"행성적 한계선"(지구위험한계선)에서 "행성적 정의"로 (From planetary boundaries to planetary justice )

Planetary Justice | Frank Biermann

Planetary Justice | Frank Biermann

1 요한 록스트룀이 제시한 "행성적 한계선"은 널리 알려져 있는 바인데, 알고보니 이와 별개 흐름으로 "행성적 정의"의  논의가 이미 진행되어 왔다.
2 록스트룀 자신도 행성적 한계선에 머물러 있지 않았으며, 그 결과  최근 "안전하고 정의로운 회랑"(SJC )이라는 개념으로 나아 갔다..
3 이 과정에서 행성적 한계선 론에 대한 여러 관점의 비판들이 있어 왔다. 프랑크 비어만도 이에 대해 중요한 비판논문을 발표한 학자다. 비어만을 비롯한 일련의 학자군은 "지구시스템 거버넌스" 라는 프레임을 세우고 활동하고 있다.
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"What do we want? – climate justice!’ is a common slogan in the climate justice movement. I admire the energy of those who take to the street and I get much hope from their actions. Yet, as an academic I believe that we also need to develop a clearer idea of what ‘justice’ means when it comes to protecting planet Earth. We have, on the one hand, highly sophisticated debates among philosophers about justice in its various understandings. On the other hand there is a wide variety of political actors, and often political scientists, who use terms such as ‘justice’ and ‘equity’ without much reflection about what they imply. The global research platform ‘Future Earth’, for instance, starts out in their mission statement that they want to contribute to a ‘sustainable and equitable world’ – without ever defining what they mean.
In 2018, I have advanced with colleagues the notion of ‘Planetary Justice’ and developed a conceptual framework to empirically study different understandings of ‘justice’ or ‘equity’. We did not propose a particular concept of justice but sought to bring structure, clarity, simplicity and comparability among different interpretations of justice in global change research. We reduced the wealth of five broad normative approaches to systematic, parsimonious answers on three key concerns any analyst of justice is facing: the subjects of justice and their relationship; the metrics and principles of justice; and the mechanisms on the basis of which justice is pursued.
On a more normative level, I have recently argued with colleagues that we need to have a much clearer pro-poor position in earth system governance research and policy. Drawing on Gandhi’s Talisman, we argued that such a pro-poor focus requires powerful state and non-state actors across all scales of governance to abide by the three tenets of pro-poor planetary justice: (1) That the poor and marginalized majority shall not be made worse off; (2) That the lot of the poor must improve; and (3) That the poor be recognized as legitimate participants (whether directly or via representation) in decisions that impact upon them. We hoped through this intervention to have more social scientists engaging with an explicit pro-poor focus in their research. " (from Frank Biermann ).

Related research includes:

Planetary justice: A research framework (open access article, 2020)
Planetary justice: Prioritizing the poor in earth system governance (open access article, 2020)

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