World-Earth System Governance

Resource System
Global ecological systems
Resource Units
multiple
Location
Global (land)

This case is a focal point for 'gobal' models - i.e. modes with no particular spatial resolution.  There are many of these - any economic growth model with some sort of ecological constraint.

World-Earth System
Resource System

tererstrial and marine ecosystems connected by atmospheric dynamics

Resource Users

All World-Earth system citizens

Public Infrastructure Providers

Global governance structures of which there are few examples.

Public Infrastructure

Institutional arrangements and regulatory frameworks to deal with global externanities - i.e. atmoshperic carbon, ocean acidification, etc.

Relationship 1

Resource users contribute to global externalities by dumping material (carbon).

Relationship 2

Internatonal activism

Relationship 3

Funding for global protocals and investment, ie. green climate fund.

Relationship 4

RS => PI: monitoring

Relationship 5

direct intervention in access to the natural infrastructure.

Relationship 6

restrictions on emissions, subsidies for alternative energy, carbon emission reduction

Exogenous Drivers 7 (Resource System)

endogenous system reorganization.

Exogenous Drivers 7 (Public Infrastructure)

geopolitical tension, shocks from endogenous earth system change.

Exogenous Drivers 8 (Resource Users)

geopolitics, changing narratives, information distortion

Exogenous Drivers 8 (Public Infrastructure Providers)

political power assymetries

Human Infrastructure, Private and Human-Made (Resource Users)

Energy intensive machines leveraged by private individuals, e.g.: cars, computers, houses, airplanes, factories, etc.

Human Infrastructure, Private and Human-Made (Public Infrastructure Providers)
(none specified)