European Union Award
SESYNC affiliate scholar and postdoc alumnus Jampel Dell’Angelo and colleague win prestigious 4M Euro award to advance water governance
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Postdoc Lightning Talks
Lightning talks presented by SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellows.
Pursuit: Understanding causal pathways and feedbacks within complex water management systems
Understanding causal pathways and feedbacks within complex water management systems
Here we propose that a better understanding of causal pathways and feedbacks within water systems—the causality and feedbacks between hydroclimatic conditions, human and ecosystem needs, and reservoir operations—could lead to more sustainable management outcomes when dynamic, competing needs for water exist.
Graduate Pursuit: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Using Marine Protected Areas to Investigate Potential Socio-Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in Marine Spatial Planning
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Using Marine Protected Areas to Investigate Potential Socio-Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in Marine Spatial Planning
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an important tool in the context of marine spatial planning where resources are managed according to specific regulations that typically focus on conservation and sustainable harvesting.
Pursuit: Planning for sustainable water futures in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the SDGs
"Planning for sustainable water futures in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the SDGs"
The goal of this proposed Pursuit is to aid planning for sustainable water futures in sub-Saharan Africa built around provision of FWES from healthy freshwater ecosystems, in support of achieving the SDGs. The team will synthesize existing knowledge and data across sub-Saharan Africa on FWES and the distribution and role of grey infrastructure.
Pursuit:Can enhancing diversity help scale up agriculture's benefits to people and the environment?
"Can enhancing diversity help scale up agriculture's benefits to people and the environment?"
Diversity matters. Diversity in colour, gender, culture, and ideas, are what make our world interesting and beautiful. In recent years diversity in our agricultural systems has been rapidly changing. Two existing SESYNC projects aim to understand the political drivers of this change, and its impacts on human nutrition.
Pursuit: Diverse pathways to nourishment: Understanding how agricultural biodiversity enhances food security and nutrition
"Diverse pathways to nourishment: Understanding how agricultural biodiversity enhances food security and nutrition"
There is a growing research consensus that agrobiodiversity can be an important resource for supporting human food security and nutrition (FSN). This Pursuit proposes to move beyond the question of whether a link between agrobiodiversity and FSN exists, and asks how this relationship develops in specific agroecological, sociocultural, and policy contexts.
Pursuit: Linkages of agrobiodiversity in urban systems and food-producing landscapes
"Linkages of agrobiodiversity in urban systems and food-producing landscapes"
Supporting the biodiversity of food systems amid expanding urbanization is one of the main challenges facing humanity. This Pursuit addresses two major knowledge-policy gaps in this domain: (1) the biodiversity of food-producing landscapes (rural, periurban, urban) linked to urbanization; and (2) contemporary urbanization dynamics and their linkages to food systems.
Foundation: If the past teaches, what does the future learn?
If the past teaches, what does the future learn?
To ensure the human future, it is of utmost importance that the conditions, ideas, and practices that nurture both the planet and our species be implemented. Of particular concern are today’s cities, many of which are not sited or planned for long-term sustainability. IHOPE asserts that the laboratory of the past is where sustainable urban forms can be identified and their characteristics evaluated for future use.
Pursuit: Winter Weather Whiplash: Developing Indices of Extreme Winter Weather Variability and Socio-Ecological Responses
"Winter Weather Whiplash: Developing Indices of Extreme Winter Weather Variability and Socio-Ecological Responses"
This is a closed meeting for a funded group of visiting scholars.
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