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{"title":"Securing a just and healthy future for all: Bringing a planetary health lens to the Earth System Governance research framework","authors":"Annabelle Workman ,&nbsp;Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori ,&nbsp;Godfred Boateng ,&nbsp;Scott Carlin ,&nbsp;Sharon Friel ,&nbsp;Elise Moo ,&nbsp;Rebecca Patrick ,&nbsp;Alexandre San Martim Portes ,&nbsp;Rosalind Warner ,&nbsp;Kathryn Bowen","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Governance efforts to address environmental degradation and consequent impacts on human health and wellbeing have had limited effectiveness to date. A unified planetary health approach that is holistic and integrates stewardship and alternative ways of knowing, being and doing may provide more successful governance pathways. Accordingly, we developed a research agenda intended to pursue transformational pathways that progress planetary health and embrace a <em>modus operandi</em> of stewardship across multiple governance levels.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used the 2018 Earth System Governance (ESG) research framework to guide a rapid review of the literature and establish a research agenda for planetary health within the context of earth system governance. We used a consensus process to support the identification and development of research questions. We developed a search strategy and used Scopus and PubMed to identify peer-reviewed literature published in English relating to planetary health and the four ESG contextual conditions: transformations, inequality, Anthropocene, and diversity.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>88 articles were included in the review. A majority were published between 2020 and 2023. Common topics included food systems and land use change, climate change, post-pandemic opportunities, as well as curriculum and research activities relating to planetary health. Systems and justice were key concepts. While interventions were commonly proposed in included articles, there was limited consideration of the role of governance.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>There remains scarce literature exploring fundamental questions on the relationship between planetary health and earth system governance. This presents an important opportunity to interrogate research questions pertaining to planetary health and earth system governance to support the urgent action. We propose initial questions that form the basis of a research agenda to extend our understanding of planetary health in the context of earth system governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143610513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Municipal capacities and institutional responses in the age of climate uncertainties","authors":"Tanvi V Deshpande","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Municipal governments in the global South with weak governance capacities and resources must urgently build their capacities to address climate impacts. Building on the concept ‘bringing the state back in’, the paper discusses the influence of ideational evolution within municipal governments on their capacity to pursue contextual climate policies. Ideational evolution within the government was traced by unpacking policymaking processes (learning, puzzling, and powering) and actors (governmental and non-governmental) involved. The framework explains how a global South municipal government improved its capacity to formulate and adopt an integrated, cross-sectoral and contextual climate policy without any domestic or international mandate. Triangulated information –(climate) policy documents, existing literature, interviews with policymakers-forms the basis of the study. In theorising from and for the global South, the study presents a framework, supported by empirics, on the influence of local and contextual ideation on municipal decision-making capacity to institutionally respond against climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100243"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Fronika de Wit","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100246"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Future directions for early career researchers in planetary health equity","authors":"Megan Arthur ,&nbsp;Charlotte Godziewski ,&nbsp;Katherine Sievert ,&nbsp;Sarah Boddington ,&nbsp;Amy Carrad ,&nbsp;Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori ,&nbsp;Babet de Groot ,&nbsp;Carlos Faerron Guzman ,&nbsp;Nicholas Frank ,&nbsp;Hridesh Gajurel ,&nbsp;James Hasler-Bail ,&nbsp;Edward Jegasothy ,&nbsp;Francis Nona ,&nbsp;Damilola Oluwemimo ,&nbsp;Sandra Samantela ,&nbsp;Alexandre San Martim Portes ,&nbsp;Annabelle Workman","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving social and health equity on a healthy planet requires attending to the structural drivers of intersecting crises of global environmental change, social inequities, and health inequities. A diverse group of early career researchers have formed a new network aligned in advancing work that promotes planetary health equity. This Perspective articulates proposed future research directions emerging from shared understandings of intersecting governance and policy challenges, including sections on transdisciplinary and co-productive knowledge paradigms; political economy and governance; policy integration; and opportunities to advance planetary health equity. We present this agenda with reference to a range of substantive environmental- and health-related domains, including food systems governance, trade policy, energy policy, urban planning, and education. As early career researchers in the emerging field of planetary health equity, these future directions for research are intended to offer novel avenues towards the goals of social and health equity in a stable Earth system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100245"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics matters! Political will as a critical condition for implementing the sustainable development goals","authors":"Marianne Beisheim ,&nbsp;Muriel Asseburg ,&nbsp;Eric J. Ballbach ,&nbsp;Karoline Eickhoff ,&nbsp;Sabine Fischer ,&nbsp;Nadine Godehardt ,&nbsp;Gerrit Kurtz ,&nbsp;Marcel Meyer ,&nbsp;Melanie Müller ,&nbsp;Stephan Roll ,&nbsp;Astrid Sahm ,&nbsp;Christian Wagner ,&nbsp;Claudia Zilla","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While commentaries often bemoan the lack of political will to “transform our world”, there is little analysis of country-level <em>politics</em> around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article aims to fill that gap through assessing the preferences and priorities of governments and local elites, as well as related conflicts around the SDGs. We want to investigate what political elites want to achieve through the SDGs. For this, we build on eleven exploratory country cases: Belarus, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Kenya, Palestine, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, and Sudan. Alongside specific findings for these countries, the article presents conclusions on the significance of country-level politics for SDG implementation and three clusters of hypotheses for future research. The most prominent finding is governments’ emphasis on (pre-existing) top-priority programmes: Governments seek to make the SDGs serve their political objectives, while leveraging them for greater legitimacy. Other relevant aspects include state fragility and the SDG governance architecture at the national level. The article concludes with a discussion of policy-relevant implications and recommendations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bridging the adaptation-finance gap: Pathways for the green climate fund in the Pacific","authors":"Katherine Owens ,&nbsp;George Carter ,&nbsp;Susan Park ,&nbsp;Gemma Viney","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face significant challenges accessing essential climate finance for adaptation as these states become increasingly vulnerable to climate change. