Rispoli describes geoanthropology as “a new domain of research that addresses the relations between the geosphere and anthroposphere and that studies the various mechanisms, dynamics, and pathways that have moved us into the Anthropocene.”

According to Omodeo et al., geoanthropology “seeks to merge an updated version of Earth System research (the geo, including the bio) with cultural theories and histories of socio-material, energetic, and informational flows (the anthropos).”

The article by Renn states that “the aim of geoanthropology is to study the co-evolutionary system created by the addition of the technosphere to the Earth System: the techno–Earth System.”

What is geoanthropology? In a simple and reductive sense, a proposal for a different way of studying the Earth and its human inhabitants. Whereas traditional disciplines separate these two areas, geoanthropology seeks to bring them together within a shared epistemological framework.