The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch

This book captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the 'Age of Humans'. It presents some of the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history.

Author: Clive Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/22/2015
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781138821231

About the Author

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia.

Christophe Bonneuil is a Senior researcher in History at the Centre A. Koyré (CNRS, EHESS and MNHN) Paris, France.

François Gemenne is a Research fellow at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (CEARC), France and at the University of Liège (CEDEM), Belgium.