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims for a ‘paradigm shift’ toward climate-resilient development, but its structural innovations have yet to benefit the most vulnerable Pacific communities or establish strong local connections. The GCF's stringent accreditation requirements and complex project proposal processes hinder local adaptation efforts, leading to reliance on traditional donor-recipient relationships and international accredited entities. To address this, we identify how the GCF can reform its modalities to provide direct, simplified, and small-scale grants that prioritise locally-led adaptation approaches. Using metrics for success identified in Community-Based and Locally-Led Adaptation approaches, the article proposes criteria for structuring and evaluating these modalities. It advocates for a transformative funding window within the GCF to increase local adaptation grants in PICs and facilitate fund percolation from global to local levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100247"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental justice in conservation philanthropy: Do intermediary organizations help?","authors":"Jeffrey E. Blackwatters ,&nbsp;Michele Betsill ,&nbsp;Eugene Eperiam ,&nbsp;Trina Leberer ,&nbsp;Geraldine Rengiil ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Terk ,&nbsp;Rebecca L. Gruby","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many private philanthropic foundations are engaging intermediary organizations as a strategy to better integrate justice into their grantmaking. This study examines how intermediary organizations work in practice and how they can or cannot contribute to justice in conservation funding. We employed Q methodology and a knowledge co-production approach to examine grantees’ experiences of justice in their grantmaking relationship with a funding intermediary, the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT). Using a collaborative process of knowledge creation and interpretation, we identified three distinct perspectives: 1. <em>Intermediaries bridge gaps in justice</em>; 2. <em>Intermediaries are helpful but constrained</em>; and 3. <em>Intermediaries cannot solve injustice in conservation</em> <em>funding</em>. Our findings indicate that while intermediaries can play a vital role in advancing justice in grant-making relationships, they are not a silver bullet for addressing injustices that are inherent to funding dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 100232"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governance through goals in action: How multi-stakeholder partnerships translate and connect the SDGs","authors":"Cornelia Fast,&nbsp;Oscar Widerberg","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect a ‘governance through goals’ approach to earth system governance, which requires collaborative action through multi-stakeholder partnerships and tailored responses that address SDG interactions. This article focuses on goal-setting as a possible response to the SDGs. By bridging governance through goals and SDG interaction literature, we develop a two-dimensional framework to explore specificity (how precise are the goals?) and connectivity (how are SDGs, institutions, and actors connected?) in goals. From examining a sample of 414 goals belonging to 64 multi-stakeholder partnerships with the potential to address SDG13 on Climate Action, the article contributes to the special issue by providing a novel account of how multi-stakeholder partnerships translate and address combinations of SDGs differently. The article engages with academic and policy debates on the steering effects of governance through goals, by discussing the potential of lofty goals to facilitate an integrated, accelerated approach to SDG implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 100238"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformative governance: Exploring theory of change and the role of the law","authors":"Korhonen-Kurki K.,&nbsp;D'Amato D.,&nbsp;Belinskij A.,&nbsp;Lazarevic D.,&nbsp;Leskinen P.,&nbsp;Nylén E.-J.,&nbsp;Pappila M.,&nbsp;Penttilä O.,&nbsp;Pitzén S.,&nbsp;Pykäläinen N.,&nbsp;Turunen T.,&nbsp;Vikström S.","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transformative change is becoming a key concept in the scientific conceptualization of sustainability. We assess five environmental governance approaches: adaptive, earth system, evolutionary, transformative and transition governance. We ask 1) What characterizes the different governance approaches, and how do they understand the dynamics of change? 2) How is the role of law conceptualized in the context of these governance approaches? The five studied approaches present different and complementary ways of describing change and how it unfolds or can be steered. According to our literature review, collaboration, leadership, learning, plurality, empowering, innovation and vision are seen as key mechanisms for change, while law is often oversimplified in these governance approaches, either as an enabler of or as a barrier to change towards sustainability. Future avenues of research could include how disruptive elements could be introduced as a way of catalyzing change and how to strengthen legal analysis to transformative change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 100230"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainability transitions as contextual reconfiguration: Governance innovation through local experimentation","authors":"Franziska Ehnert","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a context of complex and unprecedented challenges, innovations in governance are called for to embrace uncertainty and contingency. As a novel form of governance urban experimentation is intended to foster innovation and promote societal change. Building on the concepts of reconfiguration and multiplicity, scholars direct attention towards the multidimensional, hybrid and recursive nature of transformative change. The article provides an empirical exploration of local experimentation and contextual reconfiguration, illustrating how experimentation is mediated by and transforms local governance settings. It builds on “Dresden – City of the Future: Empowering Citizens, Transforming Cities!“, a transdisciplinary research project that aims to facilitate the co-creation of knowledge by researchers and practitioners, and advance the governance of local sustainability transitions. The exploratory study sheds light on processes of re-alignment between old and new forms of governance, illustrating the shift from hierarchy to co-creation, and from planning and accountability to experimentation and exploration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 100237"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}