Contents
2Asia’s Oceanic Anthropocene: How Political Elites and Global Offshore Oil Exploitation Moved Asian Marine Regions into the New Epoch
3Ocean and Orbit: Verticality at Sea from Seadromes to Rocket Launches and Light Islands
4Terrestrial Mindsets and the Origins of Sea Surface Urbanization in Tokyo Bay
5Ocean-to-Land Globalization: Communication, Navigation, and Earth’s Production Centers
6Environmentalisms Clashing: Buckminster Fuller, Floating Structures, and US Urban Waterfronts since the Late 1960s
7Economies and Ecologies of Energy Generation on Islands: Hawaiian Metabolism’s Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
8Dual Habitats above and below the Surface: Japanese Mariculture Research, Plastics, and the Global Concentration of Marine Biomass and Nutrients
9The Invasive Threat of Slowly Traveling Ecosystems: Artificial Islands and Biosphere Integrity in the Oceanic Anthropocene
10A Paradigm Shift: Earth’s Amphibious Transformation and the Oceanic Anthropocene