Synthesising and Identifying Emerging Issues in Adaptiveness Research within the Earth System Governance Framework (1998–2018)

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Bernd Siebenhüner ◽  
Riyanti Djalante
Keyword(s):  
Earth System ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Emerging Issues

scholarly journals Politics of Strata

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Clark
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
The Third ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth

Modern western political thought revolves around globality, focusing on the partitioning and the connecting up of the earth’s surface. But climate change and the Anthropocene thesis raise pressing questions about human interchange with the geological and temporal depths of the earth. Drawing on contemporary earth science and the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this article explores how geological strata are emerging as provocations for political issue formation. The first section reviews the emergence – and eventual turn away from – concern with ‘revolutions of the earth’ during the 18th- and 19th-century discovery of ‘geohistory’. The second section looks at the subterranean world both as an object of ‘downward’ looking territorial imperatives and as the ultimate power source of all socio-political life. The third section weighs up the prospects of ‘earth system governance’. The paper concludes with some general thoughts about the possibilities of ‘negotiating strata’ in more generative and judicious ways.

scholarly journals Deep-time organizations: Learning institutional longevity from history

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Hanusch ◽  
Frank Biermann
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Initial Design ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Temporal Interdependencies

The Anthropocene as a new planetary epoch has brought to the foreground the deep-time interconnections of human agency with the earth system. Yet despite this recognition of strong temporal interdependencies, we still lack understanding of how societal and political organizations can manage interconnections that span several centuries and dozens of generations. This study pioneers the analysis of what we call “deep-time organizations.” We provide detailed comparative historical analyses of some of the oldest existing organizations worldwide from a variety of sectors, from the world’s oldest bank (Sveriges Riksbank) to the world’s oldest university (University of Al Quaraouiyine) and the world’s oldest dynasty (Imperial House of Japan). Based on our analysis, we formulate 12 initial design principles that could lay, if supported by further empirical research along similar lines, the basis for the construction and design of “deep-time organizations” for long-term challenges of earth system governance and planetary stewardship.

Navigating the anthropocene: the Earth System Governance Project strategy paper

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biermann ◽  
Michele M Betsill ◽  
Susana Camargo Vieira ◽  
Joyeeta Gupta ◽  
Norichika Kanie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Project Strategy

Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biermann ◽  
Kenneth Abbott ◽  
Steinar Andresen ◽  
Karin Bäckstrand ◽  
Steven Bernstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth System ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth

Start the Earth System Governance that Integrates “Climate-Altering Technologies”

2020 ◽  
pp. 2075006
Author(s):  
János PÁSZTOR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Addressing climate emergencies requires a radical social change, and an “earth system” governance approach that combines different factors (including technologies that affect climate). As the Paris Agreement has been reached for four years and came into force for three years, there is a growing recognition that the global average temperature rise cannot be limited to 1.5–2∘C only by emissions reduction or existing carbon removal measures. The reason is that the world has not taken enough actions to deal with the crisis. As reported by IPCC (2018), hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already experiencing the harsh consequences of climate change, from storms to floods, to heatwaves and droughts [IPCC. 2018. “International Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees.” https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15 (accessed November 5, 2019)]. According to Spratt and Dunlop (2019), as the climate change intensifies, all sectors of society have realized the need to avoid the risks brought by climate change and to deal with the severe disasters that already exist [Spratt, David, and Ian Dunlop. 2019. “Existential Climate-related Security Risk: A Scenario Approach.” https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0b2c0c79dc4344b279bcf2365336ff23b.pdf (accessed November 5, 2019)]. This raises some profound questions. For instances, should people consider a new responsive measure that is compatible with the natural system which sustains life on the earth, and within the limits of the earth’s tolerance? What forms of decision-making might we need, to help us make the smart collective choices needed for a world where no risk-free options remain? Are familiar governance and decision-making processes still suitable for the goals? Who will make the decisions to promote this transformation? If people really want to change the way they make decisions, they may need to create new forms of governance and decide how this transformation begins and which authority is subject to.

scholarly journals Capitalism and Earth System Governance: An Ecological Marxist Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Michael J. Albert
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
Primary Driver ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Political Economic

Growing recognition of the Anthropocene era has led to a chorus of calls for Earth System Governance (ESG). Advocates argue that humanity’s newfound sociotechnical powers require institutional transformations at all scales of governance to wield these powers with wisdom and foresight. Critics, on the other hand, fear that these initiatives embody a technocratic impulse that aims to subject the planet to expert management without addressing the political-economic roots of the earth system crisis. This article proposes a more affirmative engagement with existing approaches to ESG while also building on these critiques. While advocates of ESG typically ignore the capitalistic roots of the earth system crisis and propose tepid reforms that risk authoritarian expressions, their critics also have yet to systematically consider the potential for more democratic and postcapitalist forms of ESG. In response, I propose an ecological Marxist approach based on a structural analysis of capitalism as the primary driver of the earth system crisis and an “ecosocialist” vision of ESG that subordinates the market to democratic planning at multiple scales. I argue that an ecological Marxist perspective is needed to foreground the structural political-economic constraints on earth system stability, though existing approaches to ESG can in turn inform ecosocialist strategies for global institutional design and democratization.

Unacceptable Agency

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-344
Author(s):  
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Authority Relations ◽  
Looking Back

The Earth System Governance Project is the largest scholarly body in the world devoted to articulating governance of the Earth’s systems. It recently published a “Harvesting Initiative” looking back on the first iteration of its Scientific Plan. This paper contributes to the decolonial and constructive critique of the theory of agency in that Initiative and argues that it displays “fragmentary coloniality” especially around problematic authority relations in governance. By turning to work on “worlding,” the paper argues for radicalizing questions of authority, leading us to focus not on agency but on moral relationships—work for a sequel to this paper.

scholarly journals The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization: a critical assessment after ten years

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biermann ◽  
Michele M Betsill ◽  
Sarah Burch ◽  
John Dryzek ◽  
Christopher Gordon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Network Organization ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth

scholarly journals Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth system law in the ruptured Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962110267
Author(s):  
Rakhyun E Kim
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Earth System ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
Earth System Governance ◽  
The Earth

If the Anthropocene is a rupture in planetary history, what does it mean for international environmental law? When the Earth System crosses irreversible tipping points and begins a forceful, nonlinear transformation into a hostile state which I call the ruptured Anthropocene, the concept of protecting the global environment from humans would lose its meaning. Not only the dichotomy between humans and nature becomes irrelevant, but the environment itself will no longer exist as an object for protection. I argue that, for international environmental law to stay relevant in the ruptured Anthropocene, it needs to shift away from its traditional focus on restoring the planetary past, and instead play an active role in the making of planetary futures. Its new purpose will need to be active planetary stewardship, whereby humans add self-awareness for deliberate self-regulation of the Earth System. Such an attempt at ‘taming’ the so-called Gaia 2.0 will, however, create winners and losers, and the new form of law will have to address fundamental questions of justice on a planetary scale. Building on the concept of earth system law emerging in the earth system governance literature, I draw the contours of international environmental law 2.0 for the ruptured Anthropocene and discuss the challenges of instituting active planetary stewardship.

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