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'Earth System Governance: Theories and Strategies for Sustainability'
24 May 2007 - 26 May 2007
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Sponsors/Organizers
ADAM Project--Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy (EU Integrated Project)
GLOGOV.ORG--The Global Governance Project
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP)
NEWATER Project--New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty (EU Integrated Project)
REFGOV Project--Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest (EU Integrated Project)
SENSE--The Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
ENDORSEMENTS
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
World Academy of Art and Science
Event URL: http://www.2007amsterdamconference.org
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam and its partner institutions invite papers for the 2007
Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change, to be held in Amsterdam on 24-26 May 2007. This conference will be
the seventh event in the series of annual European Conferences on the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001.
This year's conference will address the theme 'Earth System Governance:
Theories and Strategies for Sustainability'.
We define earth system governance as the sum of the formal and informal
rule systems and actor--networks at all levels of human society (from
local to global) that are set up to influence the co-evolution of human
and natural systems in a way that secures the sustainable development of
human society--that is, a development that meets the needs of present
generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs. This notion of earth system governance is
phenomenological inasmuch as it describes an emerging social trend
expressed in hundreds of international regimes, international
bureaucracies, national agencies, local and transnational activists groups
and expert networks. At the same time, earth system governance can be
understood as a political project that engages more and more actors who
seek to strengthen the current architecture of institutions and networks
at local and global levels. In both meanings, earth system governance is a
demanding and vital subject of research in the social sciences, which we
hope will be reflected in lively discussions at the 2007 Amsterdam
Conference.
The theme of earth system governance also reflects recent attempts at
defining the role of the social sciences within the Earth System Science
Partnership, which unites the World Climate Research Programme, the
International Biosphere-Geosphere Programme, the DIVERSITAS programme, and
the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental
Change (IHDP). The mission statement of the Earth System Science
Partnership calls upon social scientists to develop 'strategies for Earth
System management'. Yet what such strategies might be, and how such
strategies are to be developed, remains poorly understood in the social
sciences.
The challenge of earth system governance raises many theoretical,
methodological and empirical questions. For the 2007 Amsterdam Conference,
we invite papers on the following seven core conference themes:
1. Theories and Methods for Analysing Earth System Governance, that is,
papers on new theoretical advances and methodological tools to better
study earth system governance, including new methods and tools that
combine quantitative and modelling approaches-also from the natural
sciences-with qualitative, case-based methods and participatory,
stakeholder-oriented methods;
2. Architectures of Earth System Governance, that is, papers on the
effectiveness of the overall governance system including problems of
institutional fragmentation, interlinkages, and change;
3. Adaptive Governance, that is, papers on the ways in which
institutions at all levels-ranging from local to global-can adapt to
large-scale changes in their natural environment;
4. Agency Beyond the State, that is, papers on the influence of
non-state actors in national and global environmental governance,
including the effectiveness of private governance and stakeholder
involvement at all levels;
5. Accountability and Legitimacy of Earth System Governance, that is,
papers on the democratic foundations of environmental governance at the
local, national, and global levels;
6. Allocation Mechanisms in Environmental Governance, that is, papers on
the distributive effects of global and national environmental institutions
and governance mechanisms; and
7. The Reflexive Governance of Global Public Goods, that is, papers on
the institutional analysis of participatory decision-making, deliberative
policy-making and capacity building in the governance of global public
goods, including global biodiversity, climate, health, security and fair
trade issues.
We also invite papers that focus on teaching global and national
environmental governance and that discuss new approaches, experiences and
programmes in this field.
Deadline: 01 October 2006
Deadline for proposals.
Other Deadline(s): 01 December 2006 Notification of acceptance.
01 April 2007
Full papers due.
This Event is directly associated with the following:
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MEMBERS
Frank Biermann
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Sciences, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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