TY - JOUR
T1 - Democracy in the Anthropocene
AU - Hammond, Marit
AU - Dryzek, John
AU - Pickering, Jonathan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Anthropocene is an emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system. Our book argues that many of the signature problems of the Anthropocene are the product of dominant institutions that emerged in the previous epoch – the Holocene. These institutions remain stuck in ‘pathological path dependencies’ that decouple human institutions from the Earth system by systematically repressing information about ecological conditions and prioritising narrow economic concerns. As an antidote to pathological path dependencies, institutions need to cultivate ecological reflexivity, which refers to the capacity of an entity to recognise and anticipate its impacts on social-ecological systems and listen to feedback from those systems; critically reflect on core values in light of this feedback; and respond by transforming its practices.
AB - The Anthropocene is an emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system. Our book argues that many of the signature problems of the Anthropocene are the product of dominant institutions that emerged in the previous epoch – the Holocene. These institutions remain stuck in ‘pathological path dependencies’ that decouple human institutions from the Earth system by systematically repressing information about ecological conditions and prioritising narrow economic concerns. As an antidote to pathological path dependencies, institutions need to cultivate ecological reflexivity, which refers to the capacity of an entity to recognise and anticipate its impacts on social-ecological systems and listen to feedback from those systems; critically reflect on core values in light of this feedback; and respond by transforming its practices.
KW - Deliberative democracy
KW - Anthropocene
KW - Sustainability
KW - Ecological reflexivity
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL140100154
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092226120&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/s41296-019-00364-6
DO - 10.1057/s41296-019-00364-6
M3 - Article
SN - 1470-8914
VL - 19
SP - 127
EP - 141
JO - Contemporary Political Theory
JF - Contemporary Political Theory
IS - 1
ER -