Environmental and Planetary Futures
The Environmental and Planetary Futures Project undertakes rigorous independent social science research that forms the basis for sound evidence-based interventions to disrupt illicit economies and repair the future.
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Vulnerabilities and Resistance
This programme seeks to understand and engage with new and emerging harmscapes in both the age of the Anthropocene and Novacene which result in both human and non-human vulnerabilities.
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Our Research
A particular focus of the research programme is on understanding the new and emerging risk landscapes and their governance that are shaping 21st Century securities.
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Our People
The Global Risk Governance programme team consists of an international and multidisciplinary group of researchers and postgraduate students.
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Outreach
The Environmental Entrepreneurs Support Initiative (EESI) is a community engagement programme aimed at building capacity in young leaders.
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Call for Papers | Illegal Markets and Their Legal Frontiers (SASE 2027, Glasgow)
Global Risk Governance co-lead Annette Hübschle is co-organising a mini-conference at SASE 2027 on how illicit wealth moves into, and is sustained by, legal economies. Abstracts are due 1 November 2026.
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Applications Closed | Master's Fellowship in AI Governance and Harm Mapping
Applications Closed | Mapping AI-Related Harms and Governance Gaps to Inform a Scalable Harm Framework for African Settings | African Hub on AI Safety, Peace and Security (AI4D Programme) | 2026 – 2028
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Crackdowns alone won’t stop online wildlife trafficking – UCT researcher
Republished: A global study co-authored by UCT's Dr Annette Hübschle finds social media fuelling illegal wildlife trade. Crackdowns alone won't work – communities must be central to solutions.
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Follow-the-thing methods to study illicit reptile trafficking
Follow-the-thing methods to study illicit reptile trafficking is the title of the presentation by Dr Annette Hübschle at the 15th Conference of the Herpetological Association of Africa. Held from the 16 –
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About us
The Global Risk Governance programme (GRG) is a research programme, co-directed by Professor Clifford Shearing and Dr Annette Hübschle, within the Department of Public Law, Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town. The programme's research activities are focused on understanding the new, and emerging, harm and risk landscapes that are shaping 21st Century securities.