Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts.

Autor: Chapin FS 3rd; Professor Emeritus, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA. terry.chapin@alaska.edu., Weber EU; Andlinger Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA., Bennett EM; Bieler School of Environment, McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3V9, Canada., Biggs R; Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden., van den Bergh J; ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.; SBE & IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Adger WN; College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK., Crépin AS; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden., Polasky S; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA., Folke C; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden., Scheffer M; Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands., Segerson K; Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-1063, USA., Anderies JM; School of Human Evolution and Social Change and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-2401, USA., Barrett S; Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA., Cardenas JC; Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA., Carpenter SR; Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706-1413, USA., Fischer J; Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany., Kautsky N; Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden., Levin SA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1003, USA., Shogren JF; Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071-3985, USA., Walker B; CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia., Wilen J; Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA., de Zeeuw A; Tilburg School of Economics and Management, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ambio [Ambio] 2022 Sep; Vol. 51 (9), pp. 1907-1920. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 05.
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01721-3
Abstrakt: Transformation toward a sustainable future requires an earth stewardship approach to shift society from its current goal of increasing material wealth to a vision of sustaining built, natural, human, and social capital-equitably distributed across society, within and among nations. Widespread concern about earth's current trajectory and support for actions that would foster more sustainable pathways suggests potential social tipping points in public demand for an earth stewardship vision. Here, we draw on empirical studies and theory to show that movement toward a stewardship vision can be facilitated by changes in either policy incentives or social norms. Our novel contribution is to point out that both norms and incentives must change and can do so interactively. This can be facilitated through leverage points and complementarities across policy areas, based on values, system design, and agency. Potential catalysts include novel democratic institutions and engagement of non-governmental actors, such as businesses, civic leaders, and social movements as agents for redistribution of power. Because no single intervention will transform the world, a key challenge is to align actions to be synergistic, persistent, and scalable.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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