The Lund Conference on Earth System Governance was held 18-20 April 2012 in Lund, Sweden. The Earth System Governance Project, the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and the Department of Political Science at Lund University organized the conference – “Towards a Just and Legitimate Earth System Governance: Addressing Inequalities”.
Conference Streams
The Earth System Governance Project’s Science Plan is organized around five analytical problems. Architecture relates to the emergence, design and effectiveness of governance arrangements. Agency addresses questions of who governs the earth system and how. Adaptiveness explores the ability of governance systems to change in the face of new knowledge and challenges as well as to enhance adaptiveness of social-ecological systems in the face of major disturbances. Accountability refers to the democratic quality of environmental governance arrangements. Finally, the theme of Allocation & Access addresses questions of justice, equity, and fairness. The Lund Conference on Earth System Governance addressed all of these five analytical problems. The conference particularly focused on research on accountability and legitimacy, and on allocation and access and critically examined questions of justice, democracy, legitimacy and accountability in research and practice.
The 2012 Lund Conference was organised in four thematic streams:
- Towards Just, Fair and Equitable Earth System Governance
- Towards Legitimate, Democratic and Accountable Earth System Governance
- Linking the “5 A’s” of Earth System Governance
- Transforming the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development
Hosts
- Lund University
- Munk School of Global Affairs
- University of Toronto
- German Institute of Sustainable Development (IDOS)
Chairs
- Karin Bäckstrand
- Lennart Olsson
Download the book of abstracts
For more information about the conference, please contact ipo@earthsystemgovernance.org.
