Issue 1 of new EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE journal now online
Biermann, F.H.B. (Frank)
We are excited to share that Issue #1 of EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE, the new peer-reviewed journal, is now completed. The issue is fully open access and can be downloaded here.
This issue contains a broad mix of articles that showcases the breadth of the ESG community and of the new journal:
Editorial to the inaugural issue of ‘Earth System Governance’ / Frank BIERMANN
Constructing diagnostic trees: A stepwise approach to institutional design / Oran R. YOUNG
New directions in earth system governance research / Sarah BURCH, Aarti GUPTA, Cristina Y.A. INOUE, Agni KALFAGIANNI, Åsa PERSSON, Andrea K. GERLAK, Atsushi ISHII, James PATTERSON, Jonathan PICKERING, Michelle SCOBIE, Jeroen van der HEIJDEN, Joost VERVOORT, Carolina ADLER, Michael BLOOMFIELD, Riyanti DJALANTE, John DRYZEK, Victor GALAZ, Christopher GORDON, Renée HARMON, Sikina JINNAH, Rakhyun E. KIM, Lennart OLSSON, Judith van LEEUWEN, Vasna RAMASAR, Paul WAPNER, and Ruben ZONDERVAN.
Studying urban climate governance: Where to begin, what to look for, and how to make a meaningful contribution to scholarship and practice / Jeroen van der HEIJDEN
Earth system law: The juridical dimensions of earth system governance / Louis J. KOTZE, Rakhyun E. KIM
NAFTA 2.0: What are the implications for environmental governance? / Kyla TIENHAARA
EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE is a new open-access journal for all those interested in the study of institutions, political processes and governance mechanisms related to environmental change, earth system transformations and the quest for global sustainability. The journal is open to scholars from all disciplines, empirical fields, and theoretical and methodological approaches. In addition, this new journal serves as the flagship outlet for the Earth System Governance Project, a leading global research alliance in this field. See the Editorial to the inaugural issue of ‘Earth System Governance’ for more information on the journal and the type of articles we are looking for.
EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE is an open access journal. All published articles are freely available through the internet to anybody, anywhere, at all times. The journal has been launched as a key global forum for the scientifically rigorous but also solution-driven debate on how to respond to global environmental change and earth system transformation by making our governance systems, from local to global levels, more effective, more equitable, and more democratic.
We are excited to see Issue 1 of our new journal now in print; several other papers are currently copy-edited and in the pipeline.
With best regards, also on behalf of the editorial team and the Editorial Board,
Frank Biermann
Editor-in-Chief, EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE