‘Planetary boundaries’—exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

Galaz, Victor; Biermann, Frank; Crona, Beatrice; Loorbach, Derk; Folke, Carl; Olsson, Per; Nilsson, Måns; Allouche, Jérémy; Persson, Åsa; Reischl, Gunilla

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.006

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“…Indeed, the complex interplay of human actions shaping biosphere capacity has placed humanity in a novel situation of interactions of social-ecological systems across scales that are expressed in new, intertwined, and often turbulent and surprising ways (e.g., Walker et al 2009b, Biggs et al 2011, Homer-Dixon et al 2015 affecting people and places in disparate ways. The situation presents major challenges but also opportunities for adaptation and transformation (e.g., Adger et al 2011, Biermann et al 2012, Galaz et al 2012a,b, Hill and Engle 2013.…”

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“…There is also the problem of fit between institutions, governance, and socialecological systems (e.g., Galaz et al 2008, Ekstrom and Young 2009, Treml et al 2015 and how institutions and governance systems can handle change and stability simultaneously (e.g., Duit et al 2010, Voß and Bornemann 2011, Green et al 2013 including cascading changes of an intertwined world (e.g., . Global governance challenges are raised in relation to planetary boundaries and stewardship (e.g., Biermann et al 2012, Galaz et al 2012a) and the emergence of new forms of institutions for governance of the biosphere (e.g., Galaz et al 2012b). …”

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Resilience (Republished)

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ABSTRACT.Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain development in the face of expected and surprising change and diverse pathways of development and potential thresholds between them. The evolution of resilience thinking is coupled to socialecological systems and a truly intertwined human-environment planet. Resilience as persistence, adaptability, and transformability of complex adaptive social-ecological systems is the focus, clarifying the dynamic and forward-looking nature of the concept. Resilience thinking emphasizes that social-ecological systems, from the individual, to community, to society as a whole, are embedded in the biosphere. The biosphere connection is an essential observation if sustainability is to be taken seriously. In the continuous advancement of resilience thinking there are efforts aimed at capturing resilience of social-ecological systems and finding ways for people and institutions to govern social-ecological dynamics for improved human well-being, at the local, across levels and scales, to the global. Consequently, in resilience thinking, development issues for human well-being, for people and planet, are framed in a context of understanding and governing complex social-ecological dynamics for sustainability as part of a dynamic biosphere.This invited article is a republication of Folke, C. 2016. "Resilience" of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

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“…Although research programs have explored the relationships between specific pairs of these systems, for instance, the waterfood, energy-finance, energy-climate, and climate-food relationships, no research program has explicated the joint and coevolving behavior of all five systems together, especially not in light of the biosphere's capacity to sustain these systems (Steffen et al 2007, Galaz et al 2012). Yet humanity's fate likely resides at the nexus of these systems.…”

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Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis

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ABSTRACT. Recent global crises reveal an emerging pattern of causation that could increasingly characterize the birth and progress of future global crises. A conceptual framework identifies this pattern's deep causes, intermediate processes, and ultimate outcomes. The framework shows how multiple stresses can interact within a single social-ecological system to cause a shift in that system's behavior, how simultaneous shifts of this kind in several largely discrete social-ecological systems can interact to cause a far larger intersystemic crisis, and how such a larger crisis can then rapidly propagate across multiple system boundaries to the global scale. Case studies of the 2008-2009 financial-energy and food-energy crises illustrate the framework. Suggestions are offered for future research to explore further the framework's propositions.

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“…Governance of complex systems is also at the core of the work of Duit and Galaz (2008), in which they aim to broaden the scope of traditional governance theory and apply it to processes characterized by nonlinear dynamics, threshold effects, cascades, and limited predictability. In addition, resilience thinking has contributed greatly to research on earth systems governance (Biermann 2007, Galaz et al 2012, vulnerability (Adger 2000, Brooks et al 2005, and locallevel institutional dynamics (Anderies et al 2004, Ostrom 2005, Janssen et al 2006, Berkes and Ross 2013.…”

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Resilience revisited: taking institutional theory seriously

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2015

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ABSTRACT. Resilience thinking has in recent decades emerged as a key perspective within research and policy focusing on sustainable development and the global environmental challenges of today. Originating from ecology, the concept has gained a reputation far beyond its original disciplinary borders and now plays a key role in the study and practice of environmental governance in general. Although I fully support the interdisciplinary ambitions of resilience thinking, I argue that if the resulting scholarly insights and policy advice are to be of any true added value, resilience thinking should take existing social scientific advances more seriously. In particular, I argue that resilience thinking does not give sufficient recognition to the already existing accounts of, for example, institutional change trajectories, the dynamics of path dependence, the distributional character of institutions, or the fundamental political determinants and drivers of institutional design and diversity. A resilience theory truly recognizing social scientific advances in these areas, however, has substantial chances of truly furthering our understanding of and practical abilities in facing the fundamental environmental challenges of today.

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‘Planetary boundaries’—exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

Cited by 129 publications

References 40 publications

Resilience (Republished)

Resilience (Republished)

Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis

Resilience revisited: taking institutional theory seriously

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