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Although Earth has undergone many periods of significant environmental change, the planet’s environment has been unusually stable for the past 10,000 years1–3. This period of stability — known to geologists as the Holocene — has seen human civilizations arise, develop and thrive. Such stability may now be under threat. Since the Industrial Revolution, a new era has arisen, the Anthropocene4, in which human actions have become the main driver of global environmental changes. This could see human activities push the Earth system outside the stable environmental state of the Holocene, with consequences that are detrimental or even catastrophic for large parts of the world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Human Development, Climate Change |
| Author Affiliation: | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Subjects: | Environmental Science |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2012 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2012 10:27 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/461472a |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/7946 |
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