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2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance: ‘Urgent Transformations and Earth System Governance: Towards Sustainability and Justice’

Mexico
Oaxaca
Event start: 6 November 2019
End date: 8 November 2019

Event description

The 2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance was held 6–8 November 2019 in Oaxaca, Mexico. The conference was hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Earth System Governance Project.

Conference Streams

The 2019 Mexico Conference will be organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on specific issues and challenges relevant to the Latin American region. Reflecting major global and regional challenges for Earth
System Governance research, the title of the Mexico Conference is ‘Urgent Transformations and Earth System Governance: Towards Sustainability and Justice’. The six thematic streams of the 2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance are:

  1. Architecture and Agency
  2. Democracy and Power
  3. Justice and Allocation
  4. Anticipation and Imagination
  5. Adaptiveness and Reflexivity
  6. Socio-Environmental Impacts of Economic Globalization

Hosts

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico

Co-hosts & Sponsors

  • Utrecht University
  • University of Arizona
  • German Development Institute
  • Elsevier

Chairs

  • Leticia Merino

 

Important Links

Conference Programme

Book of Abstracts

Event photos on Facebook

 

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