Skip to content

T2S

Transformations to sustainability
  • About
    • Funders
  • Projects
  • Outputs
  • People
  • Events
  • News
    • T2S programme final meeting 2022
    • 2020 Midterm Workshop
  • Contact

Fair Transitions and the Politics of Land: Institutions and imaginaries for inclusive futures

28-29-30 June, Utrecht, the Netherlands (with limited hybrid possibilities)

The joint IOS-Fair Transitions-LANDac International Conference takes place at the crossroads of the fair transitions and land governance debates in the context of climate change. The conference is structured around the joint challenge of finding ways to make transitions fair and inclusive, for human and non-human life.

This conference aims to bring together the professional fields associated with fair transitions and land governance in the context of climate change. Over the past 12 years, the LANDac International Annual Conference has offered a podium for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on land governance for equitable and sustainable development, representing a wide range of backgrounds and concerns. The Institutions for Open Societies (IOS) Fair Transitions Platform seeks to engage scholars from the Humanities, Geosciences, Law, and Governance, as well as all those engaged in issues of sustainability.

A call for sessions is now open – submit by 15 February 2023.

Find out more on the conference website.

 

 

This webinar is part of the Tipping Points Discussion Series organized by AIMES, the Earth Commission, the WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, and partners. The series aims to advance knowledge of tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system – both in natural and social systems. Our two outstanding speakers are:

  • David Armstrong McKay (University of Exeter): Climate tipping points: how close are they, and what can we do about them?
  • Lloyd Pinnell (Systemiq): Socio-economic tipping points to drive accelerated adoption of climate solutions – what we know and what we don’t know

The talks will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ruth Townend (Chatham House).

All information and the link to register are available here: https://tipping-points-positive-tipping.confetti.events

A Call for Papers for the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance is now available. The Conference will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 24-26 October 2023 and will also be accessible virtually for presentations and attendance. The theme of the 2023 Radboud Conference is Bridging Sciences and Societies for Sustainability Transformations.

Download the full call for papers.

The 2023 Radboud Conference will be organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Earth System Governance Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on inter- and transdisciplinary research. Organizers especially welcome panels bringing together researchers from different natural and social science disciplines, humanities, and/or practitioners (e.g. policy makers, civil society groups, business actors, citizen groups) focused on a specific sustainability challenge, such as water, energy, food, forests, oceans, biodiversity, climate change, pollution.

The conference is hosted by Radboud University’s Centre for Sustainability Challenges together with the Earth System Governance Project.

Please read more about the conference via the website. If you have further questions, email the Organizing Team via rc2023@earthsystemgovernance.org.

Due to shifting societal values, we are seeing the sociocultural context of wildlife conservation changing. Wildlife is increasingly seen as part of one’s social network and worthy of care and compassion as opposed to being seen as something that should be used and managed to benefit humans. This leads to increasing challenges with traditional wildlife management techniques.

This year’s conference theme is “Managing Wildlife in an Era of Mutualism.” With this in mind, among other topics, Pathways 2023 will be exploring wildlife viewing, wildlife interactions, building meaningful relationships with underserved communities, and human-wildlife conflict through the lens of mutualism.

In pursuit of Pathways’ mission of increasing the professionalism and effectiveness in the human dimensions of wildlife management field, we continue to address the most pressing issues facing conservation efforts today.

Visit the conference website for our topics of interest, which align with our conference theme and other important aspects of the human dimensions of wildlife field.

Registration is now open for the Pathways 2023 conference, which will be held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado on 31 May – 3 June, 2023, and is cohosted by Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, and Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech.

Register now.

If you need financial assistance, apply for a scholarship. View scholarship information here.

Climate change policies are important tools in supporting the legislative and executive branches in promoting conditions for assertive  action to advances the climate agenda. Sound policies are essential for the implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. But even though climate change policies are a vital component for the implementation of climate action, including the implementation of SDG13, there is a perceived need to have in-depth discussions on how best they may designed, and implemented.

