Earth System Governance (Jan 2019)
New directions in earth system governance research
- Sarah Burch,
- Aarti Gupta,
- Cristina Y.A. Inoue,
- Agni Kalfagianni,
- Åsa Persson,
- Andrea K. Gerlak,
- Atsushi Ishii,
- James Patterson,
- Jonathan Pickering,
- Michelle Scobie,
- Jeroen Van der Heijden,
- Joost Vervoort,
- Carolina Adler,
- Michael Bloomfield,
- Riyanti Djalante,
- John Dryzek,
- Victor Galaz,
- Christopher Gordon,
- Renée Harmon,
- Sikina Jinnah,
- Rakhyun E. Kim,
- Lennart Olsson,
- Judith Van Leeuwen,
- Vasna Ramasar,
- Paul Wapner,
- Ruben Zondervan
Affiliations
- Sarah Burch
- Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, EV1-231 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada; Corresponding author.
- Aarti Gupta
- Department of Social Sciences, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1 6706 KN, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Cristina Y.A. Inoue
- Institute of International Relations Universidade de Brasilia Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Prédio do Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Asa Norte CEP 70.910-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil
- Agni Kalfagianni
- Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8A 3585CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Åsa Persson
- Stockholm Environment Institute, Linnégatan 87D, Box 24218, SE-104 51, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden
- Andrea K. Gerlak
- University of Arizona, USA, School of Geography & Development & Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, USA; School of Geography and Development, 1064 E. Lowell Street, South 4th floor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0137, USA
- Atsushi Ishii
- Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, 41 Kawauchi, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8576, Japan
- James Patterson
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Vening, Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan, 8A 3585CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Jonathan Pickering
- Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Michelle Scobie
- Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- Jeroen Van der Heijden
- School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, 23 Lambton, Quay Wellington, 6011, New Zealand
- Joost Vervoort
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan, 8A 3585CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Carolina Adler
- Mountain Research Initiative, c/o Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, Bern 3012, Switzerland
- Michael Bloomfield
- Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
- Riyanti Djalante
- United Nations University – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8925, Japan
- John Dryzek
- Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Victor Galaz
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, SE-10691, Sweden; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
- Christopher Gordon
- Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
- Renée Harmon
- Minnesota State University-Moorhead, USA, Department of Leadership and Learning, 1104 7th Ave S, Moorhead, MN, 56563, USA
- Sikina Jinnah
- Departments of Politics and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Mailstop: Environmental Studies, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
- Rakhyun E. Kim
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584, CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Lennart Olsson
- Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Box 170, S-22100, Lund, Sweden
- Judith Van Leeuwen
- Department of Social Sciences, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1 6706 KN, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Vasna Ramasar
- Department of Human Geography, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Sölvegatan 10, 22100, Lund, Sweden
- Paul Wapner
- American University, USA, School of International Service, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC, 20016, USA
- Ruben Zondervan
- International Project Office, Earth System Governance Project, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508TC, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 1
p. 100006
Abstract
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant and relevant research community. This framework is composed of contextual conditions (transformations, inequality, Anthropocene and diversity), which capture what is being observed empirically, and five sets of research lenses (architecture and agency, democracy and power, justice and allocation, anticipation and imagination, and adaptiveness and reflexivity). Ultimately the goal is to guide and inspire the systematic study of how societies prepare for accelerated climate change and wider earth system change, as well as policy responses.
