The 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance on ‘Bridging Sciences and Societies for Sustainability Transformations’ was held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with virtual access and presentations also available. The conference was organized by the Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges (RCSC) and was part of the University’s celebrations of its 100-year anniversary.
Conference Streams
In addition to five analytical lenses of the earth system governance research agenda, the 2023 Radboud Conference featured a programmatic focus on bridging sciences and societies for sustainability transformations – in other words inter- and transdisciplinarity. The conference organizers, therefore, particularly invited inter- and transdisciplinary research teams and researchers based in the global North and South, from different scientific disciplines, including the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, as well as practitioners (e.g., policy makers, civil society, business actors, citizens groups) working on specific sustainability challenges related to e.g., water, energy, food, biodiversity, forests, climate change, oceans and pollution.
The 2023 Radboud Conference was organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the ESG research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Earth System Governance Science and Implementation Plan: Architecture and Agency; Democracy and Power; Justice and Allocation; Anticipation and Imagination; Adaptiveness and Reflexivity; and a sixth stream focusing on the theme of the conference – bridging sciences and societies for sustainability transformations.
Hosts
- Radboud University
Co-hosts & Sponsors
- German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
- The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
- Future Earth
Chairs
- Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
- Birka Wicke
