No Safe Space: Navigating the Anthropocene Entanglement

Lecture by Erle C. Ellis, Geography and Environmental Systems - University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD, USA)

  • Date: 15 MAY 2024  from 15:30 to 17:00

  • Event location: Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 - Bologna

  • Type: Lectures

The Anthropocene is defined by the inextricable entanglement of human social and planetary change. The Enlightenment’s model of an understandable, predictable, and manageable space cannot aid us in navigating the realities of a world that is increasingly incomprehensible, unpredictable, unmanageable, and governed by evolving social forces and natures beyond human control.

Welcome to the Anthropocene Entanglement!

Speaker

Prof. Erle C. Ellis

Geography and Environmental Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD, USA)

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Erle Ellis is Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). A Global Highly Cited Researcher, he studies the ecology of human landscapes to inform sustainable stewardship of the biosphere. He teaches environmental science and landscape ecology, which he has also taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Martin School, Lead Author of the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment, Fellow of the Global Land Programme, Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute, and former member of the Anthropocene Working Group. His book, Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction, was published in 2018.