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GOVERNANCE MAPS

Explore two interactive maps of governance beyond Earth. Together they reveal who is establishing the first norms, behaviours, and rules for the Moon and near-Earth space, and where our shared Earth-space systems remain ungoverned

Earth-Space Politics Map

This interactive map charts the institutional logics now shaping governance across our Earth-Space systems. The co-existing state, market, technocratic, and global community approaches that determine how activity beyond Earth is claimed, coordinated, and constrained. It reveals where these logics reinforce one another, where they compete, and where the emerging domain is left ungoverned.

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Lunar Governance Map

This interactive map traces how stewardship is being staked out across the Moon, currently according to site activities or designations on the lunar surface, but eventually including the Moon as a whole, its orbit, and unfolding socioecological impacts. From the peaks of eternal light to the permanently shadowed craters of the south pole to the far side's radio-quiet zone, the map shows which actors are drawing the first lines of scientific, cultural, and administrative responsibility over a Moon that no one owns, and where those claims overlap, compete, or remain absent.

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union´s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement no. 101117483).

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©2026 PLANETSTEWARDS.

Contact




Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
Vening Meinesz Building A, Princetonlaan 8a,
3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr. Xiao-Shan Yap
Email: info@planetstewards.eu

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