{"title":"Addressing complexity and diversity in the sustainable transitions of spiny lobster fisheries in Quintana Roo, Mexico","authors":"Víctor M. Velázquez Durán , Rocío Rosales Ortega","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study articulates five dimensions of territorial governance (social capital, leadership, transparency, accountability, socioenvironmental innovations, and commercialization routes) to construct a tripartite typology that helps explain the diverse sustainable transitions of small-scale fisheries in specific territorial contexts. The types are: 1) participative-inclusive governance expressed in solid institutions dedicated to environmental conservation; 2) exclusive-conflictive governance which generates institutions that are fragile for environmental conservation; and 3) transitional governance toward inclusion and responsible fishing, seen in communities that are implementing social and organizational changes to reduce overexploitation of fishing resources. Intensive fieldwork was conducted in localities devoted to spiny lobster fishing along the coast of Quintana Roo. We also held 106 interviews with key actors in governance. Results show that articulating intra- and extra-territorial networks is vitally important in developing the kinds of socioenvironmental innovations that can help local fishermen respond to the multiple environmental, economic, and political contingencies that affect their territories. We conclude that it is necessary to articulate institutional changes on various territorial scales to propel sustainable transitions that are realistic and feasible for small-scale fishers in marginalized communities in countries of the Global South.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100205"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000053/pdfft?md5=9f09bdf54f73386cd1c47a93509feed0&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811624000053-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330999","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":"Exploring the planetary health equity governance supercluster complex","authors":"Nicholas Frank, Sharon Friel, Megan Arthur","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global planetary health equity (PHE) governance architecture can shape government responses to the interrelated challenges of the climate crisis, economic inequality, and poor health. The structure of this architecture has yet to be examined. Using network analysis, we provide the first mapping of the PHE topology and show that the PHE governance architecture is highly centralized and dominated by economic governance organizations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 100207"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000077/pdfft?md5=5fddb8e095a28c5710b0efd84de73c4a&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811624000077-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140632704","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":"Two problems or one? Climate engineering and conceptual disaggregation","authors":"Florian Rabitz","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The term “climate engineering” is an ambiguous label for two categories of technologies for mediating global warming, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Whether CDR and SRM should be grouped together under a common umbrella term, or whether they should be treated as two disparate problems in need of disparate solutions, has long been a matter of debate. This paper first provides an empirical analysis of disaggregation. Topic modelling the scientific literature on climate engineering, I highlight a trend towards disaggregation driven by growth in the specialized literature on CDR. Second, I explore inconsistencies in the theoretical rationale for disaggregation and challenges in its practical implications. Third, I elaborate on the theoretical and practical utility of maintaining an integrated concept of climate engineering for highlighting the challenges of governing large-scale, hypothetical technological interventions into the climate system subject to deep uncertainties and mitigation deterrence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000028/pdfft?md5=a3b81210e2062e717a0d6eb6b4811f1e&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811624000028-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139548828","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":"Mapping multiscalar power for fair, effective climate policy discourse","authors":"Simone J. Domingue , Stacia S. Ryder","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mainstream climate policy discourse obscures power disparities between those who contribute the most to climate change and those who are hit the hardest, particularly in discussions regarding the appropriate targets for intervention, including behavioral change. We reflect and critique this obfuscation of power in policy debates, and as a corrective, we identify actors with high levels of climate responsibility and high capacity for mitigation and adaptation, and that intersect different scales of social organization. We visually map these overlaps to spur productive dialogue and generate new policy ideas to target the worst violators first and encourage action for others where it is rooted in what capacities they have. We include examples of how power disparities reflect and produce complex climate injustices, underscoring the importance of conceptualizing power through a multiscalar lens for fair and effective climate policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100200"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258981162300037X/pdfft?md5=b12346fc0d8617618baaafdbd6a13b6c&pid=1-s2.0-S258981162300037X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139090016","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}
Cebuan Bliss, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Duncan Liefferink
{"title":"(Un)fair chase? Governing “conservation killing” in Africa and Europe","authors":"Cebuan Bliss, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Duncan Liefferink","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The killing of animals purportedly for conservation generates trade-offs between species conservation and animal protection. Using an Integrative Governance framework, we explain the relationships between these interlinked biodiversity and animal governance systems regarding such “conservation killing” within and between the African and European Unions. Misaligned discourses and institutions, and conflicting power dynamics between actors limit relationships. However, integration has grown moderately, particularly in the EU, due to actors’ shared interest in (“native”) wildlife health and welfare, and through the paradigm of One Health, which stresses the interconnection of animal, environmental and human health. Nevertheless, sustainable conservation practices must also meet societal ethical expectations. Conservation killing falls short in this regard, despite recent growing attention to animal welfare. We suggest greater integration between the governance systems is unlikely to ameliorate this as both are grounded in capitalist anthropocentric structures, which reduce animals to commodities. Transformative governance, instead, entails including animals as actors whose interests warrant protection in order to promote just conservation practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000016/pdfft?md5=272487ef9e8976fba01a46c09c96668e&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811624000016-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139737634","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}
