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2020 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance MENU 2020 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance Call for Papers 2020 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance “EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE IN TURBULENT TIMES: PROSPECTS FOR POLITICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES” Bratislava, Slovak University of Technology, September 15-17, 2020 We are delighted to invite you to the 2020 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance, which will be held in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic. The conference is hosted by SLOVAKGLOBe, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava and the CETIP together with the Earth System Governance Project. The 2020 Bratislava Conference stands in a long tradition of global conferences on earth system governance, from Amsterdam (2007) and 2009) to Colorado (2011), Lund (2012), Tokyo (2013), Norwich (2014), Canberra (2015), Nairobi (2016), Utrecht (2018) and Oaxaca (2019). Key Dates: Deadline for paper abstracts: 15 December 2019 Deadline for innovative sessions: to be announced soon Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2020 Full papers due: 1 September 2020 Conference Streams The 2020 Bratislava Conference will be organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Earth System Governance Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on specific issues and challenges concerning the current moment of crisis, contestation, and calls for action across the globe. Abstracts can thus be submitted to one of the following six conference streams: Architecture and Agency. We invite papers that address institutional frameworks and actors implicated in earth system governance and how these institutions and actors resist or respond to change and evolve over time. Core questions include: How are environmental issues influenced by complex global networks across sectors, scales and decision-making arenas? What are the implications for earth system governance of growing diversities and power disparities among agents? What forms of architecture and agency are most effective in earth system governance across scales? Which changes and new developments of global governance architecture are needed to address the challenges posed by contemporary global environmental change? Democracy and Power. We invite papers that address how old and new conceptions of democracy and power can make sense of, and craft responses to, trends in collective problem-solving in earth system governance in particular in respect to transition to new democracies in Europe and globally. Core questions include: What is the nature of the relationship between democracy and sustainability in earth system governance? Does the Anthropocene exacerbate existing power inequalities or create new opportunities for the legitimate exercise of power? How do power asymmetries in earth system governance affect the management of natural resources? Can community regimes and collective actions such as commons foster transformations towards sustainable and low carbon economy across scales? Justice and Allocation. We invite papers that normatively or empirically address the justice and allocation of resources, rights, and access in earth system governance. Core questions include: which new demands for justice and allocation are emerging in the context of profound transformations of the earth system? What types of steering have been effective towards implementing various conceptions of justice and allocation? Who bears the costs and benefits of transformations towards sustainability and how are rights and livelihoods affected? Anticipation and Imagination. We invite papers that address how to govern proliferating anticipation processes that seek to imagine and govern future sustainability challenges, as well as how anticipation and imagination themselves become sites of politics. Core questions include: How do processes of anticipation and imagination interact with each other in shaping efforts to steer societies towards more sustainable futures? What kinds of institutions and practices underpin processes of anticipation and imagination? To what extent are ongoing processes of anticipation legitimate and inclusive, and what are their geopolitical implications? Which are the most relevant differences in the processes/capacities of anticipation and imagination among different actors and groups? Adaptiveness and Reflexivity. We invite papers that address how societies can navigate change towards global sustainability in adaptive and reflexive ways, such as supporting the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and adapting to climate change over both the short and long-term. Core questions include: How can adaptiveness and reflexivity as qualities of earth system governance be assessed and compared? What kind of governance attributes (e.g. polycentricity or centralization, market or hybrid, flexibility or stability) are best suited to cultivating adaptiveness and reflexivity? Which factors enhance or hinder adaptiveness and reflexivity in diverse cultural and economic contexts? Do socio-environmental conflicts and social movements favor or halt adaptiveness and reflexivity? Governance intervention and social actions for behavioral change to sustainability. We invite papers that address how governance intervention and purposeful change in societal behavior may be realized in order to navigate towards improved global sustainability. This is especially timely in light of multiple colliding ecological, social, and political crises, and growing calls for transformative change in many spheres of human activity. Core questions include: What types of governance intervention and societal action are needed to trigger behavioral change across multiple levels (local to global), and what are the opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs involved? Through which mechanisms and pathways, and under which conditions, are such interventions