Description: This is a book about how politics, government - and much else - needs to change in response to the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.
Review Quotes: "The book is persuasive and beautifull written, bringing forth a realistic and optimistic account of how humanscan reorganize themselves to better govern in the emerging epochâPerhaps most importantly, the book offers hope that human reason and communication with one another and with the Earth system can rise to the challenges of the Anthropocene." -- Jen Iris Allan, Cardiff Unviersity, EIA
"This is a salutatory warning for social scientists who study international institutions and the United Nations system, but one that needs to be taken seriously especially when it runs against the overwhelming impetus to be "policy relevant" to generate solutions to what are presented as solvable "problems". The Anthropocene requires more fundamental thinking, and as such this volume is a useful antidote to technocratic assumptions that there are simple solutions to issues that are better coped with reflexively as sets of interconnected complicated changing circumstances." -- Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Academic Council on the United Nations System