The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies promotes post-disciplinary research on the environment, with a particular focus on the humanities
#BloomsburyAcademic has a new book series, Global Challenges in Environmental Humanities, co-edited by the Executive Director of the BRIDGES Coalition in UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme. This helps fill a real need in humanities-led #sustainabilityscience!
...of species extinction, to mobilize societal action on #biodiversity loss, the planetary crisis that often becomes lost in our limited public debate and action to redress the climate crisis.
And then he rage-drew this...
Yesterday my son 17-year-old son Dylan showed me an amazing piece that he said he rage-drew when something personal was upsetting him. Today I asked him if he could channel that rage. We talked of #climatechange & planetary #biodiversity, & how the present trajectories of both...
2/ At this inaugural meeting of @bridges_science@UNESCO, our student-led research team @PPEHLab@PennSAS@upenn is presenting our project "My Climate Story," one example of the work BRIDGES endeavours to encourage to help meet urgent needs in this era of ecological crisis.
Miss Day 1 of the #BRIDGES Inaugural General Assembly today?
No worries.
Catch the whole program here. BRIDGES is a humanities-led sustainability science coalition organized within #UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme.
https://t.co/jRayyeNTmE via @YouTube
3 hours from the launch of the Inaugural General Assembly of #BRIDGES, a humanities-led sustainability science coalition organized within #UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme. Follow the event LIVE today (Mon 24 May, 1:00-5:30 pm CEST).
https://t.co/y9L0Lx1yoI
We are delighted to announce the Inaugural BRIDGES Coalition General Assembly and launch talking place Mon 24 May & Tues 25 May 2021, both days 1:00-5:30 pm CEST. We are also happy to share the preliminary program (still subject to change before the event) in the thread below.
Many partners played an indispensable role in this process, including NIES. Special thanks go out to @UNESCO, @Hum4theEnv & #CIPSH for leading the way & to Instituto Terra e Memória #Mação, #Sigtunastiftelsen, & @cappadocia_ehc for hosting the workshops that led to this outcome.
Last week marked a watershed moment in the process to establish #BRIDGES as a UNESCO MOST Sustainability Science Coalition. BRIDGES was endorsed by MOST's Intergovernmental Council & now its active phase as a Humanities-driven international SuS resource begins! Watch for updates!
The chambered nautilus has been around longer than TREES, but this species is on the brink of extinction because of the shell trade. Add your name to #StopExtinction: https://t.co/mrBDqVKRhh
On the need for environmental humanities (#envhum) & the humanities more generally to engage systematically in the science-policy-society interface. Especially in international & national knowledge-assessment & policy-advisement processes re #climatechange, #biodiversity & #SDGs.
More than 97 percent of climate scientists believe climate change is happening and is human caused. But not David Legates, the Trump administration’s new @NOAA appointee. How will he impact the upcoming National Climate Assessment?
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