This series is the first collection to address the subject of education within the Anthropocene. The inspiration behind the series is a dialogue between Earth system science (ESS) and human and social sciences (which, when their object of study is the socio-political implications of our entering the Anthropocene are now officially called the environmental humanities). The series offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The raison d’être of this new collection is to draw together high quality studies dealing with the gravity of today’s environmental situation whilst also viewing the concept of the Anthropocene from a critical perspective by expanding on work engaged in in human and social sciences over recent years. The main objectives of this series are to:

• bring together studies from Earth system science and the environmental humanities in the same collection, from an educational angle• engage with the question of the future and how to prepare for it in a time of uncertainty