Earth System Governance Project: Upcoming Webinar & Call for Papers - 2021 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance

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Thungren, G.O. (Gustav)

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Dear colleagues,

We welcome you to engage with the Earth System Governance community through an upcoming webinar and to submit your work and ideas for the 2021 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance:

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‘Earth System Law as a legal paradigm for the Anthropocene’ – ESG Speaker Series

Zoom Webinar, 4th February, 16.00-17:30 (UTC+1)  - register here

In this first virtual ESG Speaker Series, titled ‘Earth System Law as a legal paradigm for the Anthropocene’, we explore how the deepening socio-ecological crisis of the Anthropocene can be addressed from a legal perspective.

The notion of the Anthropocene has gained prominence in the last decade, highlighting the fundamental impact of humans on the planet and trajectories of an intensifying socio-ecological crisis. In this Webinar, Prof. Louis Kotzé and Dr. Rakhyun E. Kim argue that International Environmental Law has become unsuitable for governing the Anthropocene: analytically it is unable to respond to complex earth system governance challenges; it does not offer appropriate norms to prevent earth system decay; and it is not ambitious enough to achieve necessary radical transformations. 

These deficiencies of International Environmental Law has led scholars of the Earth System Governance to propose an alternative future pathway for law in the Anthropocene: Earth System Law.

This session will first introduce the concept of Earth System Law by Prof. Louis Kotzé and Dr. Rakhyun E. Kim. Thereafter, an invited critique of the proposed paradigm is offered according to its analytical, normative and transformative dimensions, by Research Fellows Laura Mai, Dr. Marie Petersmann and Emily Webster. Lastly, the audience are invited for discussion and question-and-answer before concluding the 90 minute session.

Read more about the event and register here

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Call for Papers, Panels & Innovative Sessions – 2021 Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance – Deadline 15 Feb

On 7-9 September, the Earth System Governance Project will host the 2021 Bratislava Conference, which is planned as a hybrid conference (on-site in Bratislava, if possible, and fully accessible virtually). The Call for Papers is currently open, under the theme ‘Earth System Governance in Turbulent times, prospect for political and behavioral responses’.

Please see the following deadlines for submissions:

- Paper submissions and full panel proposals, second intake: 15 February 2021

- Innovative Session proposals: 1 March 2021

- Taskforce & Meeting Day session proposals: 1 March 2021

If you are interested in submitting a paper or a session, you can find more information about the Call for Papers on the website, or you can email the Conference Team directly via the following email: bc2...@earthsystemgovernance.org

Please note that the Conference Team is actively monitoring the ongoing Covid-19 developments.

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Best regards,

Gustav Thungren
Managing Director | Earth System Governance Project | International Project Office | Utrecht University |
Faculty of Geosciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584CB Utrecht, The Netherlands | P.O. Box 80115, 3508TC Utrecht |
+31 (0)6 211 541 83 |
www.earthsystemgovernance.org | g.thu...@uu.nl |@ESG_Project

 

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