tag:www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de,2005:/en/forschung/forschungszentren/css/about-css/newsNews2024-03-13T09:46:31ZNAGR-fakws-23468754-production2024-03-11T23:00:00ZWhen the environment sues for sustainability<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/37038907/mar-menor-a-733x414-80437e1f36e7826bd32a9f9a96942cddb55d8bb3.jpg" /><p>Everybody’s talking about it, many are promising to deliver it, and a few are making serious efforts to do so: sustainability. It’s a term that people around the world use for orientation, but which often serves as nothing more than a mantra. After all, being sustainable ultimately means maintaining equilibrium between the consumption and regeneration of natural resources – which doesn’t leave future generations with fewer opportunities and ensures the preservation of ecosystems. But if we take a look at our resource consumption and the climate changes on the horizon, we see just how far we are from that goal.</p>
Researching the futures of sustainability: Frank Adloff. (Photo: Katja Klein)
<p>As a member of the Board of Directors at Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and – you guessed it – Sustainability, or CEN, I’m especially interested in how societies are responding to climate change and biodiversity loss. As my research shows, in practice there are three main paths for pursuing sustainability.</p>
<p>On the one hand, there are measures that fall into the category of “modernization.” Many favor this path. Governments, NGOs and the industrial sector support the vision of simply continuing to manufacture and grow as usual, but in a modern, “green economy” without harmful side-effects. In this approach, the plan is for a combination of innovations and CO2 pricing to stop climate change and preserve our livelihoods. But the bottom line is sobering: biodiversity continues to decline, the mountains of garbage continue to grow, and our planet is becoming warmer and warmer.</p>
<p>Post-sustainability: doing everything in our power to keep burdens from getting worse</p>
<p>Consequently, others call for a radical change: transformation. The growth-based logic at the core of capitalism has to be abandoned. Since our planet doesn’t have limitless resources, constant growth has to end at some point. Radically rethinking our economies could pave the way for more sustainable growth. Yet our analyses indicate that we’re still a far cry from achieving this.</p>
<p>The third path involves a somewhat grimmer scenario, one based on authoritarian policies and control. Conceivably, individual countries or firms could independently implement geoengineering measures, the EU’s borders could be fortified, or the elite could seclude themselves in safety zones. Since the current crises could lead to an ecological state of emergency, we actually expect to see control imposed more often in the future. Democratic processes could be suspended, allowing states to directly intervene. From a geopolitical standpoint, a number of factors currently point in this direction.</p>
<p>Giving rights to nature</p>
<p>But we won’t achieve true sustainability in time with any of the three options above: from plastic litter and nuclear waste to the warming atmosphere and oceans, humanity has set off fundamental changes that will create tremendous burdens for the generations that follow us. In fact, we’re already living in the age of post-sustainability. Accordingly, we should do everything in our power to keep these burdens from getting even worse.</p>
<p>One ray of hope – an approach from the field of law. Though it comes from modernization, it can also be transformative: in 2008, Ecuador added certain rights for the environment in its federal constitution. Ever since, individuals and groups have had the right to file claims on behalf of ecosystems whenever the latter’s rights are infringed upon, e.g. through pollution or damage. In 2017, a river in New Zealand was declared a legal entity; in 2022, the lagoon Mar Menor became the first ecosystem in Europe to follow suit. In the future, the resulting court rulings could set new global precedents.</p>
<p></p><p>Photo: a.luciano-unsplash</p>NAGR-fakws-23396500-production2024-02-25T23:00:00ZFinal Report of the CSS Working Group "Sustainable Lives"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/16407796/biodiversity-bassen--privat-733x414-a5b1b20b91026cacfbc45135bc89a5f1f12ad4cf.jpg" /><p>In July 2020, the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) approved the establishment of the Working Group "Sustainable Lives: Food Choices as Politics and Lifestlye". Over its two and a half year duration, the Working Group analyzed how decisions regarding food consumption are embedded in and influenced by discourses on politics, identity and sustainability, as well as by other factors such as habits, social norms, and opportunity structures.</p>
<p>Background of the project</p>
