Earth: a single, complex and rapidly changing system

Dr. Steffen, along with Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and other scientists, contends that the Holocene, the 10,000-year geological epoch since the last ice age, in which the earth's environment has been unusually stable, is being, or has already been, supplanted by an epoch in which human intervention has become a – and perhaps "the" – major driver of environmental change.

In his address, entitled: The Earth System, the Anthropocene and the world's forests, he will explore the nature of the Anthropocene and the possible future trajectories that it might take. The focus will then shift to the implications of the Anthropocene for the future of the world's forests.

Read the interview: http://blog.iufro.org/2017/09/19/earth-a-single-complex-and-rapidly-changing-system/  

Keynote Plenary Session 1
Thursday, 21 September, 10:30 – 12:00,
Rolf Böhme Saal (Konzerthaus Freiburg)
Dr Will Steffen, The Australian National University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, AUSTRALIA

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