The 2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance was held 5-8 November 2018 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Utrecht Conference had a special status, as in 2018, the Earth System Governance Project’s Science and Implementation Plan (2009) was replaced by a new 10-year science plan; accompanied by leadership changes.The conference therefore focused on harvesting the many findings of our community over the last decade, combined with a bold outlook to the future and the next scientific challenges for earth system governance research.
Conference Streams
The 2018 Utrecht Conference was organized around the core analytical problems that have structured the last decade of earth system governance research, while providing an outlook on emerging themes and new directions. Abstracts could be submitted to one of the following six conference streams:
- Architectures of Earth System Governance
- Agency in Earth System Governance
- Accountability, Legitimacy and Democracy in the Anthropocene
- Allocation, Access and Equity in Earth System Governance
- Adaptiveness, Resilience, and the Transformation of Earth System Governance
- Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Earth System Governance
Hosts
- Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences
Co-hosts & Sponsors
- Colorado State University
- German Development Institute
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
- Keio University
- Munk School of Global Affairs
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- University of Waterloo
Chairs
- Frank Biermann
- Agni Kalfagianni
Download the book of abstracts
Important Links
Conference Programme
Conference photos
Video interviews
Keynote Remarks of Prof. Joseph Alcam