<p>Climate change and other environmental and social problems are increasingly bringing the unsustainability of our current lifestyles to the fore. The research interest of the Working Group “Sustainable Lives” focusses on food choices as a case study of leading a more or less sustainable lifestyle. In comparison to other areas of human behavior, nutrition accounts for a high share of each person’s environmental impact. While experts and activists may, by and large, agree that eating less meat, more plants from more local, organic and fair production, wrapped in less plastic, and bought in portions that can actually be consumed rather than thrown away, would be a step towards a more sustainable way of life, this knowledge does not automatically translate into more sustainable behavior. In some countries and some sociocultural contexts, food choices may be changing, while, particularly in some emerging economies, it seems unclear whether society is heading towards more sustainable ways of life.</p>
<p>Were the objectives of the working group achieved or have the objectives changed during the funding period?</p>
<p>The objectives set in 2020 aimed at investigating the drivers of food choices and understanding the broader context of sustainable lifestyle decisions. Throughout the funding period, various topics related to these objectives were explored. Beyond food, the analysis extended to the impact of a green environment on residential choice and well-being. The group produced research papers regarding the influence of media and social ties on dietary choices (Brüggemann et al. 2022b, Hoppe & Kleinen-von Königslöw 2022, Kley et al. 2022); the identification of consumer segments for sustainable food consumption (Trübner et al. 2022); the examination of the current framing of food systems, climate futures and ecologically committed journalism in the media (Brüggemann et al. 2022a, Guenther et al. 2023, Hoppe & Kleinen-von Königslöw 2023);the influence of environmental factors on relocation decisions (Kley & Dovbishchuk 2021); and the exploration of motivations, ambivalence, voting behavior regarding meat consumption and animal welfare (Bruns & Perino 2021, Mechtenberg et al. 2024, Pauer et al. 2022, Perino & Schwickert 2023, Perino & Schwirplies 2022).</p>
<p>What is the significance of the results of the Working Group for research in this field?</p>
<p>We will probably only see the significance of the results in a few years' time. However, we can imagine that the following findings are taken up by specialist audiences and/or by policy makers.</p>
There is a consumer segment of meat eaters relying on cheap meat products, and these persons are probably hard to reach with awareness-raising campaigns (Trübner et al. 2022).
Vegetarians communicate more about food, making use of social media for both, news consumption and communication with their peer group (Kley et al. 2022).
For city dwellers, various aspects of a green living environment relate to increased life satisfaction; in young families, also moving intentions are reduced (Kley & Dovbishchuk 2021).
Clear communication of the intended behavioral impact of the meat tax is crucial for gaining public support (Perino & Schwickert 2023). The paper has, among others, been cited by papers published in Science, PLOS Climate, PLOS Medicine, in a report on sustainable food consumption published by the European Commission and has been widely received in the media, e.g. in the Science Media Center, The Times, Tagesspiegel, Focus, Deutschlandfunk Nova, Bayern 2, 3sat nano, Öko Test and others.
The social environment has a substantial impact on behavioral changes related to nutrition (Perino & Schwirplies 2022). The paper has been cited by papers published in journals of different disciplines such as Nature Food, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
The dissonance resulting from the simultaneous desire to eat meat and the concern about its consumption can lead to a motivation to reduce meat consumption, resulting in subsequent behavioral changes (Pauer et al. 2022). The paper has been cited by papers published in journals of different disciplines such as Appetite, Frontiers in Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Food Quality and Preference, and Journal of Environmental Psychology.
In countries with higher sustainability goals on a policy level, individuals are more aware and talk more about sustainability in everyday life discussions (Hoppe & Kleinen-von Königslöw 2022/2023).
Cultural contexts influence how food is covered in the media, and this influence has different accents in different countries (Brüggemann et al. 2022b).
An analysis of over 9.000 newspaper articles from print and online media shows a steady increase in the coverage of veganism in Germany since the 1990s, with a sharp rise during the 2010s. Veganism is discussed in a wide range of topics and mainly linked to well educated young women (Majewski 2023, IPrA Conference in Brussels).
It is important to consider region-specific future climate scenarios, as they can influence how people imagine the future and thus influence their current behavior (Guenther et al. 2023).
