The concept of palimpsest in a reconceptualization of biodiversity conservation

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0533
Nama Orang :	Rivera-Núñez, Tlacaelel Fargher, Lane






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge - Crime, 2020

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Abstrak	The concept of the Anthropocene has highlighted the significant global impact of human activities on ecological systems on a geological scale (Crutzen 2002). This concept has come to significantly influence a scientific and political agenda orientated towards documenting and denouncing multiple negative anthropogenic factors that have led to global change. Nevertheless, not all large-scale environmental transformations by human societies have been intrinsically destructive. Many indigenous communities in the Neotropics, Palearctic, sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Indo-Malaya and Australasia have radically albeit often constructively modified the physical and biotic conditions of the ecological systems that they inhabit (Ellis 2015). It is necessary to revise the assumption that human actions always degrade the environment, through a reconceptualization that we have previously called anthropogenesis (Rivera-Núñez et al. 2020). Instead of the naïve portrayal of the good Anthropocene (Hamilton 2015, Fremaux & Barry 2019), anthropogenesis seeks to enrich the biodiversity debate with the historical human expressions of constructed environments that the conservation-focused Edenic sciences and the pristine syndrome (Robbins & Moore 2013) tend to ignore, or Anthropo-not-see (de la Cadena 2019). The objective of this comment paper is to urge the academic community, grassroots organizations and governments to employ a concept of palimpsest (from the Ancient Greek for again scraped, implying that something is scraped clear ready to be used again) in the reconceptualization of biodiversity conservation from a historical perspective that implements research and policy agendas that incorporate the human propensity for environmental construction in a deeper and more inclusive manner.
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	Keywords: anthropogenesis; anthropo-not-see; ecological handprints; historical landscapes; humanmediated disturbances; indigenous communities; palimpsest; pristine syndrome
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Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0533
Entri Sumber Data	Cambridge - Crime
Entri Utama Nama orang	Rivera-Núñez, Tlacaelel; Fargher, Lane
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 48, no. 1, p. 1-4
Barcode	eja-21-0533
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	The concept of palimpsest in a reconceptualization of biodiversity conservation
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional