News
Call for Working Paper submissions
Oct 24, 2016 - Earth System Governance Working Papers are peer-reviewed online publications that broadly address questions raised by the Project’s Science and Implementation Plan. The series is open to all colleagues who seek to contribute to this research agenda.
New paper on the governance and politics of sustainability transformations by a collaborative team of 10 Earth System Governance researchers
Sep 25, 2016 - Researchers and policymakers increasingly appeal to the need for "transformation". But what do we know about the governance and politics of sustainability transformations, and what are key priorities for future research?
Publications
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Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Jeffrey Broadbent, John Sonnett, et al.
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Ambiguity, a new way of thinking about responses to climate change
Aysha Fleming, S. M. Howden
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Governing by targets: reductio ad unum and evolution of the two-degree climate target
Piero Morseletto, Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg
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Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance
John S. Dryzek, Jonathan Pickering
From our Network
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Vacancy: PhD scholarship 'Geoengineering the Southern Ocean? A transdisciplinary assessment', University of Tasmania
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Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Position in Political Science with a Specialization in Sustainability and Governance, Lund University
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Participate in a new survey on the social and political role of sustainability research
@ESG_Project
Nov 21 2016
RT @CharlesBRoger: 3 days to submit abstracts for our fully-funded @INOGOV workshop on climate governance! https://t.co/ZS7XEmxX3O @Global_…
Events
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06December 2016Nairobi, Kenya
Early Career Researchers event prior to the 2016 Nairobi Conference: Developing ...
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07December 2016Nairobi, Kenya
2016 Nairobi Conference on Earth System Governance: “Confronting Complexity an...
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19February 2017Sydney, Australia
Research workshop - Ecological democracy: Always greener on the other side?
Earth System Governance
Teaching
The Earth System Governance research alliance also organizes, endorses and provides teaching to summer schools and capacity building events and programmes.
Earth System Governance
2016 Nairobi Conference
This conference – the seventh in our conference series – will address the overarching theme of ‘Confronting Complexity and Inequality’ and will take place in Nairobi, 7-9 December 2016.
Task Force
Accountability in Global Environmental Governance
The Accountability in Global Environmental Governance network (AGEG) explores approaches to accountability, to assess the necessity accountability in the system of global environmental governance.
Task Force
Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance
Exploring key ideas that frame international discussion of the challenge of governance in times of global environmental change and earth system transformation.
Sustainable Development Goals
Navigating Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
Science and Governance in the 2030 Development Agenda
Oran R. Young Prize
The Oran R. Young Prize seeks to reward and encourage cutting-edge research by early-career scholars who could become the next generation of leading scholars in the field of environmental governance research – a field shaped and significantly influenced by Prof. Oran R. Young.