Urgency in the Anthropocene

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Amanda H. Lynch (Director, Brown University) Siri Veland (Assistant Professor, Brown University)

Urgency in the Anthropocene

Amanda H. Lynch (Director, Brown University), Siri Veland (Assistant Professor, Brown University)

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MIT Press
06 November 2018

Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: Urgency in the Anthropocene

A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability.

Is this the Anthropocene, the age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth? The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty and law. The once unacceptable-geoengineering technology, for example, or authoritarian decision making-are now anticipated and even demanded by some. To counter this, Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland propose a reframing of the Anthropocene-seeing it not as a race against catastrophe but as an age of emerging coexistence with earth system variability.

Lynch and Veland examine the interplay between our new state of ostensible urgency and the means by which this urgency is identified and addressed. They examine how societies, including Indigenous societies, have understood such interplays; explore how extreme weather and climate weave into the Anthropocene narrative; consider the tension between the short time scale of disasters and the longer time scale of sustainability; and discuss both international and national approaches to Anthropocene governance. Finally, they argue for an Anthropocene of coexistence that embraces both human dignity and sustainability.

By: Amanda H. Lynch (Director Brown University), Siri Veland (Assistant Professor, Brown University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9780262535762
ISBN 10: 0262535769
Series: Urgency in the Anthropocene
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 06 November 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amanda H. Lynch is Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University, where she is also Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. Siri Veland is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and Senior Researcher at Nordland Research Institute, Norway.

Reviews for Urgency in the Anthropocene

Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland's Urgency in the Anthropocene...is a fascinating and trenchant analysis of the core beliefs and ideas that motivate current political responses to global warming. —New Books Network