In 2009, the UN-sponsored global change research networks have set up a long-term research programme in earth system governance, the Earth System Governance Project. The Earth System Governance Project currently consists of a network of around 370 active and about 2,300 indirectly involved scholars from all continents. Since 2015 it is part of the overarching international research platform Future Earth. The International Project Office is hosted at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Research centres on ‘Earth System Governance’ have been set up or designated at the University of Ghana; the University of Brasília; Utrecht University; the German Development Institute; the CETIP Network; VU University Amsterdam; the University of Amsterdam; the Australian National University; Chiang Mai University; Colorado State University; Lund University; the University of East Anglia; the University of Oldenburg; the Stockholm Resilience Centre; the University of Toronto; the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Yale University. In addition, strong networks on earth system governance research exist in China, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. Conceptual framework The Earth System Governance Project organizes its research according to a conceptual framework guided by five sets of research lenses according to their 2018 Science and Implementation Plan: Architecture and agency Democracy and power Justice and allocation Anticipation and imagination Adaptiveness and reflexivity These centre around four contextual conditions: Transformations Inequality Anthropocene Diversity Related projects Earth System Science Partnership International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme International Human Dimensions Programme World Climate Research Programme DIVERSITAS, an international programme for biodiversity research Global Carbon Project Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Global Land Project Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC) Global Water System Project (GWSP) See also Earth System Governance Project Environmental governance Global governance Social science Sustainability governance Earth System Analysis/ Earth System Science Environmental Science Global Change Global environmental governance Multi-level governance Climate Governance Environmental Policy Ecological economics Ecological modernization Sustainability science Sustainable Development Planetary Boundaries The Anthropocene References Biermann, Frank and Kim, Rakhyun E. (Eds). 2020. Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation. Cambridge University Press. External links Earth System Governance Project Global Governance Project International Human Dimensions Programme , (IHDP) Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies Environmental policy Environmental social science