Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance

Bernd Siebenhüner is Professor of Ecological Economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has also held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Harvard University, and the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. As a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance Project, he contributed to its first Science Plan. In his current research he focuses, among other things, on social learning, international organizations, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinarity.Riyanti Djalante is the Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). She has ten years of scientific research and professional experience in the field of governance, development, disaster risk reduction and climate change management. She is a lead author of the 2018 Earth System Governance Project Science Plan, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the Global Environmental Outlook Geo-6 Report. She is also a Steering Committee member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme.