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Forest dynamics. --- Global environmental change.

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'Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear global environmental change and emerging technologies, like engineering the planet, tipping points, epidemic surprise or increased connectivity between financial markets, commodity markets, ecosystem services and underlying technologies. In a truly novel way, Galaz moves governance research to the very front of sustainability science and resilience thinking 'Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics' is indeed a groundbreaking contribution, highly recommended!'--Carl Folke, Stockholm University, Sweden. 'The idea of the Anthropocene highlights urgent environmental, health and economic challenges facing humanity. This book shows clearly why shifts in power and governance must be core to our responses, but also that new, creative, multi-scale approaches are needed. Candid, reflective and richly-illustrated, this is a must-read contribution to the debate of our age about how to build sustainable futures.'--Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. 'The planetary boundaries concept has generated wide discussion and debate, from the research community through to the institution and governance communities that seek to implement the concept. This book fills a very important gap in the discourse. It integrates the basic science that underpins the concept and the innovative approaches that governance researchers and practitioners are applying, to put planetary boundaries into practice. The book's strengths are its excellent description of the science itself, its deft use of that science to inform the development of governance approaches and its application of state-of-the-art research on institutions. I can highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get beyond the often shallow commentary on and criticisms of the planetary boundaries concept to a much deeper, thought-provoking and insightful analysis of how societies can continue to develop and thrive within the planet's safe operating space.'--Will Steffen, The Australian National University. ''Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics' should top the reading list for anyone interested in exploring the nature of governance and the role of technology in this new human-dominated epoch known as the Anthropocene. Combining insights from complexity, innovation and institutional design, Galaz brings cutting edge research to enlighten the current challenges facing humankind. This is a must read.'--Michael Schoon, Arizona State University, US. We live on an increasingly human-dominated planet. Our impact on the Earth has become so huge that researchers now suggest that it merits its own geological epoch - the 'Anthropocene' - the age of humans. Combining theory development and case studies of 'planetary boundaries', emerging infectious diseases, financial markets and geoengineering, this groundbreaking book explores the 'Anthropocene Gap' otherwise known as society's current failure to address the most profound environmental challenges of our times. What are the political and institutional implications of this new epoch? And what are some novel ways to analyse the complicated interplay between institutions, Earth system complexity and technology? This book offers one of the first explorations of political and institutional dimensions of the Anthropocene concept by providing a novel combination of institutional analysis along with insights from Earth system sciences. It provides an exploration of the role of technology for global environmental governance and defines a new agenda for political science analysis in the Anthropocene. Offering the first summary of the planetary boundaries debate, this cutting edge book will be of great interest to researchers concerned in the interplay between politics, technology, and global environmental change, and those interested in the debate surrounding the Anthropocene and "planetary boundaries".

Global environmental change --- Environmental policy --- International cooperation

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Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the Southeas

Water --- Climatic changes. --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental aspects.

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La 4e de couv. indique : "Changements climatiques, volcanisme, catastrophes naturelles, lutte entre espèces... En quatre milliards d'années, la biodiversité terrestre a ainsi alterné crises destructrices et apparition explosive de nouvelles espèces. Mais l'extinction que nous connaissons n'a-t-elle pas l'espèce humaine pour principal élément déclencheur ? Comprendre l'histoire de la biodiversité, c'est comprendre la nécessité qu'il y a, de nos jours, à la protéger ; c'est aussi se prémunir contre les dangers de l'émotion et revenir à une approche scientifique fondamentale. Comme l'écrit dans sa préface Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, ± c'est dans ce climat, plus empreint d'inquiétude que de curiosité que les scientifiques doivent sortir de leur laboratoire... Patrick De Wever et Bruno David en font la preuve dans cet ouvrage qui nous invite à explorer la fantastique épopée du vivant... soit quelque 3 500 millions d'années !"

Biodiversity --- Global environmental change --- Biodiversité --- Changement global (Environnement) --- History --- History. --- Histoire

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Climatic changes --- Greenhouse gases --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Global environmental change. --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Government policy