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Foundational guiding principles for a flourishing Earth system
Summary
This perspectives article argues that global sustainability challenges stem from humanity's systemic impact on the Earth System, compounded by fragmented development policies. The authors propose four foundational guiding principles to help align human activities with the conditions needed for a flourishing planet. The study suggests that a more coherent, systems-based approach to sustainable development policy is urgently needed.
Abstract In this perspectives article, we maintain that the current local to global sustainable development predicaments we face are the result of humanity's impact on the Earth System (ES)—that is to say, on the very systemic fabric of the ES (i.e., its functioning and configuration), combined with an insufficiently coherent application of sustainable development policy to address and resolve this systemic problem. In response to what is an urgent crisis, we propose four foundational guiding principles, which we contend provide an overarching framing that, if implemented, would offer an approach to steer global sustainable development policy in a manner that would be to the benefit of the ES and the securing of a flourishing future for all. Our principles are applicable at the levels from a local business ecosystem, national‐regional networks, to global policy.
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