Earth System Governance initiative
Welcome at the website of the Earth System Governance initiative. This initiative is mandated by the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), to develop the science plan for a 10-year global research programme on "earth system governance".
The Earth System Governance initiative builds on the results of an earlier long-term research programme, the IHDP core project Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). It is envisaged that the Earth System Governance Project will be launched as a new global research programme in October 2008 in New Delhi. Although the Earth System Governance initiative is social science-oriented, we believe that it will also be relevant for natural scientists and the entire global change research community.
On this website, we inform on the initiative, present first drafts of the science plan, and share information on the many partner organisations and affiliated researchers that have joined the initiative since 2007. More on the background of the initiative, its research questions and on the concept of 'earth system governance' can be found here.
