• Great Acceleration
    In Nathanaƫl Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 821-824. 2023.
    This chapter reviews the origins and meaning of the concept The Great Acceleration. In the sense now current in global change science and Earth System science, and increasingly current in environmental history, the term was coined in 2005. It refers to the rapid expansion of various socio-economic driving forces, including energy use, population growth and economic growth, and the resulting rapid alteration of key indicators of the Earth System such as climate, atmospheric chemistry, ocean chemi…Read more