Introducing Greentopia: Content, Meaning and Framing of Utopian Explorations at the Human-Nature Interface

This chapter serves as an introduction to the volume Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene. It first explains the context and theoretical frame of greentopia as a method of investigating the interface between human beings and nature in the Anthropocene, and offers a working definition of greentopia. The second section presents a framing of the central themes in the volume. Section three provides a prospect of the content of the individual contributions.