Earth

This note is about the Earth as a whole.

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Earth systems
planetary science

The Evolution of the Earth System

Condie, Kent C. Earth as an Evolving Planetary System. 4th ed. 2005. Reprint, London: Academic Press, 2022.

Ecology

Tucker, Mary Evelyn. The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era. Edited by Sam Mickey, Adam Robbert, and Sean Kelly. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.

Gaian Systems

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Gaian systems

Janković, Srdja, Ana Katić, and Milan M. Ćirković. ‘Gaia as Solaris: An Alternative Default Evolutionary Trajectory’. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 52, no. 1 (2022): 129–47. https://doi.org/10/gr542n.

Systems

Lingam, Manasvi, Adam Frank, and Amedeo Balbi. ‘Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution’. Life 13, no. 9 (2023): 1850. https://doi.org/10/gstc3n.

Szerszynski, Bronislaw. ‘Infrastructuring as a Planetary Phenomenon: Timescale Separation and Causal Closure in More-Than-Human Systems’. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 47, no. 4 (2022): 193–214.

Szerszynski, Bronislaw. ‘How to Dismantle a Bus: Planetary Mobilities as Method’. In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities, 398–409. Cheltenham: Elgar, 2020.

Boundaries

Nash, Kirsty L., Christopher Cvitanovic, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Benjamin S. Halpern, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Reg A. Watson, and Julia L. Blanchard. ‘Planetary Boundaries for a Blue Planet’. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, no. 11 (2017): 1625–34. https://doi.org/10/gh6fr3.

O’Neill, Daniel W., Andrew L. Fanning, William F. Lamb, and Julia K. Steinberger. ‘A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries’. Nature Sustainability 1, no. 2 (2018): 88–95. https://doi.org/10/cj8t.

Rockström, Johan, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, et al. ‘Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity’. Ecology and Society 14, no. 2 (2009). https://doi.org/10/gd53h4.

Steffen, Will, Åsa Persson, Lisa Deutsch, Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Katherine Richardson, Carole Crumley, et al. ‘The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship’. Ambio 40, no. 7 (2011): 739. https://doi.org/10/bzwbff.

Steffen, Will, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, et al. ‘Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet’. Science 347, no. 6223 (13 February 2015): 1259855. https://doi.org/10/f3m6n9.

Global Technologies

Hybrid Earth

Frank, Adam, Axel Kleidon, and Marina Alberti. ‘Earth as a Hybrid Planet: The Anthropocene in an Evolutionary Astrobiological Context’. Anthropocene 19 (2017): 13–21. https://doi.org/10/gfz74v.

See: International Journal of Digital Earth

Guo, Huadong, Stefano Nativi, Dong Liang, Max Craglia, Lizhe Wang, Sven Schade, Christina Corban, et al. ‘Big Earth Data Science: An Information Framework for a Sustainable Planet’. International Journal of Digital Earth 13, no. 7 (2020): 743–67. https://doi.org/10/gr3zpt.

Gorelick, Noel, Matt Hancher, Mike Dixon, Simon Ilyushchenko, David Thau, and Rebecca Moore. ‘Google Earth Engine: Planetary-Scale Geospatial Analysis for Everyone’. Remote Sensing of Environment 202 (2017): 18–27. https://doi.org/10/gddm6z.

Guo, Huadong, Michael F. Goodchild, and Alessandro Annoni. Manual of Digital Earth. Cham: Springer, 2020.

Clark, Nigel, and Bronislaw Szerszynski. Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten, Juha Hiedanpää, and Katriina Soini. ‘The Co-Evolutionary Approach to Nature-Based Solutions: A Conceptual Framework’. Nature-Based Solutions 2 (2022): 100011. https://doi.org/10/gpdgn8.

Intelligence

Frank, Adam, David Grinspoon, and Sara Walker. ‘Intelligence as a Planetary Scale Process’. International Journal of Astrobiology 21, no. 2 (2022): 47–61. https://doi.org/10/gphj4k.

Health

Vidal, Clément. ‘Extending Planetary Health: Global Ethics and Global Governance in the Noosphere’. Humanistic Management Journal, 2023. https://doi.org/10/gr6vwg.

Gonzalez-Holguera, Julia, Marie Gaille, Maria del Rio Carral, Julia Steinberger, Joachim Marti, Nolwenn Bühler, Alain Kaufmann, et al. ‘Translating Planetary Health Principles Into Sustainable Primary Care Services’. Frontiers in Public Health 10 (2022).

Prescott, Susan L., and Alan C. Logan. ‘Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch’. Challenges 8, no. 2 (2017): 19. https://doi.org/10/ghk27z.

Elo, Merja, Jonne Hytönen, Sanna Karkulehto, Teea Kortetmäki, Janne S. Kotiaho, Mikael Puurtinen, and Miikka Salo, eds. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being. London: Routledge, 2023.

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Planetary Health

The system is as healthy as its least healthy part.

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See: The Lancet Planetary Health

Alahuhta, Janne, Helena Tukiainen, Maija Toivanen, Terhi Ala-Hulkko, Vahid Farrahi, Jan Hjort, Tiina M. Ikäheimo, et al. ‘Acknowledging Geodiversity in Safeguarding Biodiversity and Human Health’. The Lancet Planetary Health 6, no. 12 (2022): e987–92. https://doi.org/10/grxj3p.

Prescott, Susan L., and Alan C. Logan. ‘Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch’. Challenges 8, no. 2 (2017): 19. https://doi.org/10/ghk27z.

Nassauer, Joan Iverson. ‘Care and Stewardship: From Home to Planet’. Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape and Urban Planning at 100, 100, no. 4 (2011): 321–23. https://doi.org/10/bp4v4h.

Myers, Samuel, and Howard Frumkin. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Washington: Island Press, 2020.

Arora, Manish, Paul Curtin, Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, and Alessandro Giuliani. Environmental Biodynamics: A New Science of How the Environment Interacts with Human Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Landscape Architecture

Clément, Gilles. The Planetary Garden: And Other Writings. Translated by Sandra Morris. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Urban

Brenner, Neil. Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Berlin: Jovis Berlin, 2014.

Seitzinger, Sybil P, Uno Svedin, Carole L. Crumley, Will Steffen, Saiful Arif Abdullah, Christine Alfsen, Wendy J. Broadgate, et al. ‘Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World: Beyond City Limits’. Ambio 41, no. 8 (2012): 787–94. https://doi.org/10/f224s2.

Ruddick, Sue. ‘Situating the Anthropocene: Planetary Urbanization and the Anthropological Machine’. Urban Geography 36, no. 8 (2015): 1113–30. https://doi.org/10/gfsjjm.

Ruddick, Sue, Linda Peake, Gökbörü S Tanyildiz, and Darren Patrick. ‘Planetary Urbanization: An Urban Theory for Our Time?’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 3 (2018): 387–404. https://doi.org/10/gfc4ch.

Planetary Humanities

Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Planetary Humanities: Straddling the Decolonial/Postcolonial Divide’, Daedalus 151, no. 3 (2022): 222–33, https://doi.org/10/gtrfbs; Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘The Planet: An Emergent Humanist Category’, Critical Inquiry 46, no. 1 (2019): 1–31, https://doi.org/10/gg2rj7.

Interplanetary

Kaufman, Jason A., Andrew Lenartz, and T. Elliott Floyd. ‘An Interplanetary Land Ethic’. Sustainability and Climate Change 15, no. 1 (2022): 50–57. https://doi.org/10/gr6tsz.

Lineweaver, Charles H., and Aditya Chopra. ‘The Habitability of Our Earth and Other Earths: Astrophysical, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Limits on Planet Habitability’. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 40, no. 1 (2012): 597–623. https://doi.org/10/grm6r8.

Governance and Justice

Working Group of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture. ‘Terra Viva: Our Soil, Our Commons, Our Future. a New Vision for Planetary Citizenship’. Tuscany: Navdanya International, 2015.

Shiva, Vandana. Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace. London: Zed Books, 2016.

Gabrys, Jennifer. ‘Smart Forests and Data Practices: From the Internet of Trees to Planetary Governance’. Big Data & Society 7, no. 1 (2020): 1–10. https://doi.org/10/ggmzf2.

Biermann, Frank, and Agni Kalfagianni. ‘Planetary Justice: A Research Framework’. Earth System Governance 6 (2020): 100049. https://doi.org/10/gkm3qx.\

Stevis, Dimitris, and Romain Felli. ‘Planetary Just Transition? How Inclusive and How Just?’ Earth System Governance, Exploring Planetary Justice, 6, no. 100065 (2020): 1–11. https://doi.org/10/ghsxc7.

Hickey, Colin, and Ingrid Robeyns. ‘Planetary Justice: What Can We Learn from Ethics and Political Philosophy?’ Earth System Governance, Exploring Planetary Justice, 6 (2020): 100045. https://doi.org/10/gjphcb.

Anthony Burke, ‘Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Non-Human Power and the Grounds of World Order in the Anthropocene’, Review of International Studies 49, no. 2 (2023): 201–22, https://doi.org/10/gtztgf.

Earth System Law

Marie-Catherine Petersmann, ‘Sympoietic Thinking and Earth System Law: The Earth, Its Subjects and the Law’, Earth System Governance 9 (2021): 100114, https://doi.org/10/gmvh58.

Louis J. Kotzé et al., ‘Earth System Law: Exploring New Frontiers in Legal Science’, Earth System Governance 11 (2022): 100126, https://doi.org/10/gtztgj.

Rivers

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Water

Nienhuis, Jaap H., Wonsuck Kim, Glenn A. Milne, Melinda Quock, Aimée B.A. Slangen, and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist. ‘River Deltas and Sea-Level Rise’. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 51, no. 1 (2023): 79–104. https://doi.org/10/grdzxn.

Syvitski, Jaia, Edward Anthony, Yoshiki Saito, Florin Zăinescu, John Day, Janok P. Bhattacharya, and Liviu Giosan. ‘Large Deltas, Small Deltas: Toward a More Rigorous Understanding of Coastal Marine Deltas’. Global and Planetary Change 218 (2022): 103958. https://doi.org/10/grdzxm.

Yang, Shilun, John D. Milliman, Ping Li, and Kun Xu. ‘50,000 Dams Later: Erosion of the Yangtze River and Its Delta’. Global and Planetary Change 75, no. 1–2 (2011): 14–20. https://doi.org/10/d2drs2.

References

Garcia-Gonzalez, Francisco, William J Ripple, and Aurelio F Malo. “Scientists’ Warning to Humanity for Long-Term Planetary Thinking on Biodiversity and Humankind Preservation, a Cosmic Perspective.” BioScience 74, no. 2 (2024): 82–85. https://doi.org/10/g5tdcs.

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