Preface: The 'Anthropocene Gap'

Abstract

The auther defines three challenges which humanity will face in the future and should be tackled by social/political scientists. 1. Tipping points, 2. technological change, 3. fragmentation of political governance. He also states that we are right now in the Anthropocene Gap, which he defines as a time where we are "unable to grapple, analyse and respond to the major implications induced by our transgression into a human-dominated planet". The book is about new institutional and political challenges forced through the (non linear) interplay between global environmental change and emerging technologies.