Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean - Paperback

by Robin Kundis Craig (Editor), Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy (Editor)

The world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with thinking about the planet's oceans from ecological, physical, social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures, changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience, melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding drama of climate change. Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean's precarious position in the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a positive change in public action to enhance the world's resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors. These essays engage that important work of positively re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene.

Author Biography

Robin Kundis Craig is the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her research areas include climate change adaptation and ocean and coastal law. She has authored, coauthored, or edited twelve books, including The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene and Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change.