Anthropogenic Topics (The Anthropocene)
- Master Topics
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- Water Management
- Flood Hazard Management
- Stormwater
- Climate
- Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding
- The Law
- Vegetation and Revegetation
- Agriculture
- Forestry
- Restoration
- Biota
- Conservation Using Regulation
- Rural Land Use
- Industrial Land Use
- Salmon Recovery
- Land Cover and Development
- Transportation Networks
- Watershed Planning
- Governments
- Conservation Using Acquisition
- Salish Sea References
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Our tree of Topic pages is divided into two large trunks. Anthropogenic Topics encompass information about the human use and transformation of the Salish Sea and surrounding lands. These are topics that would not occur but for the colonization and settlement of the Salish Sea by an industrial culture. We currently use four branches to organize information about these effects. Land Use describes the broadscale conversation of the land to human purposes, including Forestry, Agriculture, Industrial as well as two patterns of settlement: Urban and Rural. This also includes land reserved as Conservation Lands. Infrastructure topics concern the various constructed systems that enable these uses, a network of roads, walls, pipes, wires, and rails that are the enabling tools of the Anthropocene, and with a significant limb concerning Water Management. We have a branch devoted to Climate Change. Finally, we have devoted a large limb to Socioeconomics which encompasses all the relationship systems and behaviors that we have evolved that make it all possible. Some topics in the socioeconomics categories reference large scale phenomena that result from cultural patterns or economic decisions. For example, Toxics describe a wide range of past and current decisions to release hazardous substances into the ecosystem. Nutrient Pollution describes ongoing decisions to distribute and release nutrients into the ecosystem. Because these phenomena occur across multiple land uses and infrastructures, and represent the cummulative outcome of many social-economic decisions, we organize these topics in this way. Other-than-human topics are categorized as Ecosystem Topics which focus on the processes, structures, and functions of ecosystems as they evolves and behaves outside of our industrial systems. We recognize that this dichotomy is both arbitrary and very useful, and that human activities and effects can be both negative and positive.
Notes
We are collecting general notes about the patterns and relationships among anthropogenic topics here.
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