Against this background, the UK Consortium for Sustainability Research (UK-CSR), the Ecology and Environment Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the International Climate Change Information and Research Programme, in cooperation with various universities and research organizations, are organizing the “World Symposium on Climate Change Policies: Science and Technology in Support of Policy-Making in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation”.

The event will be held in Manchester, UK on 19th-20th September 2023.

Aims of the event

The main aim of the Symposium is to provide a platform for discussions on the role of science and technology in support of policy-making on climate change. In addition, the Symposium  aims to identify, document and disseminate ideas, experiences and visions from scientists, decision-makers, educators,  members of non-governmental organizations, and citizens, on how science and technology may contribute towards supporting the design and implementation of climate change policies, which is important in pursuing sustainable future scenarios.

The outcome of the discussions will be summarised and fed in the preparations for COP 28, to be held in Dubai on 30th November to 12th December 2023.

Structure

The Symposium will gather 100 or so delegates, who specialise on aspects of policy-making and/or policy implementation on climate change. It will be structured around plenary presentations and parallel sessions. A set of workshops will also be offered as part of the event.

Documentation of the Symposium

As an output and long-term documentation of the event, selected papers will be published in the book Climate Change Policies: Science and Technology in Support of Policy-Making in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation”, which will follow on the success of the Handbook of Climate Change Resilience and Handbook of Climate Change Management which, with 6 volumes and over 500 authors, is the largest non-publicly funded editorial project on climate change ever undertaken.

The book will be published as part of the Climate Change Management Series, which is the leading peer-reviewed book series on matters related to climate change. Over 3,000 authors from across all geographical regions have contributed to the series to date. The peer-reviewed nature of the series, which is fully indexed, means that publications have counted over the years for promotion and tenure purposes.

Abstracts now welcome

A call for abstracts is open until 30th March 2023.

Abstracts should consist of a 200 words outline of the paper, along with the names and full contact details of the  authors. Abstracts should be sent to the coordinating team at: info@iccip.net.

Full papers are due by 30th June 2023. Further details will be discussed with the authors whose abstracts have been accepted.

Co-produced research is increasingly regarded as more effective than traditional scientific approaches for engaging with the complexity of current sustainability challenges and contributing to transformative change. However, researchers wanting to engage in meaningful co-productive practices are routinely faced with fundamental questions such as “what are defining principles of co-production?”, “what are the implications in terms of aims, terminologies, and practices?”, and “how to deal with tensions emerging from confronting diverse, and sometimes conflicting, knowledge systems and agendas?”. With the expertise and experience of speakers and participants, this webinar will seek to critically address these questions and offer practical guidance on how to engage in meaningful processes of knowledge co-production for developing transformative pathways to sustainability.

Speakers:

Josie Chambers (Utrecht University)
Tobias Haller (University of Bern)
Marja Spierenburg (Leiden University)

Tuesday 20 December, 10:00 – 12:00 CET/09:00 – 11:00 UTC, Online
Register here

17 November 2022
13:00 – 14:30 UTC

Join this moderated panel discussion organized by the Transformations to Sustainability Programme of the Belmont Forum, NORFACE and International Science Council.

In the final days of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where crucial decisions need to be made to help humanity pivot away from destructive trajectories and leap towards effective, equitable solutions that help minimize the worst effects of climate change, calls for societal transformations are louder than ever.

This panel discussion will distill key insights gained over nearly a decade of research on societal transformations towards sustainability to address the all-important ‘how’ question: how to bring the key lessons from research into policy and practice to foster transformative action at all levels of society and around the world.

Panellists

  • Adrian Ely, University of Sussex
  • Eleanor Fisher, Nordic Africa Institute
  • Mariana Walter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Heide Hackmann, Future Africa, University of Pretoria
  • Leo Saldana, Environment Support Group, India

Moderator

  • Susanne Moser, Senior Advisor to the Transformations to Sustainability Programme

How to join

This webinar will take place via zoom on 17 November 2022 at 13:00 – 14:30 UTC (14:00 – 15:30 CET). Join the webinar.

 


Image by UNCCC/Kiara Worth via Flickr.

