Sustainability Science – Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance

Special Issue: Earth System Governance – Task Force Initiative on Sustainability Science

July 10, 2017 Admin Sustainability Science

We are pleased to announce a special issue of Challenges in Sustainability dedicated to research undertaken by the sustainability science[…]

Call for Papers – 2016 Nairobi Conference on Earth System Governance

March 9, 2016 Admin Anthropocene, Ecological/Green Democracy, Environment, representation, rights, Environmental Limits, Environmental Policy Integration, Environmental Security, Green Economy, Low Carbon Transition, Planetary Boundaries, Resilience, Sustainability Science, Sustainable Development, Transformations and Transitions toward Sustainability

We invite you to the 2016 Conference on Earth System Governance, which will address the overarching theme of ‘Confronting Complexity and Inequality’.

See the conference website earthsystemgovernance.org/nairobi2016 for updates.

Call for papers for a special issue in Challenges in Sustainability

January 8, 2016 Admin Sustainability Science

We are soliciting submissions for a special issue on Sustainability Science in the journal Challenges in Sustainability (CiS) on how sustainability science can engage with and contribute to the Earth System Governance conceptual framework, such as the five ‘A:s’: Architecture, Agency, Adaptiveness, Accountability, and Allocation & Access. Deadline: 22 January 2016.

Introduction video of Taskforce by James Meadowcroft

October 3, 2015 Admin Anthropocene, Ecological/Green Democracy, Environment, representation, rights, Environmental Limits, Environmental Policy Integration, Environmental Security, Green Economy, Low Carbon Transition, Planetary Boundaries, Resilience, Sustainability Science, Sustainable Development, Transformations and Transitions toward Sustainability

James Meadowcroft (Carleton University), member of the Earth System Governance Lead Faculty, presents the Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance.

Welcome

February 6, 2015 Admin Anthropocene, Ecological/Green Democracy, Environment, representation, rights, Environmental Limits, Environmental Policy Integration, Environmental Security, Green Economy, Low Carbon Transition, Planetary Boundaries, Resilience, Sustainability Science, Sustainable Development, Transformations and Transitions toward Sustainability

The Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance is a new research initiative established to explore key ideas that are coming to frame international discussion of the challenge of governance in times of global environmental change and earth system transformation.