Sympoietic thinking and Earth System Law: The Earth, its subjects and the law

• Published in: Earth system governance Vol. 9; p. 100114
• Main Author: Petersmann, Marie-Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2021; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anthropocene; Anthropocene epoch; Autopoiesis; Earth system law; Earth system science; environmental law; governance; Sympoiesis; Systems thinking; Sympoiesis; Anthropocene; Autopoiesis; Systems thinking; Earth system law

This article explores what the emerging paradigm of ‘Earth System Law’ suggests in terms of reconfigurations of the Earth, its subjects and the law. Which representations of the Earth and of its subjects does Earth System Law think with? And which human-nonhuman relations do these systemic reconcept...