Different strategies, e.g. suggestions, recommendations or mandatory contributions, should be used to encourage environmental actions (Bruns & Perino 2021). The paper has been cited published in journals of different disciplines such as Food Policy, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
<p>What is the significance of the results for the sustainable development of society?</p>
<p>The insights gained from exploring media discourses on food choices, consumer segments of sustainable food consumption, motivations and voting behavior regarding meat consumption have practical implications for policymakers and practitioners. The findings can be used in the development of strategies and interventions that contribute to more sustainable practices. Some of our results have already been taken up in policy reports, e.g. by the European Commission, and have been discussed in the media (3sat, Focus) in the context of the proposal by Cem Özdemir, Federal Minster of Food and Agriculture to introduce a levy on meat to increase animal welfare. The results on meattaxation have also been taken up by the international media (e.g., The Times, Anthropocene).</p>
<p>You can find out more about the Working Group here.</p><p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-23190184-production2024-02-12T23:00:00ZCSS welcomes senior research fellow Prof. Vando Borghi<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23190267/img-9319-733x414-6dbf882c40f7266e1c2f98d11a8f00fdf1424477.jpg" /><p>The CSS is very proud to welcome Prof. Vando Borghi as a senior research fellow for the next two months.</p>
<p>Vando Borghi is Ph.D. Professor of Sociology of Economic processes, Work and Organization at the University of Bologna since. His research is concerned with the interaction between policies, institutions and social practices and is conducted on different empirical grounds. In recent years, his research has been mainly focused on the interrelationships between labour, infrastructure and capitalism. Moreover, he carries out research into the way public action, knowledge and citizens’ capability interact. He has been fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Avancées in Nantes and visiting scholar at Institut für Soziologie in Freiburg and at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires. He is Chief of the journal Sociologia del Lavoro. Among his publications are Research Handbook on Public Sociology (with L. Bifulco), Hybridisation of work and the platform informal revolution (with G. Peterlongo), The camp form and the experience infrastructures: A counter-fatal research perspective (in M. Cassani Simonetti and R. Mira); Capitalism of infrastructures and connectivity. Proposals for a critical sociology of the «world at home».</p>
Find out more about Prof. Borghi and his work here
<p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-23287346-production2024-02-06T23:00:00ZTanja Bogusz spricht über "Mensch und Meer – Wie erzählt man von einer Katastrophe ohne Ereignis?"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23396287/excursion-traversee-mont-saint-michel-1-733x414-1c0b32694de611b62aaaa8ed639dfef541937671.jpg" /><p>Seefahrergeschichten, Sturmfluten, Handelswege, Expeditionen ins Unbekannte: Die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Meer ist so alt wie die Menschheitsgeschichte selbst. Kein Wunder: Das Meer war schon lange da, bevor der Mensch zu einem relevanten Faktor für die erdgeschichtliche Entwicklung wurde. Über diese Themen spricht CSS-Mitglied Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz am 9. März um 11.30 Uhr beim Kölner Kongress 2024 zum Thema "Erzählen gegen die Krise". Außerdem diskutiert sie im Panel mit dem Titel "Die heiße Phase beginnt – Wie kann man durch Erzählen vom Denken der Krise ins Handeln kommen?". </p>
<p>Wann: 8. und 9. März 2024</p>
<p>Wo: Deutschlandradio, Raderberggürtel 40, 50968 Köln</p>
<p>Der Kölner Kongress wird organisiert von Deutschlandfunk und Deutschlandfunk Kultur. <br>Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.</p>
<p>Zum kompletten Programm</p>
<p>Zur Anmeldung</p><p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-23321094-production2024-01-31T23:00:00ZCSS welcomes senior research fellow Prof. YAMAMURA Nobuo<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23321212/fotoyamamura-733x414-f71357c2fc85931c3878c0f84d5e7ef7091b4479.jpg" /><p>The CSS is very proud to welcome Prof. YAMAMURA Nobuo as a senior research fellow until the end of March 2026.</p>
