From 13 to 15 July this year, CzechGlobe hosted the European Hub of the Transformations 2023 conference. You can see more about the conference, and the Transformations Community here. The European Hub was intended as a smaller, intensive in-person conference as a way to maximize inclusive participation while minimizing carbon emissions. The main conference was... Continue Reading →
Between 21st and 31st May this year, I was in Costa Rica for the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Second Author Meeting and Summary for Policy Makers first meeting. I already blogged last year about what the assessment is about, how the process works etc., and because of the confidentiality of the report, I cannot write... Continue Reading →
We are very excited to be coordinating a new project called PLUS Change: Planning Land Use Strategies for meeting climate, biodiversity and social goals in a Changing world. The project is funded by Horizon Europe (grant agreement 101081464) and will launch on 1st June and run for 4 years. It involves 23 partners from across... Continue Reading →
The Department of Human Dimensions at CzechGlobe is a partner in the SSH Centre Project. SSH Centre is supporting the visibility and uptake of social science and humanities research in climate, energy and transport policy in Europe. As part of the project, the team is running a series of initiatives to support SSH researchers. The... Continue Reading →
On 25th January, we were proud to be part of the official launch of the SSH Centre (Social Science and Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence) project, led by our colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK.ย The project engages with actors from across research, business, policy and citizens to contribute to accelerate... Continue Reading →
Just before Christmas, Julia Leventon and Lenka Sucha were excited to be in Pretoria, South Africa for the launch of the FoSTA Health project (Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa for One Health). The project is exploring food systems transformations in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, and works closely with academic and practice partners from... Continue Reading →
Recently, a group of us from the department put our different ideas together to write this paper โParticipation as a pathway to pluralism: A critical view over diverse disciplinesโ. The paper was published in a special collection of the journal Advances in Ecological Research, called โPluralism in Ecosystem Governanceโ. This blog post explains why we... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, the IPBES (Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Transformative Change Assessment was launched, and I am excited to be involved as a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 1: Transformative Change and a Sustainable World. This is my first time working on an IPBES assessment, and the past couple of months has... Continue Reading →
We have recently launched a new project to prompt sustainability within the Czech Academy of Sciences. Here, we introduce our project: Mainstreaming Eco-Sustainability through CAS Activities (MESCAS). What is MESCAS? MESCAS is working to mainstream sustainability through our research and operational activities in departments and institutes of the Academy. Over this first year, we are... Continue Reading →
In collaboration with colleagues in Finland and Australia, we have started putting together an Innovative Session Proposal for the Earth Systems Governance Conference, 2022. We have called the session โThe Garden of Budding (Potentially Great) Ideas, and we are currently seeking expressions of interest from those who want to join to present (online or in... Continue Reading →
Would you like to read our highlights of 2021? We have prepared a little newsletter to show you what we have done over the last year. We wish you a wonderful winter holiday, and look forward to seeing you again in 2022. highlights2021_finalDownload
รstav vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AV ฤR โย CzechGlobeย Vรกs srdeฤnฤ zve na sรฉrii panelovรฝch diskuzรญ,ย jejichลพ cรญlem je veลejnosti vysvฤtlit problรฉmyย souvisejรญcรญ sโฏklimatickou zmฤnou a nabรญdnout moลพnรก vรฝchodiska.โฏ Bฤhem tรฉto sรฉrie diskuzรญ zรญskรกteย vฤdeckรฉ informace potลebnรฉ k tomu, abyste porozumฤli reakci naย klimatickou zmฤnu, a to zejmรฉnaย v pลรญpravฤ naย konferenciย COP26, kterรก se bude konat v Glasgow od 1. do 12.ย listopadu.ย Listopadovรกย COP26ย se musรญ zamฤลit... Continue Reading →
Learning from others to share innovations and world views is an important pathway to achieving sustainability. The basic premise is that when people know more about sustainability, they will act to achieve sustainability. Such learning can be about what sustainability is, or the impact of their current actions, or innovations or alternative actions that can... Continue Reading →
Mezivlรกdnรญ panel pro zmฤnu klimatu (IPCC) vydal 9. srpna svoji ล estou hodnotรญcรญ zprรกvu o fyzikรกlnรญch zรกkladech zmฤny klimatu. Zprรกva hodnotรญ souฤasnรฉ vฤdeckรฉ poznรกnรญ v oblasti procesลฏ a dopadลฏ zmฤny klimatu, projekcรญ budoucรญho oteplovรกnรญ a dopadลฏ na klimatickรฉ systรฉmy. Jednรก se o zprรกvu shrnujรญcรญ, proฤ potลebujeme ohlednฤ klimatickรฉ zmฤny urychlenฤ jednat, tedy proฤ potลebujeme tzv. klimatickou... Continue Reading →
On Monday, the IPCCโs 6th assessment report on the physical science basis of climate change will be released. The report assesses the current scientific knowledge on the processes and impacts of climate change, projected future warming, and impacts on climate systems. It is a report on why we need to act on climate change. It... Continue Reading →
When I was doing my PhD, someone at a conference suggested that I check out a book called โTrust in Numbersโ by Theodore M. Porter. I had gone straight from fieldwork to the conference, and was dealing with the reality that the results were not really relevant to what I had proposed talking about when... Continue Reading →
In Autumn 2020, the conservation community was faced with the realization that the world has failed to meet any of the international policy targets set for biodiversity conservation. In 2010, in Nagoya, Japan, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity set 20 goals for protecting biodiversity. Signatory countries (164 of them) committed to adopting and meeting... Continue Reading →
Last week I published an editorial, attached to a special issue in Sustainability Science on the topic of Leverage Points for sustainability transformations (available mainly as open access here). In it, we raise nine questions for working with leverage points and systems change. For those already engaged with systems thinking, and the topic of leverage... Continue Reading →
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