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From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills 从渐进式变化到彻底的断裂:重新思考日常家庭可持续性实践作为生存技能

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973008

Chrissie Gibson, L. Head, Chantel Carr

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引用次数: 47

On the Possibilities of a Charming Anthropocene 论迷人人类世的可能性

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973005

H. Buck

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引用次数: 71

Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments 转变家庭消费:从Backcasting到HomeLabs实验

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-03-02 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.1000948

Anna R. Davies, R. Doyle

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引用次数: 57

Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation—An Introduction 未来:想象社会生态转型——导论

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-03-02 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.1000893

Bruce Braun

引用次数: 80

Toward an Interim Politics of Resourcefulness for the Anthropocene 走向人类世足智多谋的临时政治

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-03-02 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.1001002

Kate Derickson, D. Mackinnon

引用次数: 58

The Future of Environmental Expertise 环境专业知识的未来

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.988099

R. Lave

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引用次数: 63

The Art of Socioecological Transformation 社会生态转型的艺术

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.988103

H. Hawkins, S. Marston, Mrill Ingram, Elizabeth R. Straughan

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引用次数: 43

When Horses Won't Eat: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene 当马不吃东西的时候:启示录和人类世

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.988100

Franklin Ginn

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引用次数: 44

Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise 适应海平面上升的时间性

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.988101

R. Fincher, J. Barnett, S. Graham

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引用次数: 34

The Place and Time of the Political in Urban Political Ecology: Contested Imaginations of a River's Future 城市政治生态中政治的地点和时间:对河流未来的争议想象

Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers Pub Date : 2015-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.988102

R. Holifield, N. Schuelke

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引用次数: 43