James C. Scott’s book, Two Cheers for Anarchy, has three reviews in Antipode and he responds in kind to the issues the reviewers take up here. Very much worth taking a look through them all.

This Anthropocene Education project looks interesting. Apps due May 7.

Rolston III’s Carter-Chalker Lecture

Ray Monk’s new book on Oppenheimer is really great (I’m only part way through, but thoroughly enjoying it). Here’s a recent lecture he gave on it:

Victor Galaz has a new book now available to order. Here is the description of Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics: The Anthropocene Gap from the publisher’s website.

Description
‘Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear global environmental change and emerging technologies, like engineering the planet, tipping points, epidemic surprise or increased connectivity between financial markets, commodity markets, ecosystem services and underlying technologies. In a truly novel way, Galaz moves governance research to the very front of sustainability science and resilience thinking. ‘Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics’ is indeed a groundbreaking contribution, highly recommended!’
– Carl Folke, Stockholm University, Sweden

I’m starting in on the last chapter of Normal Water today. It’s been a relatively painless process so far, although quite a bit of editing work remains to be done. My goal has been to have a full manuscript draft in place by the end of May and this is now looking feasible. This final piece will cover, roughly, the UN Water for Life decade (2005-15). Obviously this isn’t over yet, but the decade is just a guide – I’m not actually tracking what goes on in UN programming. Instead, I’m using these “decades” as a heuristic to keep the story going. The 65-75 was hydrology, the 80’s was sanitation/drinking water and so on…