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  • 4 - Embedded Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene

  • Walter F. Baber, California State University, Long Beach, Robert V. Bartlett, University of Vermont
  • Book:
    Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Published online:
    12 August 2021
    Print publication:
    29 April 2021, pp 77-103

  • Summary

    To endure, policies and institutions that both protect the environment and promote human security must have an architecture based on principles that lead to creation and maintenance of a rational relationship between human places and human practices.Flexibility and open texture allow meaning to change and endure over time, as both times and people change, and to remain embedded in its cultural context.In every corner of the globe, people have devised small pieces of institutional architecture that show remarkable creativity and potential for expansion.The objective should not be replicating these experiences at grander and higher scales, nor achieving greater levels of consistency or integration in governance architecture.Instead, consilience is what should be sought in our environmental governance architecture – a greater level of coherence in our knowledge.This is the level of democratic discourse, which depends on a more solid and substantive level of explanation – grounded in holistic social experimentation – for both its subject matter and its evaluative criteria.