{"title":"Fostering place-shaped responsibilities for biodiversity: An analytical framework with insights from the UK Overseas Territories","authors":"Jasper Montana","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Accelerated human impacts on the earth system bring urgency to the question of how responsibility can be appropriately and justly distributed across scales and actors. Drawing together theory from international relations and human geography with empirical analysis on responsibilities for biodiversity, this paper has two aims: to develop a framework for examining responsibilities for biodiversity that is applied to the context of the UK Overseas Territories; and to draw out broader lessons for thinking about environmental responsibilities more generally. The analysis draws particular attention to the importance of place-shaped responsibilities for biodiversity, which emerge as localised narratives of responsibility that take account of the enabling and resisting conditions that matter in particular places. Applied in the context of biodiversity governance, this suggests a need to join up policy issues, embed equity, explore multiple meanings, bridge pro-active and retrospective responsibilities, and enhance the role of the social sciences in enabling responsibilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000258/pdfft?md5=0c24a9be685f62f44eb43607c2087239&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000258-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47569107","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}
Abigail M. York , Eduard Zdor , Shauna BurnSilver , Tatiana Degai , Maria Monakhova , Svetlana Isakova , Andrey N. Petrov , Morgan Kempf
{"title":"Institutional navigation of oceans governance: Lessons from Russia and the United States Indigenous multi-level whaling governance in the Arctic","authors":"Abigail M. York , Eduard Zdor , Shauna BurnSilver , Tatiana Degai , Maria Monakhova , Svetlana Isakova , Andrey N. Petrov , Morgan Kempf","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Oceans governance occurs through overlapping, multi-level institutions that often fail to recognize Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) provides pathways for recognizing Indigenous rights. However, observed power asymmetries and cross-level local to international conflicts threatened subsistence rights and generated research and advocacy fatigue for Chukchi, Iñupiat, Saint Lawrence Island Yupik, and Siberian Yupik communities in the USA and Russia. We conduct an institutional analysis of Indigenous bowhead whaling governance based upon lived experiences of Indigenous authors, primary documents from co-management organizations, national agencies, the IWC, and extant literature. We explore how Indigenous co-management organizations increased sovereignty and self-determination for communities whose culture, identities, livelihoods, and origins are intimately connected to marine mammal hunting. Our study also provides lessons for the United Nations Decade for Ocean Science on the challenges of institutional navigation and the role of embodied resurgent practice amongst Indigenous communities within Earth system governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100154"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000234/pdfft?md5=27d93fb42d04e3098029641cfe468440&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000234-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44202409","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}
Gabi Sonderegger , Andreas Heinimann , Vasco Diogo , Christoph Oberlack
{"title":"Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements","authors":"Gabi Sonderegger , Andreas Heinimann , Vasco Diogo , Christoph Oberlack","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are prominent governance instruments that define and verify sustainable agricultural land use at farm and supply chain levels. However, agricultural production can prompt spillover dynamics with implications for sustainability that go beyond these scales, e.g., through runoff of chemical inputs or long-distance migrant worker flows. Scientific evidence on the governance of spillovers through VSS is, however, limited. This study investigates the extent to which VSS regulate a set of 21 environmental and socio-economic spillovers of agricultural land use. To this end, we assessed the spillover coverage in 100 sustainability standards. We find that VSS have a clear tendency to cover environmental spillovers more extensively than socio-economic spillovers. Further, we show how spillover coverage differs across varying types of standard-setting organizations and VSS verification mechanisms. Finally, we discuss the role and limitations that VSS can have in addressing the revealed gaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000271/pdfft?md5=87610ddd4bd5ea05fb0b11706f031c03&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000271-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44947519","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":"Recentering the role of marine restoration science to bolster community stewardship","authors":"Dominic McAfee , Georgina Drew , Sean D. Connell","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The restoration of marine habitats is becoming a primary strategy for managing healthy coastal ecosystems, but initiatives often fail due to conflicts with social or industry activities. Confronting the challenge of expanding marine restoration for the ‘Ocean Decade’, this paper explores the ways that researchers could improve the way Governments and practitioners engage stakeholders with restorations of high socio-ecological and economic value. We seek to recenter the role of scientific knowledge-making in marine restoration by incorporating culturally informed socio-economic well-being into restoration practice; a process for encouraging greater marine stewardship by an engaged, more ocean literate public set to co-benefit from successful restoration practices. Using Australia's shellfish reef restoration program as a case study, we underscore the value of understanding diverse perspectives on marine restoration to foster a more inclusive restoration practice, one that nurtures a meaningful knowledge base to shift how restoration is viewed, engaged with, and funded.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100149"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000180/pdfft?md5=76aae984f211637b77cafeff84bbc28f&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000180-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49150480","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}
Pierre Chuard , Jennifer Garard , Karsten Schulz , Nilushi Kumarasinghe , David Rolnick , Damon Matthews
{"title":"A portrait of the different configurations between digitally-enabled innovations and climate governance","authors":"Pierre Chuard , Jennifer Garard , Karsten Schulz , Nilushi Kumarasinghe , David Rolnick , Damon Matthews","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rapid societal transformations are required to keep global average temperature rise well below 2 °C by 2050. An increasingly diverse set of initiatives are leveraging digital technologies to transform society. Given the rapid pace at which these initiatives emerge and the accelerated rate of technological innovation, few connections are made as to their common approaches and motivations. To address this, we developed a database of such initiatives from around the world. We propose a categorization of four types of strategies: data mobilization, optimization of existing strategies, incentivizing and automating behavioural change, and enhancing participation and empowerment of individuals. We analyse connections between types of strategies through the lens of the Earth System Governance framework's original 5 A's – Architecture, Agency, Adaptiveness, Accountability, and Allocation & Access. This work provides a first step towards understanding how digitally-enabled initiatives are contributing to re-imagining climate governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000167/pdfft?md5=7734b95b0109de7dcc1caf4e4a571580&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000167-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47156519","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":"Smart Oceans: Artificial intelligence and marine protected area governance","authors":"Karen Bakker","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100141"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000106/pdfft?md5=af1c9d75673529a473cd0b79e430a6f9&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000106-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45280172","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}
Lisa M. Campbell , Robin Fail , Rebecca Horan , Leslie Acton , Jeffrey E. Blackwatters , Alejandro Garcia Lozano , David Gill , Noella Gray , Rebecca Gruby , Emily Melvin , Grant Murray , Emilie Wiehe
{"title":"Architecture and agency for equity in areas beyond national jurisdiction","authors":"Lisa M. Campbell , Robin Fail , Rebecca Horan , Leslie Acton , Jeffrey E. Blackwatters , Alejandro Garcia Lozano , David Gill , Noella Gray , Rebecca Gruby , Emily Melvin , Grant Murray , Emilie Wiehe","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) bring increased attention to various aspects of ocean governance, including equity. One of the Ocean Decade's identified challenges is to develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy, but questions arise about how to conceptualize the multiple dimensions of equity in an ocean context. These questions become more complex as activities move away from coastal ecosystems and communities into off-shore Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), where ocean resources are recognized simultaneously as unowned/open access and as common heritage. In this paper, we mobilize the Earth System Governance analytics of ‘architecture’ and ‘agency’, to reflect on the possibilities for equity in ABNJ. Motivated by the general attention to equity in UN initiatives like the SDGs and the Ocean Decade, we describe current UN architecture for ocean governance, including principles that might support equity. Existing UN architecture focuses on distributional equity among nation states, with less attention to recognitional or procedural equity. State actors have most agency, while non-state actors can exercise some via broad UN declarations and through mechanisms like ‘major groups.’ We use on-going negotiations in the International Seabed Authority on rules for mineral exploitation and in the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under UNCLOS on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction to illustrate how existing architecture shapes possibilities for equity in ABNJ. As new governance possibilities are imagined, attending to existing architecture and agency can help avoid further entrenching existing power imbalances and unwittingly reproducing or exacerbating inequities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100144"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000131/pdfft?md5=773100d4054adc110043ec09acb99891&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000131-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43342451","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}
Benedetta Cotta , Johanna Coenen , Edward Challies , Jens Newig , Andrea Lenschow , Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
{"title":"Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda","authors":"Benedetta Cotta , Johanna Coenen , Edward Challies , Jens Newig , Andrea Lenschow , Almut Schilling-Vacaflor","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic literature review of 120 journal articles on the environmental governance of global flows and their environmental impacts, employing the notion of telecoupling as a common analytical lens.</p><p>Six themes emerged, which can guide a comparative and policy-relevant research agenda on governing global telecoupling: (1) advancement of problem-centered research (as opposed to studying existing governance arrangements), (2) displacement of environmental burdens from Global North to South from a telecoupling perspective, (3) environmental governance of telecoupling between Global South countries, (4) policy coherence in governing global flows, (5) cross-scalar interactions between private and public governance and (6) combinations of governance arrangements to effectively address environmental problems in telecoupled settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100142"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000118/pdfft?md5=f0f0d5bec5c2e818109a962c8382fb26&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000118-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725140","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":"Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation","authors":"Hege Hofstad , Trond Vedeld , Annika Agger , Gro Sandkjær Hanssen , Anders Tønnesen , Sandra Valencia","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2022.100146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article develops a typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. The typology is constructed from a combination of governance theory and empirical observations of co-creational leadership in four global, climate-ambitious cities. By applying a framework that differentiates between authority (multilevel or polycentric) and purpose (policy design or implementation) as key dimensions and categories that structure and condition cities’ performance of co-creational leadership, the typology draws out four unique yet interdependent ideal types of leadership. The typology serves two aims. First, it allows a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which contextual features present distinct types of challenges and condition co-creational leadership by cities. Second, it provides a framework for investigating what is required by city officials as leaders of co-creation. The typology underlines how co-creation is an intrinsic element of hybrid city climate governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100146"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000155/pdfft?md5=0f381b3d3c0aa984a9fc2c7879f12a7f&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811622000155-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44445047","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}