Advancing research on global environmental change and governance
The Earth System Governance Project is a global research network that aims to advance knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. The network connects and mobilizes scholars from the social sciences and humanities researching at local and global scales.
We are delighted to invite you to the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Next year's conference will take place in-person, with virtual access and presentations…
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taskforces and working groups
Through these groups, we engage substantively with key issues of global environmental change confronting contemporary societies.
The Earth System Governance ‘Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation’ seeks to bring together scholars that share a common interest in making…
The Planetary Justice Taskforce of the Earth System Governance Project brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are concerned…
Aims and scope The ongoing loss of nature and biodiversity due to human activity, exacerbated by climate change, is one…
The Urban Working Group of the Earth System Governance Project was created at the end of a meeting on Urban…
This group gathers researchers from various disciplines who are interested in questions of democracy, power and legitimacy, and how these…
Human, animal and environmental health constitutes a critically important issue in relation to earth system governance, with far-reaching equity and…
The proposal for a new geological epoch dominated by human activity – the Anthropocene – highlights the planet-shaping power of…
Latest news and perspectives
Yves Zinngrebe, Ioannis Agapakis, Elsa Tsioumani, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Joanna Smallwood, Johannes Förster, Ulrike Tröger, Ina Lehmann,…
We would like to inform you of the recently initiated South-South Initiative of the Earth System Governance…
Devon Cantwell-Chavez, Jose Manuel Leal, Anne Bach Nielsen, and Marielle Papin About a year…
Earth System Governance Publications
The project’s flagship publications seek to advance knowledge in our field and provide authoritative stances on existing and emerging aspects of earth system governance research
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