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News & Upcoming events
News
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16-11-2011The main, objective of the workshop was to demonstrate if and how experimental and modeling techniques can substantially contribute to environmental governance and the design of effective management strategies under the given complexity.
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25-10-2011The workshop was dedicated to the issue of the governance of access to and benefit sharing from genetic resources after the Nagoya Protocol on ABS to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that was adopted in October 2010.
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09-10-2011In June 2010, Working Group 3 of this COST Action organized an author workshop on "Earth System Governance: Accountability, Legitimacy and Democracy", bringing together papers proposed for a special section of Ecological Economics. The articles in this special issue can now be downloaded online.
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09-10-2011The workshop consisted of two plenary talks and four panel sessions. The panels were entitled ‘Making the climate problem, creating the polity?’, ‘Climate, risk and security’, ‘Governing forests as carbon’, ‘Consumers, community and the conduct of everyday life’.
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09-10-2011The workshop addressed the emerging phenomenon of institutional fragmentation in global governance today. Building on this consensus on the need for further research, the organisers envision a special issue in a prestigious academic journal in the field of global environmental governance.
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28-06-2011The call for STSM applications for the next budget year is now closed. Reports of STSMs from past years are now online, as well as an extract from the Management Committee meeting presentation on STSMs in the past budget period.
Upcoming Events
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14-03-2012 - 15-03-2012This conferences focuses on how democratic political systems deal with global environmental change. It adresses the issue areas Expertise, Interplay of Scales and International Comparison. The deadline for proposals for papers is December 15, 2011.
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19-03-2012 - 23-03-2012The aim of the Mediating Climate Change in the City workshop is to provide a focal point for dialogue and collaboration for early career researchers working in the broad area of urban responses to climate change and to develop capacity for advancing scholarship in this field.
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21-03-2012 - 22-03-2012The workshop focuses on Global Standards and Certification Schemes that aim at enhancing social and environmental sustainability in different natural resource sectors.
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11-04-2012 - 12-04-2012This Workshop is a joint event of the UACES Collaborative Research Network and our COST action. It focuses on the influence of cognitive and normative factors in the EU's capacity to meet the challenge of governing sustainability.
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18-04-2012 - 20-04-2012The last COST MC will be held back-to-back with the Lund Conference on Earth System Governance from April 18-20, 2012. The COST MC invites proposals for a final meeting/workshop within the context of the Lund conference. The aim is to showcase the results of our Action to the broader community.
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18-04-2012 - 20-04-2012This conference is part of a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project. This year it focuses on the four main streams: Justice, Legitimacy, Earth System Governance and Institutions.
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02-05-2012 - 03-05-2012This workshop is concerned with the dynamics of global risk governance. Specifically it focuses on the process of regulatory decision-making at the transnational risk-domain – focusing on the challenges of scientific uncertainty and cultural pluralism.
Past Events
Past events organized by this COST Action and its Working Groups can be viewed here.