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8 - Earth System Democracy

Governing Humanity in the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

Walter F. Baber  and
Robert V. Bartlett
Walter F. Baber
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
Robert V. Bartlett
Affiliation:
University of Vermont
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Over the course of a little more than a decade, an unusually coherent and comprehensive literature has emerged on the demands of effective earth system governance. Informed by the insight that humanity is no longer (and can no longer be) a spectator with respect to global environmental change, the concept of earth system governance recognizes that human actions have had an impact on our planet that has driven, and is driving, its primary ecological systems beyond the range of their natural variability. As a result, humans face a challenge like no other – the necessity to actively and self-consciously govern the environment that sustains us.

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Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene
 , pp. 152 - 163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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