Wetlands have faced a complex set of environmental, institutional, and governance challenges, leading to biodiversity loss and intensified conflicts a…

The recognition of the Mar Menor as a subject of rights under Spanish Law 19/2022 marked the first instance in Europe of granting legal personhood to …

IPESG is a new science-based institution to conduct large-scale, systematic assessments of the state of research on earth system governance, bringing together hundreds of scholars from around the worl...

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The mainstreaming of biodiversity concerns across other governance sectors has been a central goal for multilateral agreements and environmental organ…

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This seminar and panel discussion will explore landscape governance as a dynamic arena in which ecological systems, governance structures, and competing societal demands intersect across scales.

Limiting global warming in line with the Paris Agreement requires net-zero emissions by mid-century. To address uncertainties in this transition, prio…

A major challenge for earth system governance is how to embed the interests of future generations in democratic decision-making to achieve sustainable…

This seminar and panel discussion will explore landscape governance as a dynamic arena in which ecological systems, governance structures, and competing societal demands intersect across scales.

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While microbes have primarily been viewed as pathogens, contemporary microbiome science and microbial ecology increasingly emphasize their non-pathoge…

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Governments have a significant influence in shaping the trajectory of the space industry as investors, operators, regulators and customers. This resea…

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are interdependent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet they are often formulated and impleme…

Seed regulatory frameworks paradoxically often attempt to increase farmers' access to quality seed via restrictions on their production and exchange. …

Amid growing climate risks and evolving adaptation-mitigation dynamics, this study analyzes how participatory instruments are integrated into climate …

Satellite infrastructures are indispensable elements of Earth-Space sustainability, including in a North-South context. Using social network analysis,…

Global goals are theorized to catalyze non-state actors' existing strategies and practices to promote sustainable development. This research examines …

Climate change adaptation is increasingly outpaced by accelerating climate risks, resulting in a persistent and widening adaptation gap. Many current …

This study analyses institutional change in the Welsh transport sector, focusing on how the wellbeing economy discourse is being institutionalised in …

This article investigates conditions under which just transition (JT) – a union concept reconciling worker protection with environmental imperatives –…

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries report on their climate actions through engaging in ever more elab…