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Save the date for the 2027 Earth System Governance Conference |
We are delighted to announce that the 2027 Earth System Governance Conference will be hosted by the Climate Change Leadership Unit at Uppsala University, Sweden, 20-24 September. More information will be revealed soon. Save it in your calendar → | Call for Co-Conveners to the Working Group on Democracy | The Working Group on Democracy is looking for two co-conveners to help energize the group and its activities.
Are you researching questions of democracy, power and legitimacy, and how these relate to the challenges of governing contemporary social-ecological interactions? Learn more and apply → | The Research Centre Tokyo, launched in 2026 after moving from Shonan Fujisawa, continues a long-standing Earth System Governance research tradition at Keio University. Hosted by Keio STAR and led by Prof. Kanako Morita, the Centre works with partner institutions worldwide to advance transdisciplinary research and support SDG implementation.
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| | | Early-bird registration is open for the summer school 'Climate Action Beyond Governments: Assessing and Strengthening Integrity', offering reduced fees until 31 March 2026. The summer school takes place at Radboud University, the Netherlands, 22–26 June 2026. A limited number of scholarships for participants from the Global South are also available.
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| | | The Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University is hosting the global conference 'Where Do We Grow from Here? Environmental Justice and the Politics of Hope', on 13-14 April, 2026. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, welcoming over 300 presenters from over 35 different countries. Registration for both in-person and virtual attendees is open, with a number of free virtual tickets. | | | | | Research Fellow Publications | -
Doe, S.S.P. (2026). Essay 28: Global Spaces for Co-Existence, Governance, and Sustainability: Intersections of Climate Change, Herder–Farmer Conflicts, and Human Security from the Regional Context of ECOWAS. In: Acharya, A. et al. (eds) Essays on Global Regionalism II. United Nations University Series on Regionalism, vol 31. Springer, Cham.
- Iyabano A., Leeuwis, C. 2026. The technical, economic, and advocacy intermediation functions of farmers’ organisations in Burkina Faso. Development in Practice.
- Lyu, W., Langlet-Uranüs, A. and B.M. Vadrot, A. (2026). From data rationales to data infrastructure: Implications for the BBNJ clearing-house mechanism. Marine Policy.
- van Havre, B., Beaudoin, S., Fequino, L. and Chaloux, A. (2026). The Convention on Biological Diversity. Encyclopedia of Ecology, 3rd ed. Elsevier.
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- PhD position with JUST FUTURES: ReStor(y)ing (Un)just Land-Water Relationships Through Art-activism, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
- PhD Position JUST FUTURES: ReStor(y)ing Multispecies Futures Through Digital Media,
University of Twente, the Netherlands.
- PhD position with the GREENLOSS project, Sciences Po Paris, France.
- 3 PhD positions with Governance of Loss in the EU, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- 5 PhD positions with the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, University of Bath or University of East Anglia, UK.
- 4 Predoctoral Assistants for the new research platform Multilateralism Revisited, Universität Wien, Austria.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Governance, Monash University, Australia.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cohort - Integrated Assessment of Data Centres, University Notre Dame, USA.
- Research Fellow in Deep Uncertainty, Environmental Governance and Science-Policy Engagement, University of Birmingham, UK.
- Assistant Professor in International Relations, Nijmegen School of Management, the Netherlands.
- UFS Futuring Summer School: Futuring for Democracy, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- Global Citizen Education Hub 'Agency and Earth System Governance', 26 May, ZAF Hamburg, Germany.
| Zuliehat Ohunene Abdullahi, Nigerian Defence Academy
| | | | Dr. Shahbaz Altaf, National Uni of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad | | | | Ana Dias, University of Minho | | | |
Tadela Terefe Gashaw, Addis Ababa University | | | Dr. Suresh Govindapuram, Krea University | | | | Dr. Sandya Gunasekara, University of Queensland | | | Dr. David Krogmann, University of Bremen | | |
Dr. Francesco Lucherini, University of Bologna | | | Laila Mendy, Uppsala University | | | Dr. Hiba Mohammad, Università degli Studi di Brescia | | | | Dr. Khaldoon A. Mourad, C4SV | | | |
Dr. Bruno Meirelles de Oliveira, AZTI Marine Research | | | |
Dr. Laxmi Prasad Pant, University of Greenwich | | | | Rahul Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University | | | | Ravindra Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University | | | Rahel Zimmermann, University of Geneva | | | |
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