Abstract

The current climate, ecological, and health crises appear in the form of complex disasters due to inter-connectivity, frequency, repetition and inequity of disasters. The critical acuteness of the current situation goes to the stage of climate emergency or climate hell beyond the climate crisis. As a process of moving toward comprehensive views, a new framework of perspectives and concepts is needed, which is based on the multilateral analyses on the present emergency. Therefore, this paper aims to seek integrated approaches for grasping the nature of today’s complex crises. Then, this paper presents the concept of ‘Planetarity’, ‘Safe and Just World-Earth System’ and ‘Planetary Corridor’ as a proper way. By and through these approaches, we can overcome the polarized dichotomy between ‘World’ as a human community and ‘Earth’ as an environmental condition. The planetary approaches encompass the World and Earth system simultaneously with the planetarity, a heterogeneous space-time where irregular entanglement and co-existence of multiple, but contradictory facets occurs. The pursuit of planetarity and a planetary corridor will broaden a theoretically and epistemologically feasible path toward safe and just solutions of complex disasters.