From 10 to 14 November 2025, I took part in the Regional Youth Workshop on IPBES for Europe and Central Asia at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Isle of Vilm, Germany. Hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), the workshop brought together early-career participants working on biodiversity, ecosystem services... Continue Reading →
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 →
On 19 and 20 September 2025, I had the opportunity to participate in the DLGS (Dresden Leibniz Graduate School) Summer School which took place at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development in Dresden, Germany. The theme for this yearโs school was, โShaping Spaces for Sustainability Transformation: Challenges for Policy and Planning.โ The... Continue Reading →
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 →
In June 2025, the ISEE-Degrowth Conference took place in Oslo under the theme โBuilding socially just postgrowth futures โ linking theory and action.โ This unique event combined the 18th International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) Conference and the 11th International Degrowth Conference, drawing over 1,200 participants from 60 countries, supported by approximately 70 volunteers. The... Continue Reading →
From 26 May to 20 June 2025 I had the opportunity to spend four weeks at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, where I was hosted by the Spatial Planning Group led by Prof. Niki Frantzeskaki. This research stay was made possible thanks to the TransformERS COST Action (CA22156), under which it was awarded... Continue Reading →
The recent collaborative workshop held in Oslo on 15โ16 April brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of 32 scholars and practitioners from across 18 countries, including David Stella and Simeon Vaลo from the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, united by a shared interest in exploring prefigurative politics on transformations.... Continue Reading →
Threats to pollinators and pollination services that support agriculture and provide benefits to people are a worldwide problem. This is recognised by scientists, national or transnational initiatives, and even policies. A team from our department at CzechGlobe has joined a new project that aims to help agriculture to become a positive force for pollinator biodiversity, crop pollination services and co-benefits to ecosystems and people.ย
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On 21 January 2025, a research workshop was held to explore possible pathways to transform the energy sector and food systems in the Czech Republic towards sustainability. The workshop was organized by the Department of Socio-Ecological Analysis of the Global Change Research Institute CAS (CzechGlobe). Apart from the research team, a group of ten stakeholders from various transformative initiatives, networks, and social...
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V รบterรฝ 21. ledna 2025 probฤhl vรฝzkumnรฝ workshop, kterรฝ hledal moลพnรฉ cesty k transformaci sektoru energetiky a potravinovรฝch systรฉmลฏ v ฤesku smฤrem k udrลพitelnosti. Setkรกnรญ probฤhlo v reลพii Oddฤlenรญ sociรกlnฤ-ekologickรฉ analรฝzy รstavu vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤny AV ฤR (CzechGlobe) a kromฤ vรฝzkumnรฉho tรฝmu se jej zรบฤastnila i desรญtka stakeholderลฏ z transformativnรญch iniciativ, networkลฏ a sociรกlnรญch...
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TransformERS is a COST Action network that aims to inform research, policy and practice for transformations that deliver justice in a changing global context by bringing together and positioning research relevant to societal transformation. Societal transformations such as these are refered to as highly necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss, and are... 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 →
A modeller from the UK, a marine biologist from the Netherlands, and a policy analyst from Estonia meet in Amsterdam... What may sound like the beginning of an anecdote is in fact a snapshot of 40 individuals, mostly from Europe, meeting on the (sunny!) banks of one of Amsterdamโs canals, coming together for a week... 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 →
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 →
With the world breaking all the wrong records and the science stressing the need to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss louder than ever, it is high time to investigate current unique initiatives that are part of the solution rather than the problem. Therefore, within BIONEXT, a research and innovation project that joins the... Continue Reading →
V termรญnu 2. - 5. 10. 2023 jsme se zรบฤastnili druhรฉho tematickรฉho workshopu projektu SELINA s podtitulem โAdvancing solutionsโ (for mapping, assessment and accounting of ecosystems and their services). Workshop poลรกdala partnerskรก instituce Universidad Rey Juan Carlos ve ลกpanฤlskรฉm Madridu. Projekt SELINA (akronym pro Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAatural capital) je podpoลen... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
A new paper has been published in Nature Sustainability in which an international team of authors led by Guido Caniglia of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research explore the use of practical wisdom and virtue ethics in knowledge co-production in sustainability science. Practical wisdom and virtue ethics strengthen the capacity of sustainability... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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...
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 →
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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