<p>YAMAMURA Nobuo is Professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo, specializing in financial systems and sustainable finance. With a background in the theory of money and banking history, he researched banking business at the Free University Berlin and comparative financial systems and supervision at the Financial Services Agency of the Japanese Government. He has been considering how to adapt the financial system for humane living in the aging society (financial gerontology) and now also against the climate change in the Anthropocene era. His interdisciplinary approach integrates insights from critical economics, social systems theory, behavioral economics, business studies, pedagogy, and law. He has been a member of the governing board for the Tokyo branch of the Japan Scientists' Association and currently serves as a board member of the Innovation Fusion Society of Japan. Beyond research, he has practical experience supervising a local nursing home, the university library, a students' flat and collective housings, and reforestation projects in San Paulo.</p>
Find out more about Prof. YAMAMURA and his work here
<p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-23100058-production2024-01-11T23:00:00ZWhat is 'resilience' - and what could it be? Lessons from theory and practice<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/17302717/ludovic-charlet-on-unsplash-733x414-ef9abbcaf79eb9c540f6a869b7828a23b2e07a07.jpg" /><p>We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Christer Pursiainen (Professor of Societal Security and Safety at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Research Fellow at the CSS) will contribute to our Lecture Series with a talk dealing with "What is 'resilience' - and what could it be? Lessons from theory and practice".</p>
<p>When: Wednesday, January 24th, 6:00 PM (Berlin time)<br></p>
<p>Where: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Room 1021, 20354 Hamburg. </p>
<p>The talk and the Q&A will be in English.</p>
<p>Abstract:</p>
<p>Resilience is the buzzword of our time. While the term has a long history, it only gained academic popularity in the 2010s. Currently, resilience is studied in several disciplines, and it has numerous practical applications. This has led to definitional ambiguities about the meaning of resilience in different contexts.</p>
<p>This talk provides a concise overview of the concept of resilience, its history and today’s applications. Prof. Pursiainen presents major developments in resilience research during the last two decades by examining societal, organizational, technological, ecological, macroeconomical, and psychological approaches to resilience.</p>
<p>Among other things, the talk addresses a watershed division in resilience theories, namely the question of whether resilience is about recovery after an external shock or adaptation to change. Further, the talk focuses in particular on the question of whether resilience can be measured and how. Finally, it raises the issue of how transdisciplinary learning between different resilience concepts might provide a key to develop the field further in its variety of application areas. For discussion, not addressed in the current talk but rather as a future task, it is proposed to discuss in the gathering how the concepts of sustainability and resilience are related to each other.</p>
<p>You can find the poster for the talk here [pdf].</p>
<p>You can find more up to date information on the lecture series here.</p><p>Photo: unsplash</p>NAGR-fakws-23092578-production2024-01-10T23:00:00ZStefan Aykut on COP28, multilateralism and the global climate movement<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/12652066/aykut-733x414-1c3c6afd1fc20eee4c8dc7f0f647c56791694195.jpg" /><p>CSS director Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut has been interviewed by Fink.Hamburg. </p>
<p>Read the full interview here [in German].</p><p>Photo: UHH/Ohme</p>NAGR-fakws-23046739-production2024-01-01T23:00:00ZNew CSS Working Group "Doing Theory – From Where and What For? A Backpackers’ Guide to Knowledge Production" launched<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23046527/14904743727-7cd64a73da-o-733x414-1ea623c2efd12ebfb880a423b9d34f8127423f2c.jpg" /><p>The Center for Sustainable Society Research is pleased to announce the launch of a new working group!</p>
<p>The working group titled "Doing Theory – From Where and What For? A Backpackers’ Guide to Knowledge Production" explores the ‘backpackers perspective’ on travel by focusing on the three themes of knowledge production, networks, and sustainability. It aims at unpacking the ‘encounter’ in these travels at the intersections of positionality, privilege and identity; ideas and potentialities on sustainability; and academic data collection and politics of legitimacy.</p>
<p>The members of the working group are Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder, Dr. Aastha Tyagi, Prof. Dr. Antje Wiener und Dr. Jan Wilkens.</p>
You can find out more about the working group here.
Find out more about the idea of working groups at the CSS here.
