A World Drifting Apart: Challenges and Possibilities of Transitioning to a More Equitable Planet

The editorial sets out a diagnostic panorama on how and why inequality of income and wealth have increased in the last 50 years. Pointing out the problematic dynamic of societies drifting apart while environmental crises threaten our future, the authors offer a selection of work-in-progress think-pieces to stimulate research and open up pathways towards substantive reduction of multiple forms of inequalities and dignified lives for all within our planetary boundaries.