Climate
Combatting climate change requires more than technical solutions and asks for transformative social and political actions too. Yet, all too often, climate policy proves slow and unjust. This makes questions of equity and effectiveness central to our aims studying architectures, networks, and technologies of present and future climate governance.
Our climate research examines the governance of mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage at local, regional, and global levels (e.g. UNFCCC transparency arrangements), as well as atmospheric-level governance (e.g. solar geoengineering). We examine the implications of climate change and climate governance for both terrestrial and marine socio-environmental contexts; for instance, what climate change and its governance means in terms of land use, marine life, human mobility and relocation. We also assess the equity and effectiveness of varied, continually multiplying, climate governance arrangements, including changing relations between states and markets, and public, private, and hybrid sources of authority, and with scrutinizing the potentially novel challenges entailed in the anticipatory governance of pluralistic climate futures.
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Research themes
Circularity
We focus on how circular social practices emerge and scale up, and their socio- and environmental implications.
Biodiversity
We study how diverse global approaches to halt biodiversity loss, shape the governance of human–nature relation.
Food
We examine how local to global food systems and their governance innovations address sustainability challenges across production, consumption and value chains.
Climate
We study how fair and effective climate governance can address mitigation, adaptation, and future climate risks across scales and sectors.
Energy
Our research asks how transitions towards sustainable energy can be enabled locally and internationally.