<p>Photo: Andrey (akk_rus) via flickr</p>NAGR-fakws-23207118-production2023-12-20T23:00:00ZWhat is "Conviviality"?<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22993481/2023-10-26-28-wien-gsis-adloff-733x414-9a092c0f658be07215be84cd71ef5287bcb5a14f.jpg" />Interview with Frank Adloff at GSIS Talks “UTOPIA(S) RELOADED
<p>In October 2023 the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS) organised its first major event: “Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation”. For three days scientists and activists alike discussed the role of utopian/dystopian imaginaries of the future in transforming global risks. In intensive debates visions of how a sustainable living could be possible took shape.</p>
<p>The event was accompanied by a video team, creating a summary video and several interviews with speakers from different disciplines. In this short clip, Karolin Pichler and Patrick Hagn from GSIS’ project team talked to Frank Adloff about the concept of “conviviality”:</p>
<p>What does convivialism/conviviality mean?<br> Does it concern only human conduct or does it also concern the relationship with nature?<br> What about the relationship with technology?</p>
<p>Here you can find out more about Frank Adloff’s work: convivialism.org/</p>
<p>See also the summary video of the GSIS event: vimeo.com/890635204</p>
<p>Interview with GSIS’ Director Wolfgang Hofkirchner about the event: gsis.at/2023/12/02/utopias-reloaded-talks-iii-call-for-a-shared-future-an-interview/</p>
<p>The event’s programme: gsis.at/meetings/utopias-reloaded-2/</p><p>Photo: GSIS Institute Wien</p>NAGR-fakws-22905394-production2023-11-29T23:00:00ZNeues CEN Klima Booklet<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/36383636/booklet-13-cover-733x414-d532389b5e2452a95b1846838b3403daf1cdf622.jpg" /><p>Frisch aus dem Druck: Das neue Klima Booklet ist da! Zum 13. Mal geben Forscherinnen und Forscher des CEN und des Exzellenzclusters CLICCS der Universität Hamburg spannende Einblicke in ihre Arbeit. Das Booklet ist online als PDF sowie als Printausgabe auf Deutsch und Englisch erhältlich. </p>
<p>Wie können Unternehmen klimaneutral wirtschaften? Wieso ist Indigenes Wissen so wichtig für den Klimaschutz? Und wie zieht Gesteinsmehl CO2 aus der Atmosphäre? In kurzen und leicht verständlichen Texten berichten die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus ihrer Forschung.</p>
<p>Die Beiträge stammen aus einer Kooperationsserie mit dem Hamburger Abendblatt. Unter dem Titel „Neues aus der Klimaforschung“ erscheint dort einmal im Monat ein Artikel über die aktuelle Forschungsarbeit am CEN. Zehn dieser Texte sind in einem Band zusammengefasst.</p>
<p>Die Booklets können einzeln oder in höherer Stückzahl zum Auslegen und Verteilen bei Veranstaltungen per E-Mail bei Stefanie Janssen bestellt werden. Alle bisher erschienenen Booklets sind hier abrufbar.</p>
<p>Viel Spaß beim Lesen!</p>
<p>CEN Klima Booklet Band 13 (PDF)</p><p>Photo: CEN/UHH</p>NAGR-fakws-22871936-production2023-11-28T23:00:00Z28. Weltklimakonferenz: „Die Gräben werden sichtbarer werden“<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/uni/22069960/prof-aykut-733x414-26a58d40991ef6b48295c2ae75dd3a497dc65509.jpg" />Am 30. November 2023 beginnt die 28. Weltklimakonferenz in Dubai. Der Soziologieprofessor Stefan Aykut erforscht bereits seit 2008, wie auf Klimakonferenzen um Lösungen gerungen wird, aber auch, Erfolgsmeldungen inszeniert werden. Seiner Meinung nach stoßen die Möglichkeiten, positive Narrative zu erzeugen, in diesem Jahr an ihre Grenzen. <p>Photo: UHH/Ohme</p>NAGR-fakws-22792643-production2023-11-16T23:00:00ZWie Obstplantagen im Alten Land den Klimawandel bremsen können<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/uni/21963125/obstbau-733x414-659b4a39a79009ce2b157a463acd6e69d347adc7.jpg" />In 2023 fördert die Universität Hamburg 13 Forschungsprojekte aus Mitteln ihres Transferfonds. Die diesjährige Ausschreibung zielte insbesondere auf Projekte, die eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen wissenschaftlichen und nichtwissenschaftlichen Akteurinnen und Akteuren initiieren. Wir stellen eines der Forschungsvorhaben vor.
