This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in
the last 25 years. Achieving a new understanding of sustainability transition in the
Anthropocene requires a deeper analysis on culture. The development of new positions of
international institutions national governments scientific organizations private fora and
civil society movements on culture and nature shows how global transactions must take place in
a rapidly transforming world. In her book the author provides a multi-situated ethnography of
live debates on culture global environmental change development and diversity directly
recorded by the author as a participating and decision-making anthropologist from 1988 to 2016.
She examines the politicization and internationalization of culture by recognizing negotiating
and diversifying views on cultures and re-thinking culture in the Anthropocene. The merging of
science and policy in taking up cultural and natural challenges in the Anthropocene is
discussed.
