Teaching Earth System Governance
Earth system governance as a research object is quickly emerging, and as a consequence, the number of academic programmes on bachelor, master and doctoral level related to earth system governance steadily increases. A number of institutes and universities currently collaborate in a Global Alliance of Earth System Governance Research Centres. The educational programmes these universities offer, include, but are not limited to:
- Ecosystems, Resilience and Governance, University of Stockholm and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
- Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, LUMES, International Master’s Programme, Lund University, Sweden
- Global Environmental Governance, Specialization track in MSc Political Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, LUCID, Research School, Lund University, Sweden
- Sustainability Economics and Management, MSc Programme, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Environmental Governance related Programmes, MA, MSc, and PhD Programmes, Colorado State University, United States of America
- Environment and Development Programmes, MSc, MRes, and MBA Programmes, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
A substantial amount of the workshops and other events of the project are so called capacity-building activities.
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