To wrap up about the PECS conference in Oaxaca, let me just tell you a little bit about a part of the research presented there that really speaks to me on an emotional level. It is research about stories. We are a storytelling species. (This is so true for me! Anyone who has known meContinue reading “thoughts from a session: Telling stories for more hopeful futures”
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thoughts from a session: Fostering complexity thinkers
Almost every session I went to at the PECS conference gave me something new to think about, and I took a lot of notes also from the sessions I was not assigned to blog about. They’re all a jumble now, both notes and impressions, and I can’t really trace them back to a specific sessionContinue reading “thoughts from a session: Fostering complexity thinkers”
thoughts from a session: Teaching sustainability science
[Written for and posted on the official PECSII blog on November 23] Transforming the way we think about education – Reflections from Friday innovative and immersive session “Educating ‘glocally’: place-based research in international sustainability-education” The last day of the conference, just before lunch, I attend a small immersive session on education in sustainability science. Chair,Continue reading “thoughts from a session: Teaching sustainability science”
thoughts from a session: Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services
[Written for and posted on the official PECSII blog on November 14] My morning walk: Socio-cultural alternatives to valuating ecosystem services – Reflections from Thursday parallell session “Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services” I have just moved apartments. From my new place, I can walk to work. Every morning a path through a little grove ofContinue reading “thoughts from a session: Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services”
thoughts from a session: Opening plenary
[Written for and posted on the official PECSII blog on November 8] Power assymetries and global finance: Embracing conflict and connecting with unexpected alliances – Reflections from first plenary on “The role of place-based research for global sustainability and how global drivers affect place” Wednesday morning at Hotel Misión de los Angeles. The air isContinue reading “thoughts from a session: Opening plenary”
the second conference of the programme of ecosystem change and society
I was not in Mexico to get overwhelmed by the celebrations of the dead, to visit temples or even to learn how to cook a proper mole colorado. I was there to attend a scientific conference. The second conference of the Programme of Ecosystem Change and Society, or PECSII for short. PECS is a researchContinue reading “the second conference of the programme of ecosystem change and society”
once upon a time at a conference
A month and a half ago, there was a conference. Big, located in the fanciest, most central conference center in Stockholm. A thousand participants from all over the world. All about the frontiers of resilience research. Organized by Stockholm Resilience Centre. The planning had gone on for years. I jumped in about a year ago,Continue reading “once upon a time at a conference”
the art of being young and boring
Towards the end of September (again, I’m LATE), I went to a workshop in France. It was a final team meeting with most collaborators in the project that I’m part of. The project lead works in Montpellier, so that’s where we all went, people flying in from all over, Ghana, Burkina Faso, California, Minnesota, UK.Continue reading “the art of being young and boring”
spreading the word (mid-August)
In mid-August, I was invited to talk about my research at the yearly Burkina Faso day at Öland’s college. The day was organized by the local UN association and the Sweden-Burkina Faso friendship association, and consisted of a series of presentations about Burkina Faso by different professionals: a social anthropology professor who studies local democracyContinue reading “spreading the word (mid-August)”
the use of the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the statistician
A bit more than a week ago, I attended Utvecklingsforum 2015 [Development forum 2015], a yearly event arranged by the Swedish international development and cooperation agency Sida. Quite naturally, the subject of this years event was the Sustainable Development Goals. My boss, Johan Rockström, was one of the keynote speakers, and he was all fire, explainingContinue reading “the use of the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the statistician”
Katja Malmborg 