2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance - Governing Accelerated Transitions: Justice, Creativity, and Power in a Transforming World

The 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance will be held in Toronto, Canada and accessible virtually on 21-23 October 2022.

The 2022 Toronto Conference is hosted by University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and Earth System Governance Project. As organizers, we understand that on-site participation is desired by many within the Earth System Governance community, but possibilities for attendance may be limited by the ongoing uncertainty related to travel or public health concerns. Therefore, the 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance will be planned for on-site attendance, with opportunities for virtual access and paper presentations.

The 2022 Toronto Conference stands in a long tradition of global conferences on earth system governance, from Amsterdam (2007 and 2009) to Colorado (2011), Lund (2012), Tokyo (2013), Norwich (2014), Canberra (2015), Nairobi (2016), Lund (2017), Utrecht (2018), Oaxaca (2019), Virtual Forum (2020), Bratislava (2021).

Key Dates:

• Deadline for paper and full session abstracts:1 February 2022
• Deadline for Innovative Sessions:15 February 2022
• Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022
• Full papers due:15 September 2022

Conference Streams

The 2022 Toronto Conference will be organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Earth System Governance Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on specific issues and challenges that emerge as efforts are made to accelerate the social, political, and technological shift towards more fundamentally sustainable and inclusive social-ecological systems, societies and polities:

• Architecture and Agency;
• Democracy and Power;
• Justice and Allocation;
• Anticipation and Imagination;
• Adaptiveness and Reflexivity;
• Accelerating Just and Inclusive Transitions.