Maja Göpel
Head, Berlin Office
Wuppertal Institute
Berlin
Germany
Acknowledgement: The saying “what is now proven was once imagined” is taken from
William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” The installation is by Andy Altmann
from Why Not Associates in the UK who have kindly provided a high resolution photo of it
on 6 April 2016: 22c Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7LB, UK, +44 (0)20 7253 2244;
Email: info@whynotassociates.com.
More on this book is at: http://afes-press-books.de/html/APESS_02.htm.
ISSN 2367-4024
ISSN 2367-4032 (electronic)
The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
ISBN 978-3-319-43765-1
ISBN 978-3-319-43766-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43766-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016946929
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. This book is published open access.
Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication,
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The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this
book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the
authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or
for any errors or omissions that may have been made.
Copyediting: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, AFES-PRESS e.V., Mosbach, Germany
Language editing: Susanna Forrest
Proofreading: Dr. Maja Göpel
Printed on acid-free paper
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The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Head, Berlin Office
Wuppertal Institute
Berlin
Germany
Acknowledgement: The saying “what is now proven was once imagined” is taken from
William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” The installation is by Andy Altmann
from Why Not Associates in the UK who have kindly provided a high resolution photo of it
on 6 April 2016: 22c Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7LB, UK, +44 (0)20 7253 2244;
Email: info@whynotassociates.com.
More on this book is at: http://afes-press-books.de/html/APESS_02.htm.
ISSN 2367-4024
ISSN 2367-4032 (electronic)
The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
ISBN 978-3-319-43765-1
ISBN 978-3-319-43766-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43766-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016946929
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. This book is published open access.
Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit
to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if
changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this book are included in the work’s Creative Commons
license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s
Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will
need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the
relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this
book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the
authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or
for any errors or omissions that may have been made.
Copyediting: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, AFES-PRESS e.V., Mosbach, Germany
Language editing: Susanna Forrest
Proofreading: Dr. Maja Göpel
Printed on acid-free paper
This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature
The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland