Global Economic and Earth System Governance: A Call for Planetary Justice
- 29 sep 2025
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The disruptions to the earth’s system have reached an unprecedented scale, posing enormous challenges around the globe. The world has entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age in which human activity is recognised as the dominant force driving the negative changes in climate and environment, and the very earth system upon which our existence depends. In such an era of planet-wide transformation, some scholars have argued for a new model for planet-wide environmental politics: earth system governance (Biermann, 2007). Earth system governance is broader than traditional environmental policy and emphasises the complexities of integrated socio-ecological systems (for a focus on natural resources, see Armstrong, chapter 21 in this volume). Key concerns of earth system governance are broad and often include interdependent challenges such as land use change, food system disruptions, climate change, environment-induced migration, species extinction and air pollution.
Brandi, C., Gönenç, D., Kashwan, P., Biermann, F., Gupta, A., & Okereke, C. (2025). Global economic and earth system governance: a call for planetary justice. In Justice in Global Economic Governance: Normative and Empirical Perspectives on Promoting Fairer Globalisation. Edinburgh University Press.