range of a species is the known or inferred distribution generated from historical (written or verbal) records, or physical evidence of the species’ occurrence” (IUNC/SSC 2013, p. 2).
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“Restoration ecology’s emphasis on restoring environments with native species affirmed the importance of invasion ecology, and invasion ecology’s emphasis on the harm caused by a small proportion of introduced species provided important justification for restoration ecology’s preference for native species” (Davis 2006, 49).
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Keulartz, J., Bovenkerk, B. (2016). Changing Relationships with Non-human Animals in the Anthropocene—An Introduction. In: Bovenkerk, B., Keulartz, J. (eds) Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44206-8_1
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