The Trajectory of the Anthropocene: the Great Acceleration

Conference on the history of the human-environment relationship (Hibbard et al. 2006). The term echoed Karl Polanyi’s phrase “The Great Transformation”, and in his book by the same name (Polanyi 1944) Polanyi put forward a holistic understanding of the nature of modern societies, including mentality, behaviour, structure and more.

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