Daniel Petrovics , Loïc Cobut , Dave Huitema , Mendel Giezen , Amandine Orsini
{"title":"Diverse scaling strategies of energy communities: A comparative case study analysis of varied governance contexts","authors":"Daniel Petrovics , Loïc Cobut , Dave Huitema , Mendel Giezen , Amandine Orsini","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100203","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Energy communities equip citizens with democratic control over their energy assets, help them capture value locally and create a green, just and decentralized energy system. Such energy communities have grown, replicated their experiences and have been institutionalized in diverse settings. In short, there are plenty of empirical examples of energy communities that have scaled. In this article we explore how varied governance contexts contribute to the scaling of community-based energy governance and in effect the actor constellations of diverse institutional settings. Through a comparative case study analysis based on semi-structured interviews and document analysis, we examined 3 distinct cases: Courant d’Air in Belgium, Coopernico in Portugal and Zuiderlicht in The Netherlands. Each case illustrates a different type of scaling journey and a varied governance context - suggesting that multiple pathways towards scaling exist. Our results show that the mixing of cooperative, state and market logics can potentially result in trade-offs between the democratic potential of energy communities and the efficiencies other logics offer to the energy transition. We argue that an institutional logics framework allows for a clearer understanding of the impact governance settings have on the scalability of energy communities as well as the composition of these countries' energy systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258981162400003X/pdfft?md5=3455af680f8749f67c002d052ee4039f&pid=1-s2.0-S258981162400003X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139713692","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}
Sean Low , Miranda Boettcher , Shinichiro Asayama , Chad Baum , Amanda Borth , Calum Brown , Forrest Clingerman , Peter Dauvergne , Kari De Pryck , Aarti Gupta , Matthias Honegger , Dominic Lenzi , Renate Reitsma , Felix Schenuit , Celina Scott-Buechler , Jose Maria Valenzuela
{"title":"An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal","authors":"Sean Low , Miranda Boettcher , Shinichiro Asayama , Chad Baum , Amanda Borth , Calum Brown , Forrest Clingerman , Peter Dauvergne , Kari De Pryck , Aarti Gupta , Matthias Honegger , Dominic Lenzi , Renate Reitsma , Felix Schenuit , Celina Scott-Buechler , Jose Maria Valenzuela","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2024.100204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that mapped a range of actors, activities, and issues relevant to carbon removal, and refined them into research questions spanning four intersecting areas: modeling and systems assessment, societal appraisal, policy, and innovation and industry. We filter these questions through the five lenses of the ESG framework and highlight several key ‘cross-cutting’ issues that could form the basis of an integrated ESG research agenda on CDR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100204"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811624000041/pdfft?md5=055f8eb1d6db9ad8881d5c61852977fe&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811624000041-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139718600","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}
Annisa Triyanti , Haomiao Du , Dries L.T. Hegger , Peter P.J. Driessen , Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick , Murray Scown , Herman Kasper Gilissen
{"title":"Clarifying and strengthening the role of law and governance in climate scenario frameworks","authors":"Annisa Triyanti , Haomiao Du , Dries L.T. Hegger , Peter P.J. Driessen , Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick , Murray Scown , Herman Kasper Gilissen","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) and shared policy assumptions (SPAs) are lauded as a common basis for climate scenario research across disciplines, yet they lack essential legal and governance elements that are indispensable when assessing future development pathways. This article sets out to address this shortcoming by explaining the interrelated but distinct features of law and governance and their downplayed roles in climate scenario research. We explore the extent to which legal and govsternance features are included in the current SSP and SPA development process and then suggest that the substance of legal and governance features in climate scenario frameworks could be enriched in four ways, by: 1) identifying the nuances of legal and policy objectives; 2) assessing the effectiveness of institutions and instruments; 3) integrating the assessment of the flexibility and adaptability of legal and governance systems into the projection of long-term pathways; and 4) responding to the urgent need to integrate climate and energy justice while still cautiously considering normative principles to be opportunities and challenges. We further argue that future climate scenario frameworks should consider law and governance at multiple scales and in distinct contexts to improve the usability, applicability, and reliability of the integrated pathways. Finally, in order to project future risks, this article suggests improvement regarding the processes, including inter- and transdisciplinary inclusion that can potentially be considered when furthering climate scenario frameworks that enhance understanding of the complex, uncertain future and the long-term consequences of certain decisions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100199"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811623000368/pdfft?md5=9220dcec8aef271704ded8386064f8da&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811623000368-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138474884","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":"Global trade rules threaten food security amid climate shocks","authors":"Kristen Hopewell, Matias Ezequiel Margulis","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2023.100198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The overwhelming scientific consensus points towards the growing frequency and intensity of climate-induced shocks to the global food system. Historically, public food stockholding – the acquisition, storage and distribution of food stocks – has been an important policy tool used by governments to guard against production shocks by stabilizing supply and prices. However, current global trade rules severely restrict the ability of governments to use public food reserves. World Trade Organization (WTO) rules must be reformed to allow greater scope for governments to build and operate food reserves, in order to respond to emerging food security challenges caused by climate change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100198"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811623000356/pdfft?md5=0bb39febd2ce2352c147377589c4bbfc&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811623000356-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138396468","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}