<p>Photo: Anna-Louisa Wriedt</p>NAGR-fakws-22748590-production2023-11-14T23:00:00ZRecording of lecture by Louis Kotzé online<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22748676/thumbnail-kotze-733x414-c07bd3a45e2b1dabb75a415034a0f857b1105d21.jpg" /><p>We are very pleased to announce that the video of the lecture on "Environmental Law After Sustainability" for the CSS Lecture Series "After Sustainability" by Louise Kotzé (Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK) is now online!</p>
<p>You can watch the lecture here or directly below.</p>
<p>Abstract: In this lecture, Louis Kotzé talks about how humans, through our social regulatory institutions, consciously, but most often unconsciously, contribute to the deepening planetary crisis instead of addressing it. Many of these institutions, such as law, and specifically environmental law, have been created to protect nature. But through its cornerstone principle of sustainable development that environmental law fully embraces and promotes, law as an instrument to direct human behavior has become unable to keep humans within the limits of the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space. He will attempt to expose the principle of sustainable development for the predatory, neoliberal, capitalist principle that it is, and will show that the major paradigm shift we urgently require to confront the planetary crisis will ultimately depend on unconditionally rejecting this principle in favor or far more radical principles centered on notions of care, humility, and co-existence that collectively recognize and respond to the vulnerability of the entire Earth system. The talk concludes by briefly exploring the emerging notion of ‘Earth system law’, which offers a promising framework to reimagine a post-sustainability alternative for law in the Anthropocene.</p>
<p>You can find the flyer for the talk here [pdf].</p>
<p>You can find more up to date information on the lecture series here.</p><p>Photo: CSS</p>NAGR-fakws-22739347-production2023-11-13T23:00:00ZHow do land use conflicts escalate? How is the rewetting of moors negotiated? What are the ideas of community in villages? Or what role does voluntary work play in rural areas?<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22739403/img-0783-733x414-ebf429ecf1016e885d979677dd2774972735fb08.jpg" />PhD Colloquium "Rural Studies"
<p>How do land use conflicts escalate? How is the rewetting of moors negotiated? What are the ideas of community in villages? Or what role does voluntary work play in rural areas?</p>
<p>Diverse questions like these were lively discussed at the PhD colloquium "Rural Studies" in Vechta on 05 and 06 October 2023. 23 PhD students with different disciplinary backgrounds from all over Germany took part in the workshop at the University of Vechta to exchange ideas on qualitative research on rural areas.</p>
<p>In cooperation with the Vechta Institute of Sustainability Transformation in Rural Areas (VISTRA) and with the kind support of the CSS Hamburg, the event was organised by Franziska Lengerer (Thünen Institute for Living Conditions in Rural Areas, Braunschweig), Eva Rahe (University of Vechta), Hauke Feddersen (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg) and Vincent Keldenich (Cultural Geography, University of Bamberg).</p>
<p>The contributions are documented in an abstract volume.</p>
<p>In 2024, there will be a follow-up event, probably in Bamberg, to consolidate the cooperation on issues of qualitative social research in rural areas.</p>
<p>Contact: rural.studies@proton.me</p><p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-22673777-production2023-11-06T23:00:00ZNew CSS Working Group "Infrastructuring the Commons" launched<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22673639/pa125426-733x414-c04b25094eac62a6d2bde71694fbf6c8e883466b.jpg" /><p>The Center for Sustainable Society Research is pleased to announce the launch of a new working group!</p>
<p>The working group titled "Infrastructuring the Commons" pursues the overarching questions of how and by whom a sustainable and equitable or convivial use and governance of the commons can be practically infrastructured and under which infrastructural conditions new forms of commoning emerge. Analytically, it follows a relational perspective that views both infrastructures and commons as processual, fragile, and often contested webs of relationships between people and their non-human environment.</p>
<p>The members of the working group are Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad, Dr. Philipp Degens und Prof. Dr. Stefan C. Aykut.</p>
You can find out more about the working group here.
Find out more about the idea of working groups at the CSS here.
