Berlin Conference 2010
The Berlin Conference on the Social dimensions of environmental change and governance will be held in Berlin on 8-9 October 2010.
The deadline for abstracts was April 6, 2010.
More information can be found here.
Call for Papers: Colorado Conference 2011
Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
Colorado State University, 17-20 May 2011
We invite you to the Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance to be held 17-20 May 2011 on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. This conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year research program under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The first Earth System Governance conference was held in Amsterdam in December 2009. The Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance is hosted jointly by the Environmental Governance Working Group and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University along with the IHDP Earth System Governance Project.
For more information on the conference themes as well as details regarding abstract submission (due 15 August 2010), please click here.
PhD Symposium and Conference on Climate Economics and Policy
PhD Symposium: Towards Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Societies
Date: 15 September 2010
Location: London School of Economics
The symposium aims to build capacities and communities of early stage researchers in areas related to climate change economics and policy. It will include presentations from students at all stages of the PhD process, and consider key conceptual, methodological and empirical dimensions.
The symposium will include:
- Keynote lectures on the low carbon economy and on climate resilient societies
- Research methods workshops on a range of key topics, from governance processes to linking climate science and economics
- Opportunities for PhD students to present and receive constructive feedback on their research ideas and findings
For more information and to apply, please click here.
CCCEP Conference: Grand Challenges in the Transition Towards A Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Society
Date: 16 September 2010
Location: London School of Economics
This conference will include a keynote address and presentations from leading academics, policy makers and practitioners on major themes such as climate uncertainties and innovations for a low carbon economy.
For more information and to apply, please click here.
New Working Papers
The latest (downloadable) Global Governance Working Papers:
- The Good, the Bad, and the Even Worse: Explaining Variation in the Performance of Energy Partnerships
- Transparency to the Rescue? Assessing Effectiveness of 'Governance by Disclosure'
- A Tale of Two Crises - What the Global Financial Crisis means for the Global Environmental Crisis
- Regime Conflicts in Global Environmental Governance - A Framework for Analysis.
- Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures - The Case of Climate Policy.
- Partnerships for Sustainable Development: An Appraisal Framework.
About the project
The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org) is a joint research programme of twelve European research institutions that seeks to advance understanding of the new actors, institutions and mechanisms of global governance. While we address the phenomenon of global governance in general, most of our research projects focus on global environmental change and governance for sustainable development.
The Global Governance Project is co-ordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and includes associate faculty members and research fellows from twelve European institutions: Science Po Bordeaux, University of Bremen, Freie Universität Berlin (Environmental Policy Research Centre), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund University, Oldenburg University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Wageningen University. The Project was created in 2001 with the endorsement of the Institutional Dimensions core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Analytically, we define global governance by three criteria, which also shape the research groups within the Project.
First, we see global governance as characterised by the increasing participation of actors other than states, ranging from private actors such as multinational corporations and (networks of) scientists and environmentalists to intergovernmental organisations ('multiactor governance'). These new actors of global governance are the focus of our research group Manus-Managers of Global Change.
Second, we see global governance as marked by new mechanisms of organisation such as public-private and private-private partnerships, alongside the traditional system of legal treaties negotiated by states. This is the focus of our research group Mecglo-New Mechanisms of Global Governance.
Third, we see global governance as characterised by different layers and clusters of rule-making and rule-implementation, both vertically between supranational, international, national and subnational layers of authority ('multilevel governance') and horizontally between different parallel rule-making systems. This stands at the centre of our research group Mosaic-'Multiple Options, Solutions and Approaches: Institutional Interplay and Conflict'.
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Joint research programme
Glogov.org is a joint research programme of the:
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Free University Berlin
- University of Bremen
- Science Po Bordeaux
- Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Lund University
- Oldenburg University
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Wageningen University
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Fridtjof Nansen Institute
