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10.4 The vulnerability of industrialized resource systems: two case

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    anthropocene

    A term bestowed by Noble Laureate Paul Crutzen to describe the last 200-year period of human industrialization. The prefix “anthro” points to the decisive impact of human population growth and technological development on the planetary biosphere since 1800, as its principal agents of change superceding all other factors.

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