The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) is organizing an online round-table meeting highlighting the links between co-creating knowledge, societal transformations and sustainability on Wednesday, 12 October at 09:00 – 10:00 UTC/15:00 – 16:00 IST.

In the field of climate change adaptation and sustainability, co-creating knowledge implies using complementary knowledge systems that promote transformation pathways. In case of complex and intractable policy problems, cocreated policy solutions which are bottom-up are more likely to generate usable actions and outcomes (Coggan et al.). Therefore, co-creating knowledge in the fields of climate change, environment and development policy is key to achieving enduring outcomes. The co-created transformative knowledge and action can help in addressing complex social challenges and opportunities before, after, and during a disaster in a changing climate.

The objectives of the roundtable are:

  • To better understand the concepts of co-creation and transformative knowledge.
  • To illustrate how the concepts of co-creation and transformative knowledge unfold in public projects and policies in the marginal environments.
  • To find out the nature and extent of benefits of cocreation and transformation to people and ecosystems.
  • To indicate agenda for further research and action on co-creation and transformative knowledge.

In the field of climate change adaptation and sustainability, co-creating knowledge implies using complementary knowledge systems that promote transformation pathways.

Find out more and register here.

Download the flyer.

On 27 September 2022, the TAPESTRY project will present its work on visual methods at a virtual event. The panel is hosted by the South Asia Resilience Hub, as part of a programme of events in the lead up to the COP27 climate conference.

The session is entitled ‘Transformative resilience through visual action research techniques with vulnerable communities in Bengal delta’.

The speakers are Shibaji Bose, independent consultant working with participatory visual research methods; Dr. Upasona Ghosh; Adiba Bintey Kamal, Programme Coordinator at ICCAD; Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of ICCCAD; Mihir R. Bhatt, AIDMI.

The research represents the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh, as well as transboundary perspectives on the scope and limitations of transformative resistance to climate change. Two visual action research approaches, photo voice, and digital diary, were used with various community groups to explore how communities are building resilience to climate change impacts in their daily lives and how information about resilience may be translated into local-level activities.

To attend this event, register online.




 

The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) has been shaping the debate on alternative development pathways by way of putting the commons center stage. In times of profound crises, we have seen states being caught up in emergency mode. This unfolds, among others, in a tendency to respond within national borders, and it has brought the importance of building genuine resilience that leaves no one behind.

In all its diversity, the African continent is particularly exposed to shocks, and the risk of losing decades of development accomplishments is conspicuous. Therefore, in the context of the pandemic, building resilience for a broad range of society has become ever more pertinent, but the framework conditions to do so remain under-discussed. The global IASC conference will open up a space to mobilize this very debate. Taking place at the University of Nairobi, and co-organized with Centre for Integrated Training and Research in ASAL Development CETRAD, the University of Bern (Institute of Social Anthropology ISA, Centre for Development and Environment CDE), and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland) and the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS), the discourse on commons and commoning will be prominently staged so as to broadly explore the contributions of the concept of the commons to build resilience in and beyond crises.

The conference provides a much-needed link to future-oriented research and practice perspective with a look back, since many legal and structural legacies predetermine possible development pathways. This reflection shall help to position the commons debate in the context of the Agenda 2030 and contribute to making the transformation towards the SDGs a more commons-oriented and participatory endeavor.

Important dates:

15 July 2022 – Call for panels opens
3 October 2022 – Panel submission deadline
7 November 2022 – Call for papers opens
12 December 2022 – Papers submission deadline
16 Januaru 2023 – Decision on acceptance of papers
28 February 2023 – Early bird registration opens
30 April 2023 – Early bird registration closes

Find out more.

Posts navigation

Older posts
  • T2S Coordination Office

    Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
    Email: T2S@nwo.nl
    Postal address: PO Box 93461
    NL-2509 AL The Hague
    The Netherlands

  • Visiting address

    Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 300
    NL-2593 CE  The Hague
    The Netherlands

  • Grant Agreement

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730211.
  • Links

    • www.belmontforum.org
    • www.norface.net