I recently had the opportunity to travel to Univerzita Komenskรฉho (Comenius University) in Bratislava, Slovakia to take part in theย 33rdย conferenceย for theย European Early Childhood Education and Research Association (EECERA). For some followers of this blog, this might seem like a slight deviation from the issues and fields we normally explore in our Human Dimensions Department. However,... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the wonderful work of and support from the Transformers COST Action (๐), I recently had the opportunity to participate in two consecutive events, both focused on transformative change for sustainability. Both allowed me to broaden my experience, my views, the community with which I interact and work, and finally to broaden the way I... Continue Reading →
V uplynulรฝch tลech letech se nฤkolik ฤlenลฏ naลกich sesterskรฝch oddฤlenรญ podรญlelo na hodnotรญcรญch zprรกvรกch Mezivlรกdnรญ vฤdecko-politickรฉ platformy pro biodiverzitu a ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby (IPBES), zejmรฉna na hodnotรญcรญ zprรกvฤ Tematickรฉ hodnocenรญ vzรกjemnรฝch vazeb mezi biologickou rozmanitostรญ, vodou, potravinami a zdravรญm (hodnotรญcรญ zprรกva zamฤลenรก na nexus) a hodnotรญcรญ zprรกvฤ Tematickรฉ hodnocenรญ zรกkladnรญch pลรญฤin ztrรกty biologickรฉ rozmanitosti, determinantลฏ transformativnรญ... Continue Reading →
The Beskydy Workshop 2024, held from September 24โ26 at Hotel Horal in Velkรฉ Karlovice, focused on the theme of "Nature-Based Governance: Coevolutionary and Transformative Perspectives on the Biodiversity and Climate Crises." This scientific gathering brought together researchers and practitioners to explore nature-based governance (NBG) from a coevolutionary and co-creative perspective by responding to people's and... Continue Reading →
Oddฤlenรญ sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฉ analรฝzy (SE Lab) dokonฤilo v nedรกvnรฉ dobฤ prรกci na projektu Just Scapes, kterรฝ se zamฤลil na spravedlivou transformaci venkovskรฝch oblastรญ v Evropฤ. ล lo o projekt v mezinรกrodnรญ spoluprรกci, pลiฤemลพ ฤeskรก pลรญpadovรก studie, kterou zpracovรกvalo prรกvฤ oddฤlenรญ SE Lab, probรญhala na Slovรกcku a Valaลกsku. Zkoumali jsme vztah mezi ochotou mรญstnรญch obyvatel pลijรญmat zmฤny v... Continue Reading →
Ve ฤtvrtek 23. kvฤtna 2024 se v Praze uskuteฤnil vรฝzkumnรฝ workshop mapujรญcรญ mechanismy transformativnรญ zmฤny smฤrem k udrลพitelnosti v sektorech energetiky, potravin a zemฤdฤlstvรญ v ฤesku. Organizovalo jej Oddฤlenรญ sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฉ analรฝzy (SE Lab) รstavu vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AV ฤR (รVGZ). ล lo uลพ o druhรฉ setkรกnรญ vรฝzkumnic a vรฝzkumnรญkลฏ naลกeho oddฤlenรญ se stakeholdery, kteลรญ se v... Continue Reading →
SELINA (Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decIsions about NAtural capital) is a Horizon Europe project with the mission to provide robust practical information and recommendations on ecosystem services to stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. SELINA will develop guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of ecosystems. Through... Continue Reading →
In April 2024, a two-day workshop on Mobility Communities was held in Porto, Portugal, as part of series of workshops organised under the Knowledge Brokerage Programme within the project SSH Centre. CzechGlobe, a partner of the project consortium, was represented by Tereza Prรกลกilovรก, who attended the workshop as an active observer. First day of the... Continue Reading →
A workshop on the sustainability aspect of the solidarity economy was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eรถtvรถs Lorรกnd University (ELTE) on April 22, 2024, in Budapest. The Culture Club @ ELTE TรกTK organized the workshop to increase awareness and understanding of sustainability among college, master's, and PhD students. CzechGlobe's Elif Tugba Simsek... Continue Reading →
FoSTA-Health is a project where Lenka Suchรก and Aneta Seidlovรก from CzechGlobe, along with partners from the University of Leeds, contribute to the research components focused on the on-ground food systems transformation in Tanzania and Malawi. They are specifically interested in how the food systems transformations are framed by the small-scale farmers who are most... Continue Reading →
The PLUS Change project aims to develop strategies and decision-making processes for land use that effectively address challenges related to climate change, biodiversity, and human well-being. The project involves interventions across diverse political, economic, societal, material, and cultural contexts, involving actors at multiple decision-making levels including the individual, land management, planning, and policy levels. This... Continue Reading →
The FoSTA Health team conducted the first round of cross-country stakeholder consultation workshops for the project across Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Malawi between October 11 and 12, 2023. The workshops aimed to glean diverse perspectives on food system transformations, focusing on One Health outcomes. These engagements are the first step toward exploring how human,... Continue Reading →
Elba is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago and the third largest one in Italy. Its terrain is very diverse, with the eastern and western areas being largely mountainous and most of the large cities concentrated in the central flat; some 31 309 permanent residents inhabit the seven communes of the island. One... Continue Reading →
The PLUS Change projectโPlanning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a changing worldโa collaborative Horizon Europe project involving representatives from 14 countries and 23 institutions, commenced with a highly successful kick-off meeting held in Prague from June 12th to 14th. Read the press release on the project's linkedin. You can follow... Continue Reading →
In the Horizon Europe-funded project BIONEXT, European changemakers are exploring new visions for nature-centered Europe for 2050. In the first out of three BIONEXT workshops, in May 2023 in Greece, changemakers from different backgrounds created visions of what a nature-centred Europe can look like in the year 2050. Who are the changemakers participating in BIONEXT... Continue Reading →
In April-May 2023 FoSTA-Health researchers participated in scoping activities in Zambia and Malawi. Our CzechGlobe team member, Lenka Suchรก, joined our other colleagues from the consortium for one week in Malawi. The primary aim of the scoping visit was to gather background information about one-health and food systems transformations in order to refine our research... 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 →
Beyond economic growth in sustainability debates. We quite often witness heated disputes on the direction of sustainability transitions. These debates are slowly making its way also to popular spaces and the media, often distorted and biased. Within this discourse, there are two recognisable ideological streams: one representing the proponents of ...
Po roce se do Zรกpadnรญ provincie v Zambii vydaly v rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing vรฝzkumnice z CzechGlobe, Lenka Suchรก, Zuzana Harmรกฤkovรก a Aneta Seidlovรก, spolu s kolegy z Katedry rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉho a z organizace ฤlovฤk v tรญsni. Tรฝm se vฤnoval prohlubovรกnรญ vรฝzkumu klรญฤovรฝch tรฉmat, kterรก jsou dลฏleลพitรก jak pro ลพivot mรญstnรญch lidรญ... Continue Reading →
What are the possible solutions that would help remove barriers to landscape change and transition towards sustainable land management from the perspective of local stakeholders? In February 2023, we held the last round of Just Scapes participatory workshops. For the past two years, we have been doing research focused on possible landscape and land management... Continue Reading →
Odbornรญci z CzechGlobe se pลipojujรญ k mezinรกrodnรญmu konsorciu zkoumajรญcรญmu, jakรฉ cesty by nรกm mohly pomoci transformovat ลetฤzce mezi tฤลพbou, vรฝrobou, spotลebou a obchodem tak, abychom dosรกhli pozitivnรญch vรฝsledkลฏ pro klima a biologickou rozmanitost. Novรฝ ฤtyลletรฝ projekt TRANSPATH je financovรกn z programu Evropskรฉ unie pro vรฝzkum a inovace Horizon Europe. Pomลฏลพe identifikovat intervence a body pลฏsobenรญ... Continue Reading →
Experts from CzechGlobe are joining an international consortium to study what pathways could help us transform the chains between extraction, production, consumption and trade, to achieve positive outcomes for climate and biodiversity. The new four-year project, TRANSPATH, is funded by the European Unionโs research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. It will identify leverage points and... 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 →
