Developing a human-environment timeline: a chronology of ideas and events for the anthropocene
dc.contributor.author | Larsen, Thomas Barclay | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-16T20:09:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-16T20:09:39Z | |
dc.date.graduationmonth | December | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2018-12-01 | |
dc.date.published | 2018 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Clearly, the character of the relationship between humans and their environment has changed over time. Scholars have developed a geologic timeline and a timeline for life, but there is not a human-environment timeline. The proposed new geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is inadequate for encapsulating the diversity of the human-environment relationship throughout history and prehistory. This dissertation initiates conversation about developing an official human-environment timeline. Oriented from the perspective of a geographer, this exploratory research involved the qualitative analysis of human-environment events and ideas from a series of four geographic encyclopedias. A human-environment timeline emerged from this research, as well as a hierarchical typology of time periods: durations, duration revolutions, scenes, scene transitions, and intervals. The timeline was then interpreted according to four “ways of knowing”: normal science, cultural ecology, political ecology, and humanistic geography. This research supports inquiry into how time periods can be employed to better understand and communicate the human-environment relationship through time. | en_US |
dc.description.advisor | John A. Harrington Jr | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.department | Department of Geography | en_US |
dc.description.level | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/39327 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | en_US |
dc.subject | Human-Environment | en_US |
dc.subject | Periodization | en_US |
dc.subject | Timeline | en_US |
dc.title | Developing a human-environment timeline: a chronology of ideas and events for the anthropocene | en_US |
dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
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