Environment, resilience and justice workshop
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ENV/105x, Environment Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Event details
Earlier in 2025, the University of York (UK)'s York Environmental Sustainability Institute in collaboration with Mahidol University (Thailand) and Makerere University (Uganda) as WUN partners, hosted three hybrid sessions focusing on resilience and justice in the interdisciplinary environmental sustainability space, yielding rich presentations and fascinating discussions.We are now proposing a 90-min hybrid discussion. We are witnessing large-scale anthropogenic changes to the environment and climate, which are often detrimental to people and the planet in complex and interlinked ways. Barriers to more resilience and justice include diverse threats to socio-ecological systems, lacks of effective responses, and limitations to how we do research. Discovering ways to promote resilience, sustainability and justice to promote both nature and its varied contributions to people, including through participatory, inclusive and equitable research methods or around the theme of regenerative food systems, is therefore vital. At York and in partner institutions, we have a wealth of expertise across disciplines, which we would like to bring together to address these wicked challenges.
Our objective for this November session is threefold: firstly, we would like to continue the vibrant conversation on barriers to attaining resilience and justice in the people-environment nexus, as well as pathways towards success in boosting resilience and justice in this space. We would also like to check in on existing funding opportunities and continue working towards a proposal among our coalition. Finally, we would like to open the conversation up to colleagues from other institutions as well.
We would like to invite both colleagues who have previously been involved, and other colleagues to participate. Please indicate in the registration form if you are able to contribute a two-minute research idea related to barriers and pathways to success regarding environment, justice and resilience - a brief pitch in terms of topic to address, or ecosystem, or case-study, or funder.
If you have questions, please contact robert.marchant@york.