October 21, 2022: Earth System Governance Project 2022 conference in Toronto. Photo by Dave Chan. ESG 2022 took place from 20-24 October at Toronto University, CA. The central theme linking all the presented contributions was "Governing Accelerated Transitions". ESG 2022 hosted over a hundred sections, covering a wide range of topics connected to acceleration and... Continue Reading →
Last summer I started my research on conservation-development conflicts in the process of returning large carnivores in Europe (namely wolves in the Czech Republic) to the wild. A year later I returned to the field and spent two weeks among farmers in the cultural landscape of the Beskid Mountains area. Preliminary results show social injustices... Continue Reading →
Written by the Global Food and Environment Institute A new โฌ6.5 million project, funded by Horizon Europe and Innovate UK, will see colleagues from the Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI) collaborate with partners across Africa and Europe (one of them us, CzechGlobe) over the next three and half years. The Food Systems Transformation in... Continue Reading →
What is a social-ecological system and how do we study it? Why is it good to think about linkages between humans and nature in relation to development projects?ย Projects of Czech Development Cooperation (CDC) take place in a complex social-ecological system (SES), which represents the relations between society and nature. In this sense society is...
Co je to sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฝ systรฉm a jak se dรก zkoumat? Kโฏฤemu je dobrรฉ se zamรฝลกlet nad vazbami mezi ฤlovฤkem a pลรญrodou vโฏsouvislosti sโฏrozvojovรฝmi projekty? Projekty ฤeskรฉ rozvojovรฉ spoluprรกce (ZRS ฤR) se odehrรกvajรญ v komplexnรญm sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฉm systรฉmu, kterรฝ pลedstavuje vzรกjemnรฉ propojenรญ spoleฤnosti a pลรญrody. V tomto pojetรญ je spoleฤnost neoddฤlitelnou souฤรกstรญ pลรญrody, a proto je nutnรฉ... Continue Reading →
The one-day weekend workshop taught participants new creative writing and creative visual methods. It focused on works and ideas connected to nature, the landscape, and the environment. This workshop took place as part of the Just Scapes project, which deals with the just transformation of society and the landscape in the European countryside. We collaborated... Continue Reading →
Urban agriculture is widely supported across developing countries as it has proven to be a vital livelihood strategy among the urban poor, resulting in various benefits, including enhanced food security and socioeconomic empowerment. Many researchers and policymakers stress that legal land tenure is one of the key assets that help to enhance the potential of... Continue Reading →
Fokusnรญ skupina s farmรกลkami ve vesnici Mabumbu v Zรกpadnรญ provincii Zambie V rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing se vรฝzkumnice z naลกeho oddฤlenรญ, Lenka Suchรก a Zuzana Harmรกฤkovรก, spolu s kolegy z Katedry rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉho a z organizace ฤlovฤk v tรญsni vydaly na cestu do Zambie, kde shromaลพฤovaly vรฝzkumnรก data a mapovaly vazby mezi spoleฤenskรฝm... Continue Reading →
What changes do we see in local landscape and society, and what would we like to happen in the future? How do we ensure that the effects of these changes are just for everyone? The European countryside is undergoing great social and natural changes, including climate change. However, the impacts of these changes affect various... Continue Reading →
Our project Coop4Wellbeing has entered its second phase, which is dedicated to field research in Zambia. Together with colleagues from People in Need and the Department of Development and Environmental Studies at Palacky University, we took off to Zambia in February 2022. During our month-long fieldwork we mapped the links and dynamics between nature and... Continue Reading →
Vย rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing jsme v รบnoru 2022 vyrazili spolu sย kolegy a kolegynฤmi z organizace ฤlovฤk vย tรญsni a Katedry rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉho na terรฉnnรญ sbฤr dat do Zambie. Bฤhem mฤsรญฤnรญho pobytu vย oblasti kolem mฤsta Mongu, regionรกlnรญho centra Zรกpadnรญ provincie, jsme mapovali vazby mezi spoleฤnostรญ a pลรญrodou. Zamฤลili jsme se takรฉ na to, jak... Continue Reading →
Naลกe pลรญpadovรก studie, kterรก v rรกmci projektu Just Scapes v souฤasnosti probรญhรก na Slovรกcku a Valaลกsku, se zamฤลuje na prลฏzkum vazeb mezi ochotou lidรญ pลijmout a realizovat transformativnรญ zmฤny v krajinฤ kolem nich a tรญm, jak vnรญmajรญ environmentรกlnรญ spravedlnost...
