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Dialogue
Transformative change: idealistic utopia or the only way to go?
Biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, which will lead to significant consequences at a global scale. There is a widespread agreement among science and policy communities that conventional policies will not be enough to halt biodiversity loss or curb climate change.
Key Presentation:
- Francisco Alpízar, Chair and Professor of the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group - WUR
With:
- Jeanne Nel, Lead of the Biodiverse Environment Programme - WUR
- Verina Ingram, Associate professor, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy & Senior researcher WEcR - WUR
More urgent and ambitious ‘transformative changes’ are needed to the ways in which we live, and the ways in which our economies and societies use and relate to nature and natural resources. Transformative change focuses on the fundamental system-wide restructuring of the root causes to sustainability challenges, which are underpinned by complex social paradigms, values and behaviours.
Bringing society into science- Dialogues Series, Powered by Social Sciences Group
The ‘Bringing society into science- Dialogues Series’ is an initiative led by the Social Sciences Group (SSG) at WUR and it is meant to be an interactive and inter-intra disciplinary dialogue space, to promote collaboration and find answers together for today’s big societal challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, inequalities in prosperity and health.
These are challenges resulting from our way of life, our use of the earth and the logic of societal and economic structures. Our global society holds the keys to finding answers to these major challenges, and within WUR the Social Sciences Group have a central role to play in close interaction with other science groups and key stakeholders.