This volume makes a vital contribution to the Anthropocene debate. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, global environmental politics and governance, and sustainable development

Thomas Hickmann is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Potsdam in Germany.

Lena Partzsch is a Professor of Environmental and Development Policy at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Philipp Pattberg is a Professor of Transnational Environmental Governance and Policy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

Sabine Weiland is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Lille Catholic University, affiliated with the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) in France.

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1. Introduction: A Political Science Perspective on the Anthropocene

Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg and Sabine Weiland

I Theories and Concepts

2. A Natural History for the 21st century: Rethinking the Anthropocene Narrative with Arendt and Adorno

Maike Weißpflug

3. Disentangling Descriptions and Responses to the Anthropocene: Norms and Implications of Scientific Representations of the Earth System

Johannes Lundershausen

4. The Anthropocene and Governance: Critical Reflections on Conceptual Relations

Basil Bornemann

5. International Theory in the Anthropocene: Moving beyond Species, State, and Governance

Franziska Müller

II Governance and Practices

6. Security Studies and the Discourse on the Anthropocene: Shortcomings, Challenges, and Opportunities

Judith Nora Hardt

7. Global Climate Governance as Boundary Object: Making the Meaning of the Anthropocene

Lukas Hermwille

8. From 'Talking the Talk" to "Walking the Walk"? Multi-Level Global Governance of the Anthropocene in Indonesia

Chris Höhne

9. Agricultural Governance in the Anthropocene: A Research Agenda

Sandra Schwindenhammer

III Critical Perspectives and Implications

10. Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes in the Anthropocene

Till Hermanns and Qirui Li

11. The Nuclear Legacy in the Anthropocene: Interrelations between Nature, Technology, and Society

Dörte Themann and Achim Brunnengräber

12. Worlds Apart? The Global South and the Anthropocene

Jens Marquardt

13. The Anthropocene Concept as a Wake-Up Call for Reforming Democracy

Jörg Tremmel

14. Conclusions: Towards a 'Deep Debate' on the Anthropocene

Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg and Sabine Weiland

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