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
V rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing usilujeme o vyลกลกรญ provรกzanost vฤdy a aplikovanรฉho vรฝzkumu s ฤeskou rozvojovou spolupracรญ. Naลกรญm hlavnรญm cรญlem je pลevedenรญ vรฝzkumnรฝch poznatkลฏ tรฝkajรญcรญch se vazeb a interakce mezi spoleฤnostรญ a pลรญrodou do praxe โrozvojovkyโ. Proto jsme prvnรญ fรกzi Coop4Wellbeing postavili na kvalitativnรญch rozhovorech s klรญฤovรฝmi aktรฉry ฤeskรฉ rozvojovky. Bฤhem analรฝzy jsme se soustลedili pลedevลกรญm na pลฏvod... Continue Reading →
The Coop4Wellbeeing project aims at strengthening linkages among science, applied research, and Czech development cooperation. Our main goal is to spark the process of knowledge transfer from the collaborative research on social-ecological linkages to the practice. The first phase of the project was based on qualitative interviews with key actors of Czech development cooperation. We... Continue Reading →
POLLEN je globรกlnรญ sรญลฅ pro politickou ekologii (vรฝzkumnou oblast ลeลกรญcรญ, jakรฝm zpลฏsobem se politickรฉ a spoleฤenskรฉ uspoลรกdรกnรญ podepisuje na sprรกvฤ pลรญrodnรญho prostลedรญ a zdrojลฏ). Cรญlem sรญtฤ POLLEN je podporovat spoluprรกci mezi lidmi, kteลรญ se vฤnujรญ otรกzkรกm politickรฉ ekologie, zprostลedkovรกvat vรฝmฤnu zkuลกenostรญ a propagovat vรฝznam politickรฉ ekologie po celรฉm svฤtฤ mezi akademiky i dalลกรญmi skupinami. ฤinnost... Continue Reading →
Our current case study within the Just Scapes project (see https://sustainablecz.org/2021/05/03/launching-the-just-scapes-project/) in Slovรกcko and Valaลกsko regions focuses on exploring the relationship between peopleโs willingness to accept and implement transformative changes in landscapes around them and their perception of environmental justice of these changes. In particular, we are interested in landscape changes related to climate change adaptation and tree cover in agricultural landscapes (alleys,... Continue Reading →
Produkce a spotลeba potravin vย dneลกnรญ dobฤ propojuje i velmi vzdรกlenรก mรญsta planety โ ลพijeme vย tzv. globรกlnรญm potravinovรฉm systรฉmu. Tento systรฉm vลกak nefunguje bezchybnฤ โ je mimo jinรฉ nรกroฤnรฝ na suroviny, ohroลพenรฝ mรญstnรญmi konflikty i klimatickou krizรญ a ฤasto vรฝraznฤ nespravedlivรฝ vลฏฤi mรญstnรญm zemฤdฤlcลฏm na celรฉ planetฤ i celรฝm stรกtลฏm. V poslednรญch letech se navรญc zaฤรญnรก sniลพovat... Continue Reading →
When it comes to large carnivores in Europe, what are the main issues described by farmers, foresters and herd keepers, and what are the just measures to give both parties (animals and humans) their needed living space? The return of large carnivores to Europe as a means of rewilding nature is gradually becoming one of the burning issues for a variety of... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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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