Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a political science perspective on the anthropocene / Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg and Sabine Weiland -- A natural history for the 21st century : rethinking the anthropocene narrative with Arendt and Adorno / Maike Weisspflug -- Disentangling descriptions and responses to the anthropocene : norms and implications of scientific representations of the earth system / Johannes Lundershausen -- The anthropocene and governance : critical reflections on conceptual relations / Basil Bornemann -- International theory in the anthropocene : moving beyond species, state, and governance / Franziska Müller -- Security studies and the discourse on the anthropocene : shortcomings, challenges, and opportunities / Judith Nora Hardt -- Global climate governance as boundary object : making the meaning of the anthropocene / Lukas Hermwille -- From "talking the talk" to "walking the walk"? : multi-level global governance of the anthropocene in Indonesia / Chris Höhne -- Agricultural governance in the anthropocene : a research agenda / Sandra Schwindenhammer -- Sustainability impact assessment of land use changes in the anthropocene / Till Hermanns and Qirui Li -- The nuclear legacy in the anthropocene : interrelations between nature, technology, and society / Dörte Themann and Achim Brunnengräber -- Worlds apart? : the global South and the anthropocene / Jens Marquardt -- The anthropocene concept as a wake-up call for reforming democracy / Jörg Tremmel -- Conclusions : towards a "deep debate" on the anthropocene / Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg and Sabine Weiland