View Source | September 22, 2016
A paper authored by sustainability scientists Ariel Anbar and Braden Allenby, along with sustainability fellow Wally Broecker, looks at the Anthropocene as an evolutionary transition to an epoch in which human activity has become one of the most important Earth systems. To successfully navigate this transition, we must develop a fully integrated environmental science that anticipates the responses of the human system alongside other Earth systems, the authors say.