The Politics of the Anthropocene

John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Centenary Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. He is best known for his contributions in democratic theory and practice and environmental politics. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011), and the author of many books, including The Politics of the Earth (3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2013).Jonathan Pickering is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. His research focuses on global environmental governance, climate ethics and policy, and deliberative democracy. His research has been published in a range of journals including Climate Policy, Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics, International Environmental Agreements, and World Development.

• 1: Anthropocene: The Good, the Bad, and the Inescapable 2: Governance in the Holocene 3: Governance in the Anthropocene 4: Planetary Justice 5: Sustainability 6: Who Will Form the Anthropocene? 7: Democratic Anthropocene 8: Conclusion: A Practical Politics of the Anthropocene

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 epochPerhaps 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.