The Anthropocene represents a major shift in Earth history as a result of the direct intervention by humankind into the earth system and nature. The term, coined by Stoermer, was popularized by Nobel Laureate, Paul J. Crutzen, when he declared in Cuernavaca (Mexico) in February 2000: “We are in the Anthropocene”. Crutzen argued that the result of the massive intervention by human economic activities into the earth system, scientifically documented in the rise of GHG (parts per million [ppm] of CO2) in the atmosphere, is that earth history has transitioned from the Holocene, the latest period of earth history following the end of the glacial period 12,000 years ago, to the Anthropocene.

When the Anthropocene started is disputed. It may have started at any time between the start of the industrial revolution around 1750 and the end of World War II in 1945, or in 1958 when the scientific measurement of the concentration (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere began and since when two-thirds of the increase has occurred. The societal and political impacts of this silent transition from the ‘Holocene’ to the ‘Anthropocene’ may be more severe and long-lasting than the impacts of a) the long-term major technical transitions (the Neolithic or agricultural and industrial revolutions), b) major changes in the political order (Vienna in 1815, Versailles in 1919, Yalta and San Francisco in 1945, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989), c) medium-term transitions of governments and major office holders, and d) short-term structure-creating events (e.g. the Russian revolution of 1917).

This peer-reviewed scientific book series will address this very long-term and severe transition process, where the cause of the change and its potential violent societal consequences are no longer the ‘other’ nation, ethnic, religious or political group, but ‘we’: “we are the threat” and only we as part of humankind can offer a remedy by containing the causes and addressing, facing and coping with the consequences.

This book series will review and analyse selective societal consequences of this fundamental change in earth history and the political, economic, societal and scientific discourses and policy-oriented societal debates on i) achieving the goal of ‘sustainable development’, ii) creating processes of ‘sustainability transition’, iii) the need for ‘a new contract for sustainability’, iv) the need for a paradigmatic change in world view (a scientific revolution) towards sustainability, or even v) the need for a ‘sustainability revolution’.

The key actors for bringing about such a change are: 1) Politik in its three distinct meanings of ‘politics’ (process), ‘policy’ (field, area) and ‘polity’ (legal and institutional framework); 2) Economics (as the field, actor and process), 3) Society (as the innovative groups and processes), and 4) Science as the source of technical innovation and societal and philosophical reflection.

All books in this series range from 55,000 to 250,000 words, and are published as printed books in softcover and as eBooks, and are also available as individual chapters. All members of academic institutions globally that subscribe to the relevant book package of SpringerLink have free access to these eBooks and may obtain MyCopy <http://www.springer.com/ librarians/e-content/mycopy?SGWID=0-165802-0-0-0> at a highly discounted price.

Paul J. Crutzen and the Anthropocene: A New Epoch in Earth’s History.

Editors: Benner, S., Lax, G., Crutzen, P.J., Pöschl, U., Lelieveld, J., Brauch, H.G.

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Maja Göpel: The Great Mindshift: How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations go Hand in Hand (Cham – Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Audley Genus (Ed.): Sustainable Consumption: Design, Innovation and Practice (Cham-Heidelberg - New York - Dordrecht - London: Springer- Springer International Publishing, 2016).

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Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Juliet Bennett, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald (Eds.): Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective (Cham–Heidelberg– New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2017).

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Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald, Juliet Bennett (Eds.): Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific (Cham– New York – Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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M. Laura Vazquez Maggio: Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age. The Case of Mexican Migrants in Australia (Cham-Heidelberg - New York - Dordrecht - London: Springer-Verlag, 2017).

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Tamer M. Qarmout: Delivering Aid Without Government: International Aid and Civil Society Engagement in the Recovery and Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip (Cham- New York – Heidelberg - Dordrecht - London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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David Curran: More than Fighting for Peace? The Role of Conflict Resolution in Training Programmes for Military Peacekeepers (Cham- New York - Heidelberg - Dordrecht - London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Heather Devere - Kelli Te Maihāroa - John Synott (Eds.): Peacebuilding and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Experiences and Strategies for the 21st Century (Cham– New York – Heidelberg – Dordrecht – London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Michael Durant Thomas: The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003–2013) (Cham- New York - Heidelberg - Dordrecht - London: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Zerin Savasan: Paris Climate Agreement: A Deal For Better Compliance? Lessons Learned from the Compliance Mechanisms of the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Lydia Wanja Gitau: Trauma-sensitivity and Peacebuilding. Considering the Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Eleonore Emkic: Reconciliation and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From Segregation to Sustainable Peace (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Mohan Jyoti Dutta: Imagining India in Discourse: Meaning, Power, Structure (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Sabit Erşahin - Selim Kapur - Erhan Akça - Ayten Namlı - Hakkı Emrah Erdoğan (Eds.): Carbon Management, Technologies, and Trends in Mediterranean Ecosystems (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017).

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Abubakar Ayesah Uy: Peacebuilding and Sustainable Human Development. The Pursuit of the Bangsamoro Right to Self-Determination (Cham-Heidelberg - New York - Dordrecht - London: Springer- Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser: Culture, International Transactions and the Anthropocene (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Tsugihiro Watanabe, Selim Kapur, Mehmet Aydın, Rıza Kanber, Erhan Akça (Eds.): Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-ecosystems (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Dumisani Ngwenya: Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. A Participatory Action Research Project (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Klaus von Beyme: From Post-Democracy to Neo-Democracy (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Imtiaz Ahmed: South Asian Rivers. A Framework for Cooperation (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Sidonia Angom: Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Ma. Luisa Marván, Esperanza López-Vázquez (Eds.): Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Úrsula Oswald Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald (Eds.): Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America. 40 Years of the Latin American Council of Peace Research (CLAIP) (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018).

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Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Andrew E. Collins, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald (Eds.): Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Nayak, Amar KJR (Ed.): Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems. Design and Systems Perspectives (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Carl Middleton, Vanessa Lamb (Eds.) (Eds.): Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Saleemul Huq, Jeffrey Chow, Adrian Fenton, Clare Stott, Julia Taub, Helena Wright (Eds.): Confronting Climate Change in Bangladesh. Policy Strategies for Adaptation and Resilience (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

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Luis-Alberto Padilla: Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene. Towards a New Holistic and Cosmopolitan Paradigm (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021).

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Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch (Eds.): Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021).

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Zerrin Savaşan, Vakur Sümer (Eds.): Environmental Law and Policies in Turkey (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020).

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Clarilza Prado de Sousa, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald (Eds.): – Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021).

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Judith Nora Hardt, Cameron Harrington, Nick Simpson, Franziskus von Lucke, Adrien Estève (Eds.): Climate Security in the Anthropocene - Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States

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Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala - Geoff Harris (Eds.): Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene: An Overview (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022)

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