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  • 2 - Conceptualizing Agency and Agents in Earth System Governance

  • from Part One - Introduction and Overview
  • Edited by Michele M. Betsill, Colorado State University, Tabitha M. Benney, University of Utah, Andrea K. Gerlak, University of Arizona
  • Book:
    Agency in Earth System Governance
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 25-37

  • Summary

    − ESG–Agency scholarship highlights the fragmented, expanding, and complex forms of authority that prescribe, steer, and govern behaviour on environmental issues. − Agency scholarship on earth system governance covers interdisciplinary debates in four broad areas: the types of agents, the ways authority is exercised, the nature of agents’ influence, and the varieties of governance structures or architectures within which agents act.− Even with increasing scholarship into the fragmentation of authority and multiplication of the types agents to include nonstate, transnational, and subnational actors, states continue to be the centre of agency scholarship. Future research is needed on agency theory and the theoretical nature of relationships between actors and within differing geographic, economic, and political contexts.