Povodnฤ roku 2024 ukรกzaly, ลพe pลipravenost spoleฤnosti se nemฤลรญ jen vรฝลกkou hrรกzรญ, ale i silou dลฏvฤry a schopnostรญ rozhodovat pod tlakem. Studie o resilienci ฤeskรฉ krajiny pลinรกลกรญ cennรฉ poznatky o tom, jak se stรกt, obce, starostovรฉ a vฤdci spoleฤnฤ uฤรญ zvlรกdat nejistotu a budovat kulturu spoluprรกce, kterรก obstojรญ i v dobฤ klimatickรฝch extrรฉmลฏ. Resilience tak... Continue Reading →
The 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research
From 29 September to 1 October 2025, the interdisciplinary research community engaged in archetype analysis convened for the 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research. Hosted at the Thรผnen Institute of Biodiversity in Braunschweig, Germany, the event brought together around 40 researchers, providing a dynamic forum for exchanging and advancing ideas at the... Continue Reading →
Launching the IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment: Reflections from the First Authorsโ Meeting
The intensive and productive week-long first authorsโ meeting for the IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment took place at IIASA in Laxenburg from 22โ26 September 2025. The meeting brought together more than 100 experts to launch this fast-track methodological assessment, co-chaired by Peter Verburg, Maria Jose Martinez Harms, and Luis Inostroza. This assessment focuses on... Continue Reading →
Book review: Dean Spade. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
This summary review presents Dean Spade's book, "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)," published by Verso Press in October 2020. Five years after its release, the book remains highly relevant to contemporary politics. Spade aims to illustrate how a sense of emergency determines contemporary politics arising from severe crises such as... Continue Reading →
Reflections of a foreign PhD student living in Czechia
The thought of travelling to another country, experiencing a new culture and accessing new opportunities is exhilarating. However, this will die down after some months and you will start missing home. This feeling is normal. Moreover, the thought of settling at your new location can be exciting and at the same time daunting. Having lived... Continue Reading →
Leading with heart: revitalising traditional science for facing todayโs global crisesย
A lot of the work in our department dives into the realms of behavioural psychology theories, in designing interventions which could lead to positive behavioural changes (for example PLUSchange) to benefit and protect our natural world. For example, some of our research asks the question, which interventions are most effective in bringing about pro-environmental behavioural... Continue Reading →
Tลetรญ setkรกnรญ Nรกrodnรญ platformy pro ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby
Praha โ V rรกmci aktivit integrovanรฉho projektu LIFE pro soustavu Natura 2000 v ฤR zvanรฉho Jedna pลรญroda uspoลรกdalo Ministerstvo ลพivotnรญho prostลedรญ (MลฝP) ve spoluprรกci s รstavem vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AV ฤR (CzechGlobe) dne 18. dubna 2024 v prostorรกch Akademie vฤd ฤeskรฉ republiky v Praze tลetรญ zasedรกnรญ Nรกrodnรญ platformy pro ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby (NPES). Cรญlem tลetรญho setkรกnรญ NPES bylo... Continue Reading →
Launching the SSH Centre: Bringing together researchers, citizens and policy-makers
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 →
Nรกstroje ochrany pลรญrody v novรฉm svฤtle? Projekt MรSES+ Veฤพkรฝ ล ariลก propojil pลรญrodnรญ a spoleฤenskรฉ vฤdy
Mฤsto Veฤพkรฝ ล ariลก, kterรฉ se nachรกzรญ na vรฝchodnรญm Slovensku, se v roce 2022 zapojilo do projektu MรSES+, v rรกmci kterรฉho zรญskalo strategickรฝ dokument Mรญstnรญ รบzemnรญ systรฉm ekologickรฉ stability (MรSES) s pลidanou sociรกlnรญ dimenzรญ (+). *Mรญstnรญ รบzemnรญ systรฉm ekologickรฉ stability - รSES - je zรกkladnรญm nรกstrojem ochrany pลรญrody a krajiny, rozmanitosti podmรญnek a forem ลพivota, jakoลพ... Continue Reading →
The Department Highlights of 2021
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
Participativnรญ mapovรกnรญ ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb
Ekosystรฉmovรฉ sluลพby lze mapovat odbornรฝmi zpลฏsoby podle objektivnรญch dat, pลรญpadnฤ podle statistickรฝch hodnot z literatury nebo matematickรฝm modelovรกnรญm. Participativnรญ (pลรญp. komunitnรญ) mapovรกnรญ slouลพรญ k zรญskรกnรญ dat o percepci prostorovรฉho vรฝskytu ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb v zรกjmovรฉm รบzemรญ. Tito nejsou pochopitelnฤ vฤtลกinou odbornรญci na vลกechny oblasti jako je zemฤdฤlstvรญ nebo vodnรญ hospodรกลstvรญ apod. Nicmรฉnฤ patลรญ mezi ty, kteลรญ spoluurฤujรญ... Continue Reading →
IP LIFE visited some of the Special Area of Conservation in Bohemian Central Uplands this October
CzechGlobe is one of the organizations that has been participating in the integrated LIFE project "One Nature" for the Natura 2000 system in the Czech Republic since 2019 (LIFE17 IPE / CZ / 000005 LIFE-IP: N2K revisited). The aim of this project is to set up and ensure a more efficient system of care for... Continue Reading →
Knowledge creation in Czech development cooperation
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 →
PANELOVร DISKUZE Opatลenรญ v oblasti zmฤny klimatu
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 →
Kdyลพ vฤda nestaฤรญ
Kdyลพ jsem hned po ลกkole mohla nastoupit do รstavu vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AVฤR, cรญtila jsem se poctฤna. Po prvotnรญch mฤsรญcรญch zmatenรญ a nejistoty jsem se postupnฤ rozkoukala a alespoล ฤรกsteฤnฤ, tak jak covid dovolil, zapadla do kolobฤhu ลeลกenรญ vรฝzkumลฏ, rozsรกhlรฝch projektลฏ a deadlinลฏ. Vฤdu vnรญmรกm jako nesmรญrnฤ dลฏleลพitou disciplรญnu, bez nรญลพ bychom toho jako lidstvo... Continue Reading →
Challenge accepted: A year among social scientists
(Photo by Jonathan Greenaway on Unsplash) With summer hitting its peak and most people taking their well-deserved holiday, Iโd like to offer an easy read, with less science content but hopefully still enriching in its own way. As a physical geographer, I admit being surprised when offered a chance to join the Human Dimensions of... Continue Reading →











