Editors
Frank Biermann, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Thomas Hickmann, Lund University, Sweden
Carole-Anne Sénit, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Scientific Steering Group
Marianne Beisheim, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto, Canada
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
Pamela Chasek, Manhattan College, United States
Louis J. Kotzé, North-West University, South Africa
Måns Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Southern Voice, Ecuador
Rob Raven, Monash University, Australia
Imme Scholz, German Development Institute, Germany
Michelle Scobie, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
John Thompson, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme, United Kingdom
John Thwaites, Monash University, Australia
Sébastien Treyer, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, France
Detlef van Vuuren, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Lead Authors
Marianne Beisheim is a senior researcher in the Global Issues research division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
Steven Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada
Frank Biermann is Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Thomas Hickmann is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden
Rakhyun E. Kim is Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Louis J. Kotzé is Research Professor of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law at North-West University, South Africa, and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Måns Nilsson is Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Professor of Practice of Environmental Strategies and Policy Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Andrea Ordóñez Llanos is Director of Southern Voice, an open platform for think-tanks and researchers from Global South countries
Chukwumerije Okereke is Professor of Climate Governance and International Development and Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Prajal Pradhan is a senior scientist in Climate Resilience at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Rob Raven is Professor of Sustainability Transitions and Research Director at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University, Australia
Carole-Anne Sénit is Assistant Professor of Inclusive Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Marjanneke J. Vijge is Assistant Professor of Sustainability Governance in the Developing World at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Detlef van Vuuren is a senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Professor of Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands (His contribution was funded by the ERC project PICASSO, ERC-CG 819566).
Birka Wicke is Professor of Land Use, Climate and Sustainability at Radboud University, The Netherlands
Contributing Authors
Lorena Alcázar is a senior researcher in Economics at the Group for the Analysis of Development, Peru
Ivonne Lobos Alva is lead researcher on the Sustainable Development Goals at the Stockholm Environment Institute Latin America in Bogotá, Colombia
Dan Banik is Professor of Political Science and Director of The Oslo SDG Initiative at the University of Oslo, Norway
Mairon Bastos Lima is a researcher in Governance of Sustainable Tropical Land Use, Sustainable Agri-food Systems and Supply-chain Sustainability at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Magdalena Bexell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden
Maya Bogers is a PhD candidate in Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Basil Bornemann is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Brianna Botchwey is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Burdon is Associate Professor of Law at the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide, Australia
Jecel Censoro is a post-doctoral researcher in Politics and International Development at Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Pamela Chasek is Professor of Political Science and chair of the Political Science Department at Manhattan College, United States
Marius Christen is a post-doctoral researcher in Sustainability Governance at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Liliana Díaz is Scientific Coordinator at the Institute in Environment, Development and Society of Université Laval, Canada
Melanie van Driel is a PhD candidate in Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Louise du Toit is a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Rongedzayi Fambasayi is a PhD candidate with the South African Research Chair on Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa
Karin Fernando is a senior researcher at the Centre for Global Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka
Felicitas Fritzsche is a PhD candidate in Global Environmental Politics and Sustainable Development at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden
Lisa-Maria Glass is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Science at the Institute of Sustainability Governance at Leuphana University, Germany
Leonie Grob is a former graduate student of Sustainable Development at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ibrahima Hathie is Deputy Director of Feed the Future Policy Systems Services, Senegal
Kristina Jönsson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden
Agni Kalfagianni is Associate Professor of Transnational Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Prakash Kashwan is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and co-director of the research programme on Economic and Social Rights at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, United States
Annica Kronsell is Professor of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Julia Leininger is a political scientist and heads the research programme “Transformation of Political (Dis-)order” at the German Development Institute, Germany
Hanna Leonardsson is a PhD candidate in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Diana Liverman is a Regents Professor in the School of Geography, Development, University of Arizona, United States
Lorenzo di Lucia is a researcher on the interactions between deep decarbonization of industry and the Sustainable Development Goals at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and on bio-based supply chains at Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Francesco S. Montesano is a PhD candidate in Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Navam Niles is associate consultant for Sustainable Development at the Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka, and visiting lecturer of Political Science at the Royal Institute of Colombo, Sri Lanka, an affiliate centre for University of London international programmes in Sri Lanka
Salla Rantala is a senior researcher in Environmental Governance and development manager at the Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Imme Scholz is a sociologist and deputy director of the German Development Institute, Germany
Michelle Scobie is a researcher in International Relations at the Institute of International Relations and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Karen M. Siegel is a researcher in Political Science and head of the research group Transformation and Sustainability Governance in South American Bioeconomies at the University of Münster, Germany
Heleen van Soest is a researcher in International Climate Policy at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands
Yixian Sun is Assistant Professor in International Development at the University of Bath, United Kingdom
John Thompson is a Senior Fellow in the Rural Futures Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies and Deputy Director of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom
John Thwaites is chair and Professor of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University, Australia, chair of ClimateWorks Australia, chair of Melbourne Water, and co-chair of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Sébastien Treyer is executive director of IDDRI, the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, France
Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla is an associate researcher in Environmental Law at the Tarragona Center for Environmental Law Studies at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain and extraordinary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law at North-West University, South Africa
Anne Warchold is a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Sabine Weiland is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the ESPOL-LAB Research Centre for European and International Politics at Lille Catholic University, France
Silke Weinlich is a senior researcher in the programme on Inter- and Transnational Cooperation at the German Development Institute, Germany
Abbie Yunita is a PhD candidate in Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Caroline Zimm is a researcher in the Transformative and Social Solutions Research Group and the Equity and Justice Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
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