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The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis

Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance…
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Earth system governance as a crosscutting theme of global change research

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Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet

This science plan elaborates upon the concept of Earth system governance, defined as the interrelated systems of formal and informal rules and actor-networks that are set up to steer societies…

Preparing for a Warmer World: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees

Climate change threatens to cause the largest refugee crisis in human history. Millions of people, largely in Africa and Asia, might be forced to leave their homes to seek refuge in other places or…
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Global governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

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The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development and requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.
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Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

This article provides a focused review of the current literature on global environmental governance. In the first part, we differentiate between three usages of the term “global environmental…
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Earth system governance: a research framework

The Earth System Science Partnership, which unites all major global change research programmes, declared in 2001 an urgent need to develop “strategies for Earth System management”. Yet what such…
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Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

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Managers of Global Change - The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies

An examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. International bureaucracies-highly visible, far-reaching actors of global governance in…
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