We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges rooted in unsustainable economic models, production systems, and human activities that transgress planetary boundaries. Mainstream solutions to these challenges, including within research, have often focused on technology development and adoption. However, technocentric approaches to transformation are receiving increasing criticism as modern societies are falling short of their environmental and social goals. There is a growing realization that meaningful and radical transformations will come from redefining how societies interact with the natural world.

In this webinar, researchers from the Pathways community will delve into how they use socio-ecological transition studies to guide and co-create meaningful transformations for better futures.

Katharina Biely will provide us with a theoretical framework explaining how socio-ecological systems studies can be useful to analyze and understand real-world transformations. Then, Silja Zimmerman and Paul Cukierman will show how they use this framework to guide and facilitate radical and meaningful transformations in different contexts, including local Indigenous food systems (Silja Zimmerman) and urban mobility practices in Global North metropolitan areas (Paul Cukierman).


Speakers:

Katharina Biely - VITO Nexus

Paul Cukierman - Université Paris Cité

Silja Zimmerman - Utrecht University

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