Cities provide a locus for sustainability. We live on an increasingly urban planet. Roughly three-quarters of Europeโs population lives in cities today, including the Czech republic. Scientists predict that this will be the case for the rest of the world by the second half of this century. People are moving into cities and thus cities... 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 →
Vฤda o udrลพitelnosti nekonฤรญ publikovรกnรญm odbornรฝch ฤlรกnkลฏ, ale snaลพรญ se o dosaลพenรญ udrลพitelnรฉ kvality ลพivota pro ฤlovฤka i udrลพitelnรฝch podmรญnek pro pลรญrodu. Tฤchto cรญlลฏ vลกak nemลฏลพe dosรกhnout sama โ je kโฏnim zapotลebรญ mรญstnรญch partnerลฏ, organizacรญ i jednotlivcลฏ, kteลรญ se na vรฝzkumu podรญlรญ, spoluvytvรกลejรญ jeho vรฝsledky a pลivรกdฤjรญ je do praxe vโฏrรกmci...
Cities and large urban areas are major drivers of global environmental change that has negative impacts on human well-being. Consequently, urban areas are one of the most vulnerable to these impacts since they centre a large share of the population and economy. At the same time, urban areas are an important player in shaping policy... Continue Reading →
Climate crisis is happening here and nowโฆ and we must act! But do we know the whats, wheres, whens, and hows? We are witnessing an escalating climate crisis worldwide. Urban areas, accommodating a large portion of the worldโs population, experience growing concerns from climate-related impacts in relatively compact space. Increasing risks of heatwaves due to... 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 →
Uvaลพovat o budoucnosti je pro nรกs nejen zajรญmavรฉ, ale i dลฏleลพitรฉ. Mลฏลพe pro nรกs znamenat mnohรฉ: snรญt, pลemรฝลกlet o pลรกnรญch do budoucna, ujasลovat si myลกlenky, nebo pลipravovat plรกny pro rลฏznรฉ pลรญpady a situace. Jako jednotlivci pro โpลรญbฤhyโ, kterรฉ si pลedstavujeme ohlednฤ budoucnosti, vฤtลกinou nepouลพรญvรกme konkrรฉtnรญ vรฝraz. Uvaลพujeme-li vลกak o moลพnรฉ budoucnosti celรฝch spoleฤenstvรญ nebo spoleฤnostรญ,... Continue Reading →
Thinking about the future is not only interesting, but also important. We think about the future not only to imagine and dream, but also to organize our thoughts and wishes, and to plan ahead for different possibilities and options. In our individual lives, we may not use a specific term for the stories we envision... Continue Reading →
How can international development cooperation projects be strengthened through research of social-ecological linkages? And where does participatory research stand in such a relation? These and many other questions will be addressed by the interdisciplinary research project Coop4Wellbeing, which is being carried out by the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe),... Continue Reading →
Jak mลฏลพe vรฝzkum vazeb mezi pลรญrodou a spoleฤnostรญ pลispฤt k posilovรกnรญ projektลฏ zahraniฤnรญ rozvojovรฉ spoluprรกce? A jakou roli v tomto propojenรญ hraje participativnรญ vรฝzkum? Odpovฤdi na tyto (a dalลกรญ) otรกzky bude hledat interdisciplinรกrnรญ vรฝzkumnรฝ projekt podpoลenรฝ Technologickou agenturou ฤR, na kterรฉm se podรญlรญ Oddฤlenรญ spoleฤenskรฉho rozmฤru globรกlnรญ zmฤny รstavu vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AV ฤR (CzechGlobe), Katedra rozvojovรฝch... Continue Reading →
Food security and biodiversity conservation are two key challenges for many countries around the world. The simultaneous provision of food security and biodiversity conservation requires a governance system that can address intra- and intersectoral complexity. However, the two sectors are often treated as separate goals. In their recent study, Jiren et al. (2021) explore challenges encountered by governance systems to deliver integrated biodiversity and food security governance. To this end, they identified food security and biodiversity governance challenges in a multi-level governance context in southwestern Ethiopia. Specifically, this study focused on identifying institutional interplay problems within and between the two sectors at different governance levels.
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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 →
How to make our response to climate change more just and sustainable? This central question will be addressed by a new project, Just-Scapes, which we contribute to in collaboration with University of East Anglia, Lille Catholic University, ESPOL โ European School of Political and Social Sciences and INRAE โ French National Research Institute for Agriculture,... Continue Reading →
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