The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is a world-leading research centre for sustainability research and teaching, based at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The Institute hosts numerous fellows, senior fellows and lead faculty members of the Earth System Governance Project. At the Copernicus Institute, most research on earth system governance is carried out by the Environmental Governance group. However, given the interdisciplinary character of most research at the Institute, the Environmental Governance team maintains close links to all other groups and individuals in the Institute. Read more about the Research Centre Utrecht.
Research Centre Utrecht
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Recent publications
This Element develops a new Strategic Capabilities Framework for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems. It is driven by the…
The mushrooming of trade agreements and their interlinkages with environmental governance calls for new research on the trade and environment…
Human societies increasingly interact with processes on a geological or even cosmic timescale. Despite this recognition, we still lack a…
Stimulus spending to address the economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to either facilitate the…