Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability & The Anthropocene

Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability & the Anthropocene offers an original interdisciplinary exploration of the changing relationship between human civilization, environmental systems, and the future of the planet. The book approaches climate change not as an isolated atmospheric phenomenon, but as part of a much broader transformation in which economic activity, technological development, urbanization, resource consumption, ecological change, social behaviour, and human aspirations increasingly interact with the natural environment. At the centre of the book is a simple but profound question: how can human societies continue to develop without undermining the ecological conditions that make development possible? Addressing this question requires moving beyond conventional discussions of temperature rise, carbon emissions, or environmental degradation and examining the deeper structures that shape the interaction between people and the planet.