Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance

Walter F. Baber is Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Program and the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach. He is also Affiliated Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden. He has published many research articles and five previous books, including four co-authored books with Robert V. Bartlett. Most recently this has included: Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance: Democracy Beyond Democracy (Earth System Governance Elements series, Cambridge University Press, 2020). He has been a Lead Faculty of the international Earth System Governance research alliance since 2012, and has had Fulbright scholar appointments in Italy, Sweden, and Austria. Robert V. Bartlett is the Gund Professor of the Liberal Arts in the Political Science Department and the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont, where he is also a Fellow in the Gund Institute of Environment. He has published many research articles and eleven previous books, several of which have won prizes. He has been a Lead Faculty of the international Earth System Governance research alliance since 2012, and has had Fulbright scholar appointments in New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, and Austria.

1. Democratic Governance in the Anthropocene: Equivocal, Experimental, Equitable, Empowered, Embedded; 2. Toward a Consensual Earth System Governance; 3. Empowered Democratic Agency in the Anthropocene: Reconciling People to Nature and Each Other; 4. Embedded Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: The Structure of Institutionalized Ecological Rationality; 5. Experimental Adaptiveness in the Anthropocene: Reconciling Communities and Institutions to Environmental Change; 6. Equivocal Democratic Accountability in the Anthropocene: Where Effective Legislatures Don't Exist; 7. Equitable Access and Allocation in the Anthropocene: Reconciling Today and Tomorrow; 8. Earth System Democracy: Governing Humanity in the Anthropocene; Afterword: Governance by Uncommon Global Environmental Law?; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index.