Tag Archives: habitability

“Some Reflections on Heritage and Archaeology in the Anthropocene”

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Solli, B., M. Burström, E. Domanska, M. Edgeworth, A. González-Ruibal, C. Holtorf, G. Lucas, T. Oestigaard, L. Smith and C. Witmore. 2011. Norwegian Archaeological Review. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 40-88.
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Are we now living in a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene? Geo-scientists discuss whether there is Continue reading →

“Niche Construction”

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F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, Marcus W. Feldman. 1996. The American Naturalist, Vol. 147, No. 4, pp. 641-648.
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Laland Lab Niche Construction site publications page: https://nicheconstruction.com/resources/reading/
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Organisms, through their metabolism, their activities, and their choices, define, partly create, and partly destroy Continue reading →

“The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”

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Lynn White, Jr. 1967. Science, Vol. 155, No. 3767, pp. 1203-7.
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This article claims that the modern ecological crisis arose out of an ethic derived from Continue reading →

Why “habitability?”

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Environmentalism has plenty of buzzwords already–sustainability and resiliency come right to mind. Does it make sense to propose another? In a sense that is what we are doing by making habitability the focus of this blog. In this initial post I’d like to try to suggest why that theme is worth exploring—with the acknowledgment from the outset that its content is not well developed.

In a very obvious way discussions of the Anthropocene immediately raise the question of the future habitability of the planet. The Anthropocene idea was linked early to Continue reading →