Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Planetary Well-Being

Merja Elo is a postdoctoral researcher of community ecology at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, covering topics from macroecology to conservation biology and restoration ecology.Jonne Hytönen is a research coordinator at University of Jyväskylä and a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University Department of Built Environment. He conducts research on sustainability transition in spatial planning. Sanna Karkulehto is a professor of literature at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, whose most recent publications include the ESCL Collaborative Research Award Finalist Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture (2020, Routledge, ed. with A-K. Koistinen and E. Varis).Teea Kortetmäki is a senior researcher in social sciences and philosophy at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She conducts research on environmental ethics, climate policy, and sustainability transitions. Janne S. Kotiaho is a professor of ecology and director of the School of Resource Wisdom at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the chair of the Finnish Nature Panel and a scientific advisor to the government of Finland in issues related to biodiversity and ecosystem restoration.Mikael Puurtinen is a research coordinator at the School of Resource Wisdom at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He conducts evolutionary ecology research and coordinates interdisciplinary sustainability education at his home university. Miikka Salo is a senior lecturer at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He conducts research on energy politics and environmental governance and citizenship.

• Introduction to interdisciplinary perspectives on planetary well-being Part 1. Grounding the concept 1. Planetary well-being 2. Planetary well-being: Ontology and ethics 3. Ontological differences and the pursuit of planetary well-being Part 2. Assessing ecological processes as constituents of planetary well-being 4. Ecosystem health and planetary well-being 5. A landscape approach to planetary well-being 6. Soil processes are constituents of planetary well-being Part 3. Challenging the economic imperative 7. An economic tail wagging an ecological dog? Well-being and sustainable development from the perspective of entangled history 8. Local knowledge and global justice: From hegemonic development to planetary well-being 9. Consumption and planetary well-being 10. Planetary well-being and sustainable business: A work in progress Part 4. Rethinking human well-being 11. Eudaimonia and temperance: A pathway to a flourishing life 12. Psychological well-being and pro-environmental behaviour 13. The ecosocial paradigm in social work: Striving for planetary well-being Part 5. Fostering transformation towards planetary well-being 14. Extinction risk indices for measuring and promoting planetary well-being 15. Planetary well-being accounting system for organizations 16. Financial system in steering the economy towards planetary well-being 17. Towards cultural transformation: Culture as planetary well-being 18. Education for planetary well-being

"The work of IPBES has shown that many sustainable development goals will not be met by 2030 with current negative trends in biodiversity and may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors. Transformative change calls for deep systemic transformations in our production and consumption habits, and in the way people value nature and conceive a good quality of life. This novel work on planetary well-being addresses the critical need for more work on transformative change, in particular by conceptualising well-being for all life on Earth, for humans and non-humans." Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)"This wide-ranging, multifaceted volume advances a bold theoretical proposal: Earth as a whole, as an integrated complex system, can fare better or worse – in specifiable, measurable, theoretically defensible terms. Then the volume advances another, equally bold suggestion: thinking in terms of planetary wellbeing can inform policies in novel ways at various scales – to include and balance the needs, interests, leanings, and powers of all those humans and nonhumans that across time concur to propel Earth’s transformations. This volume opens and most competently orients a whole new research program, which is as ambitious and urgent as the theoretical and practical tasks it sets for itself."Marcello Di Paola, Assistant Professor in the History of Philosophy, University of Palermo, Italy