Future of Nature

Documents of Global Change

Robin Libby, Sorlin Sverker, Warde Paul

This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability, it shows how twenty-first century predictors should think about what forecasting the future means from a fully global perspective. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.

About the Author

Libby Robin is professor of environmental history in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University and a Senior Research Fellow in the National Museum of Australia Research Centre.

Sverker Sorlin is a professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and co-founder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory.

Paul Warde is a reader in environmental and economic history at the University of East Anglia, an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and associate research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge.

Reviews

"The theme of 'global change' turns out to be an excellent way to structure a collection that includes primary sources spanning three centuries as well as commentaries that are uniformly insightful as well as usefully brief. The long time span makes this collection particularly valuable" – Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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