Drawing together a range of key thinkers in the field, this volume provides one of the first authoritative assessments of global environmental politics and governance in the Anthropocene, reflecting on how the planetary scale crisis changes the ways in which humans respond to the challenge.

Philipp Pattberg is Professor of Transnational Environmental Governance at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Fariborz Zelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.

1. Global environmental governance in the Anthropocene: An introduction Fariborz Zelli and Philipp Pattberg Part I Making Sense of the Anthropocene 2. The Anthropocene and the body ecologic Marcel Wissenburg 3. The sense of an ending? Nature and the Anthropocene Manuel Arias-Maldonado 4. Anthropocene: Delusion, celebration and concern Simon Hailwood 5. A fair distribution within the Anthropocene: A normative conception of sustainable development Simon Meisch PART II Institutions in the Anthropocene 6. Mapping institutional complexity in the Anthropocene: A network approach Oscar Widerberg 7. Transnational governance towards sustainable biofuels: Exploring a polycentric view Christine Moser and Robert Bailis 8. Governing the Artic in the era of the Anthropocene: Does corporate authority matter in Arctic shipping governance? Judith van Leeuwen 9. International river governance: Extreme events as a trigger for discursive change in the Rhine river basin Christine Prokopf PART III Accountability and Legitimacy in the Anthropocene 10. Democratic accountability in the Anthropocene: Toward a non-legislative model Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett 11. Monitoring commitments made under the Kyoto Protocol: An effective tool for accountability in the Anthropocene? Martina Kühner 12. The legitimacy and transformation of global climate governance in the Anthropocene: Implications for the global South Marija Isailovic 13. The practices of lobbying for rights in the Anthropocene era: Local communities, indigenous peoples and international climate negotiations Linda Wallbott 14. Conclusions: Complexity, responsibility and urgency in the Anthropocene Fariborz Zelli and Philipp Pattberg