Researchers affiliated with the Resilience Alliance offered the session “Strengthening the theoretical basis of resilience in practice” at PECSIII to recap their recent multifaceted efforts to address the challenges of applying resilience theories in resilience practice.
In the hustle of academia, it’s easy to forget the value of slowing down. Science often prioritises publishing one article after another, with speed equated to success. But what if we took more time to consider the "how" of our research? Marianne Falardeau and Patricia Balvanera explored this in their plenary, "Reflections on place-based social-ecological scholarship."
Learn more about reflections on UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites as test sites for innovative research and knowledge co-production in this post recapping the fascinating symposium session chaired by Dr. Katja Malmborg and PhD Candidate Jackie Hamilton on day 3 of PECS-3!
In the #PECS3 plenary session focused on relationality, Prof. Berta Martín-López spoke the words in my heart on relational thinking that I did not have the vocabulary for & Dr. Divya Vasudev provided real world experiences of human–elephant interactions & elephant connectivity in India to ground conceptual understandings of the dualisms between loving nature and living with nature. Read more in my blog.
Curious about just transitions in small-scale fisheries? Check out this recent blog post on the “Small-Scale Fisheries Transitions: Resilient Pathways, Governance Innovations and Blue Justice” symposium session hosted by Derek Armitage and colleagues.
What makes you motivated to collaborate to other people? The opportunity to work with different people can be inspiring, and yet challenging, dealing with different values, interests and positions. In this blog, we present a synthesis of the factors that can motivate people to collaborate in resolving common social-ecological problems.
A gentle reminder that together we can make academia a better place for everyone 🌱 insights from the SOCSES's working group on Caring Practices at the PECS-3
To advance transformative research and practices at the intersection of multiple spatial scales, social-ecological systems modelers showcased their ongoing work in their session on Regeneration at multiple scales during the PECS-III conference from the 12th to the 15th of August in Montréal. Seven fascinating talks were presented during this session and navigated the audience across Latine America, Africa and Europe to share different views from actors in the journey of transformative change.
We assembled a diverse group of speakers representing different perspectives, as we debated two broad questions: How can we measure and assess empathy, and how can we build empathy for sustainability?
In just 60 minutes, on a sunny mid-week morning in Montreal, Odirilwe Selomane and Georgina Cundill Kemp challenged a packed room of researchers to re-consider years of academic tradition and explore new partnerships capable of driving change.
