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Global institutions are afflicted by severe democratic deficits,
while many of the major problems facing the world remain
intractable. Against this backdrop, we develop a deliberative
approach that puts effective, inclusive, and transformative
communication at the heart of global governance. Multilateral
negotiations, international organizations and regimes, governance
networks, and scientific assessments can be rendered more
deliberative and democratic. More thoroughgoing transformations
could involve citizens' assemblies, nested forums, transnational
mini-publics, crowdsourcing, and a global dissent channel. The
deliberative role of global civil society is vital. We show how
different institutional and civil society elements can be linked to
good effect in a global deliberative system. The capacity of
deliberative institutions to revise their own structures and
processes means that deliberative global governance is not just a
framework but also a reconstructive learning process. A
deliberative approach can advance democratic legitimacy and yield
progress on global problems such as climate change, violent
conflict and poverty.
The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible
treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need
to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene,
the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system
and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck
with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the
Holocene - the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in
the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such
as states and capitalist markets arose. These institutions persist
despite their potentially catastrophic failure to respond to the
challenges of the Anthropocene, foremost among them a rapidly
changing climate and accelerating biodiversity loss. The
pathological trajectories of these institutions need to be
disrupted by advancing ecological reflexivity: the capacity of
structures, systems, and sets of ideas to question their own core
commitments, and if necessary change themselves, while listening
and responding effectively to signals from the Earth system. This
book envisages a world in which humans are no longer estranged from
the Earth system but engage with it in a more productive
relationship. We can still pursue democracy, social justice, and
sustainability - but not as before. In future, all politics should
be first and foremost a politics of the Anthropocene. The arguments
are developed in the context of issues such as climate change,
biodiversity, and global efforts to address sustainability.
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