Conference Agenda

This semi-plenary session is an essential component of the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance. The panel is organized by the conference’s institutional co-host Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University. The panel will be an interdisciplinary forum to delve into the interlinkages between climate, nature and human health to explore integrated governance that is effective and equitable. The concept of planetary health recognizes the inextricable interdependency between human, animal, and environmental health and the Earth’s natural systems. In the face of compounding global challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and emerging infectious diseases, it is imperative to develop methodologies to measure and respond to cascading risks in the backdrop of context-specific complex interdependencies between the environment, human health, and social systems. Presentations will showcase the latest perspectives on key themes linking climate, nature, and human health, and ecosystem services, including assessment of cascading risks, nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptation, disaster preparedness, whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches, systems approach and policy advice.

The panel will be a forum for leading experts, scholars, and practitioners for knowledge-sharing, policy innovation, and collaboration across a range of topics on planetary health interlinkages encompassing assessment of risks and impacts of global crises, health and aging, impacts of climate and biodiversity crises, and global health. The panel will be a transdisciplinary exchange exploring governance and policy innovation, as well as critical perspectives on equity and justice.

Speakers:

• Sharon Friel, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity, Director of Planetary Health Equity Hothouse and Menzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
• James Orbinski, Professor and Director of Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University
• Ebru Canan Sokullu, Professor and Director of CIFAL Istanbul, Bahcesehir University
• Kathryn Bowen, Professor Environment, Climate & Global Health, Deputy Director of Melb Climate Futures, University of Melbourne.
• Idil Boran, Professor Applied Environmental Governance and Public Policy, Department of Philosophy; Faculty Fellow at Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; Associate Director of CIFAL York, York University

Chair:

Ina Lehmann, Assistant Professor Governance of Global Biodiversity, Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Free University Amsterdam