The Anthropocene and its Future: The Challenges of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change

Abstract

Part I Complexity of Global Change - Acceleration and Transformation -- 1 Introduction - The Century of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change -- 2 Global Change - The Great Acceleration -- 3 Global Change - The Great Transformation -- 4 Sustainable Development - The Discourse about the Common Future -- 5 Theoretical Models of the Social-ecological Transformation -- Part II Problems in the Great Transformation -- 6 Digitalisation and Social-Ecological Transformation -- 7 Food Systems and Social-Ecological Transformation -- 8 Modes of Living and Social-Ecological Transformation -- Part III The Future – Nature and Society -- 9 Transformation of Nature - Changing Relations between Nature and Society -- 10 Transformation of Society - Governance of Global Crises.