and actions realized? What are the consequences of different forms of governance intervention and social action (e.g. for society, politics, and the environment), and what, therefore, are the implications for enhancing global sustainability in diverse cultural and economic contexts? Types of Proposals Individual papers We invite submissions of abstracts of up to 400 words that address either the main conference theme; one or more of the six conference streams; or any other topic that is relevant to the Earth System Governance Project. All abstracts will be anonymized and evaluated in double-blind peer review. Please submit your abstracts through the conference website: Submit your abstract here Full panels We also invite panel proposals that address the main conference theme, one or more of the six conference streams, or any other topic relevant to the Earth System Governance Project. Panel proposals must include a description of the panel (300 words or less), 4-5 abstracts (each up to 400 words), as well as the name of a chair and a discussant. Please note that all paper abstracts will be evaluated individually in the general double-blind peer review of the conference, with the possible outcome that only some papers submitted for a panel might be accepted. Only panels with three or more accepted papers will be included in the programme. If fewer than three papers for the panel are accepted, we will advise the panel proposer with the option that accepted papers can be integrated into other panels. The abstracts needs to be submitted via the website but the panel proposal needs to be emailed to the International Project Office: [email protected]. Send your panel proposal Before making a panel submission, panel organisers should contact the International Project Office for further details about the submission process. Innovative sessions We also welcome proposals for non-traditional sessions, such as roundtables (which may include policy-makers, academics, or representatives of social movements and non-governmental organizations), World Cafes, Pecha Kucha presentations, Hyde Park Corner Debates, policy games, book launches, and book seminars (that may discuss recently published academic works in the field). These sessions may also be innovative in terms of stimulating discussion and debate on topics not typically considered by earth system governance scholars, but which the proposers demonstrate are likely to be highly relevant to core issues within the community. All non-traditional sessions can be proposed directly to the conference organizers by e-mail: [email protected]. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and should include: a brief description of the session’s aims and format and a list of participants (including a chair/moderator). Proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizers. Send your innovative session proposal The Taskforce and Meeting Day on 18 September On Friday, 18 September, extensive meeting space will be provided for back-to-back events of our Project’s Taskforces and Affiliated Projects, as well as early-career workshops, author writing retreats, planning sessions, workshops on teachings and methods, and similar events. Suggestions for such meetings can be submitted to [email protected] by 1 March 2020. We will ensure wide dissemination of the events through our network, and assist with formal registration. All interested conference participants can select the event they plan to participate in through the conference registration form. Autumn School on Earth System Governance We plan to organize an autumn school on Earth System Governance directly prior to the conference. More information will be announced soon on the conference website. Field Trips The conference will offer field trips. More information will be announced soon on the conference website. Additional Information The organizers are undertaking all efforts to secure travel support for participants who are based at institutions in developing countries and for early-career researchers. There is no specific application process for travel grants. To the extent that travel funds become available, they will be disbursed on merit basis according to the relative ranking of the abstract. Acceptance of a paper for presentation does not guarantee travel support. More information on the Earth System Governance Project can be found at www.earthsystemgovernance.org Conference Chair Tatiana Kluvánková, SLOVAKGLOBe Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, CETIP Hosts SLOVAKGLOBe Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava CETIP Earth System Governance Project Organizing Committee Stanislava Brnkalakova, SLOVAKGLOBe Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, CETIP Julius Golej, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, CETIP Gustav Thungren, Executive Director, Earth System Governance Project, Utrecht University Programme Committee Sarah Burch, University of Waterloo, Canada Lorraine Elliott, Australian National University, Australia Aarti Gupta, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, University of Brasilia, Brazil Atsushi Ishii, Tohoku University, Japan Agni Kalfagianni, Utrecht University, The Netherlands James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Canada David Nguatha Mungai, University of Nairobi, Kenya James Patterson, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Åsa Persson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden Jonathan Pickering, University of Canberra, Australia Daniela Špirkova, Slovak University of Technology STU, Slovak Republic The Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance Project will serve as the Programme Committee for the 2020 Conference Contact E-Mail: [email protected] / [email protected] / Twitter: #ESG2020 EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OFFICE Email: [email protected] Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands www.earthsystemgovernance.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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