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Anthropocene (In)securities - Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years After the Stockholm Conference (Hardcover)
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Anthropocene (In)securities - Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years After the Stockholm Conference (Hardcover)
Series: SIPRI Research Reports
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In June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known
as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it
reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental
problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we
find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and
possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply
no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is
a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel
environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile
era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting
the earth's biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume
brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy
experts to examine what security means in this new world of
humanity's own making. It asks how global institutions can respond
to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities,
and what political innovations are needed to chart a more
sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The
50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment
offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to
imagine constructive ways ahead.
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