The 2013 Conference on Earth System Governance at the United Nations University (UNU) Conference Center at the UNU headquarters, Tokyo, Japan. This conference will be the fourth in a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project. The Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference will be jointly hosted by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), the International Environmental Governance Architecture Research Group and the Tokyo Institute of Technology on behalf of the Earth System Governance Project.

They invite papers on six interrelated clusters of questions:

1. Earth System Governance Architectures in the 21st Century

2. Climate and Energy Governance Architectures

3. The Nexus between Architecture and the other “A’s” in Earth System Governance

4. Political Dynamics in the Interface of Agency and Architecture

5. Methodological Challenges to Complex Architectures and Multiple Agents

6. Special Conference Stream on Nuclear Safety and Post-disaster Governance

Abstracts on one of these six conference themes are welcome from scholars in  the social and natural sciences, as well as practitioners, from the global  South and North. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the
conference website and may not exceed 300 words.