Highlights

Publication Highlights – with Summaries

KEYNOTE at Sustainability Frontiers Conference held by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Lund University:

In the presentation (viewable here), I called attention to blind spots in sustainability science bearing on the topic of “Inner transformation and future imaginaries: How are inner transformations, imaginaries and futures providing opportunity for new insights and transformations.”

“Connecting the Dots for Sustainability Transformations.” Seminar on the topic of Concepts, History and Perspectives on Earth System Science at the 10th Symposium of Postgraduate Studies in Earth System Science of the National Institute for Space Research (PG-CST/INPE), Brazil, November 22, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7iJ6Ym114

https://americanassembly.org/news/video-trust-models-modeling-trust-55dtr-yj2ff-gzlsr

Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at Columbia University, 15 April 2021. Paul Edwards, Gil Eyal and Myanna Lahsen, hosted by Gil Eyal.

Politics of Attributing Extreme Events and Disasters to Climate Change

Article by Myanna Lahsen and Jesse Ribot. Download here: Politics of Attributing Extreme Events and Disasters to Climate Change

For highlights and discussion of the article by Roger Pielke Jr., see: https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1469330421292822531
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-our-climate-attribution

For a popular news article by myself and Jesse Ribot in Advanced Science News on the politics of attributing disasters to climate change, see the image below of an article accessible here.

Sociology of sustainability science:

New article calls attention to how logics of research communities need to be examined and changed to improve the usefulness of research for sustainability transformations.

AI for Sustainability Transformations:

The imperative of examining assumptions behind current policies and instating more responsible governance structures to ensure public benefits, also for sustainability