Welcome at the website of the Earth System Governance Project! The Earth System Governance Project is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and builds on the results of the former IHDP project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC).
Earth system governance is defined in this project as the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, rule-making systems, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change and, in particular, earth system transformation, within the normative context of sustainable development.
On this website, we inform on the background of the project, the concept of 'earth system governance', and the project's research questions. We share information on relevant events and publications, and present the network of Associate Faculty, Research Fellows, Research Centres and Affiliated Projects.
News & Announcements
The Berlin Conference Steering Committee and its partners invite papers for this year's 'Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change'. The 2010 conference will be the tenth event in the series of annual European Conferences. This year's discussions will address the theme 'Social dimensions of environmental change and governance'. The conference will be held in Berlin, 8-9 October 2010. Paper proposals are expected by April 6, 2010. [Call for Papers (pdf)]
Call for Papers on 'Governing and Implementing REDD+' for a special section of a leading international journal in environmental science and policy, edited by Esteve Corbera (University of East Anglia), Heike Schroeder (University of Oxford), and Oliver Springate-Baginski (University of East Anglia). This project is supported by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests and the Earth System Governance Project. [Call for Papers (pdf)]
The Adaptiveness and Innovation in Earth System Governance blog, which is hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in collaboration with Think Globally Radio, is now upscaling, and will include inputs from a range of international research partners in the Netherlands, Canada, UK, and the US.
On 22 October 2009 the Earth System Governance Project, in collaboration with the European Commission Delegation in Beijing, organised a Roundtable on The Future of Environmental Governance in China: New actors, new mechanisms and global dimensions. The successful Roundtable was attended by thirty six high-level academics and practitioners in environmental governance in China, and has been a promising start of long-term collaboration on Earth System Governance in China. [Agenda and Report]
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