Description
Winner of the 2019 Clay Morgan Award Committee for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory
About the Author
John S. Dryzek is Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Centenary Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. He is best known for his contributions in democratic theory and practice and environmental politics. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (2018) and The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2011), and the author of many books, including The Politics of the Earth (3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2013). Jonathan Pickering is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. His research focuses on global environmental governance, climate ethics and policy, and deliberative democracy. His research has been published in a range of journals including Climate Policy, Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics, International Environmental Agreements, and World Development.
Reviews
The book is persuasive and beautifull written, bringing forth a realistic and optimistic account of how humanscan reorganize themselves to better govern in the emerging epochPerhaps most importantly, the book offers hope that human reason and communication with one another and with the Earth system can rise to the challenges of the Anthropocene. * Jen Iris Allan, Cardiff Unviersity, EIA *
This is a salutatory warning for social scientists who study international institutions and the United Nations system, but one that needs to be taken seriously especially when it runs against the overwhelming impetus to be "policy relevant" to generate solutions to what are presented as solvable "problems". The Anthropocene requires more fundamental thinking, and as such this volume is a useful antidote to technocratic assumptions that there are simple solutions to issues that are better coped with reflexively as sets of interconnected complicated changing circumstances. * Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Academic Council on the United Nations System *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198809623
Author John S. Dryzek
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 12mm