<p>Photo: private</p>NAGR-fakws-22739510-production2023-11-02T23:00:00ZBeteiligung an Lokalen Zukunftswerkstätten<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22713770/logo-lokalkraft-300x225-733x414-2-1479a840fe819fd8b6b2200861c2cf90f6503879.jpg" /><p>Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut beteiligte sich an der Stakeholder-Tagung am 03. November 2023 im </p>
Projekt lokalkraft
Lokale Zukunftswerkstätten. Die Transformatiove Kraft für ein zukunftfähiges Hamburg
<p>Die Auftakttagung am 3. November galt der Vernetzung mit ausgesuchten strategischen Partner*innen zur Reflexion der Rolle, der Gelingensbedingungen und Herausforderungen von Lokalen Zukunftswerkstätten.</p>
<p>Der Lenkungskreis aus Zukunftsforum Blankenese, Zukunftswerkstatt Lokstedt, Zukunftsforum Rissen, Grünes Billstedt (Stiftung Kulturpalast Hamburg) sowie der Zukunftsrat Hamburg, die Patriotische Gesellschaft von 1765, Mehr Demokratie sowie Klimawoche Hamburg luden Vertreter*innen von Lokalen Zukunftswerkstätten und Expert*innen aus Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Politik zu einer Auftakttagung ein, um insbesondere folgende Fragen zu diskutieren:</p>
<p>Was können Lokale Zukunftswerkstätten zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation beitragen?</p>
<p>Was sind Gelingensbedingungen für Lokale Zukunftswerkstätten?</p>
<p>Mit welchen Aktivitäten, Ressourcen und Erfahrungen kann Ihre Organisation und können weitere Akteure aus Ziviligesellschaft, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Verwaltung, Politik, Kultur und Bildung zur konkreten Unterstützung von Lokalen Zukunftswerkstätten beitragen?</p>
<p>Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut steuerte eine Short Key Note unter dem Titel bei: Globale Klimakrise – lokales Handeln: Herausforderungen & Gelingensbedinungen aus Sicht der sozial-ökologischen Transformationsforschung</p><p>Photo: lokalkraft hamburg</p>NAGR-fakws-22739489-production2023-10-25T22:00:00ZVorlesung für alle: Ausweg aus der Klimakrise oder doch nur heiße Luft?<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22713506/230920-vorlesungfueralle-aykut-portrait-733x414-fb0e045e417b9aa75a3ea5593e2b7a961d2c25f1.jpg" /><p>Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut hat am Donnerstag, den 26.10.2023, um 19 Uhr, im Haus 73 (Schulterblatt 73) eine Vorlesung für alle gehalten:</p>
Ausweg aus der Klimakrise oder doch nur heiße Luft? Was bringen globale Klimaverhandlungen?
<p>Obwohl sich Staats- und Regierungschefs, Unternehmen und Zivilgesellschaft jährlich auf den Klimakonferenzen der Vereinten Nationen treffen, steigen die Treibhausgasemissionen immer weiter. Das Ziel des Pariser Klimaabkommens von 2015, die globale Erwärmung auf 1,5°C zu begrenzen, rückt daher in immer weitere Ferne. Sind die globalen Klimaverhandlungen also bloße Debattierclubs? Oder werden dort doch Lösungswege aufgezeigt und Dynamiken angestoßen? Anhand konkreter Beispiele der letzten Klimakonferenzen COP26 in Glasgow und COP27 in Sharm-El-Sheikh gehen wir diesen Fragen nach und wagen auch einen Ausblick auf die COP28 in … Dubai (!)</p><p>Photo: Aykut</p>NAGR-fakws-22562915-production2023-10-11T22:00:00Z2 November 2023 Housewarming event of the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS)<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/7795356/key-visual-733x414-346a93ca7a28e570e8944ea6b856c442fff7d4d4.jpg" /><p>The Center for Sustainable Society Research celebrates the inauguration of its new premises at Max-Brauer-Allee 60 and cordially invites you to a lecture [in English] as part of the CSS Lecture Series "After Sustainability", followed by a reception with finger food and drinks!</p>
<p>Keynote Lecture<br>Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (NWU)<br>„Environmental Law After Sustainability“</p>
<p>In this lecture, Louis Kotzé, Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK, talks about how humans, through our social regulatory institutions, consciously, but most often unconsciously, contribute to the deepening planetary crisis instead of addressing it. Many of these institutions, such as law, and specifically environmental law, have been created to protect nature. But through its cornerstone principle of sustainable development that environmental law fully embraces and promotes, law as an instrument to direct human behavior has become unable to keep humans within the limits of the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space. He will attempt to expose the principle of sustainable development for the predatory, neoliberal, capitalist principle that it is, and will show that the major paradigm shift we urgently require to confront the planetary crisis will ultimately depend on unconditionally rejecting this principle in favor or far more radical principles centered on notions of care, humility, and co-existence that collectively recognize and respond to the vulnerability of the entire Earth system. The talk concludes by briefly exploring the emerging notion of ‘Earth system law’, which offers a promising framework to reimagine a post-sustainability alternative for law in the Anthropocene.</p>
<p>With a greeting by the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit [in German].</p>
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<p>The poster of the event is available here. The schedule is available here [in German only].</p>
<p>Date: 02.11.2023<br>Time: 18:30 to 20:00 o'clock, afterwards reception with finger food and drinks<br>Venue: Max-Brauer-Allee 60, 20765 Hamburg, lecture hall 030</p>
<p>*** German Version ***</p>
<p>Das Center for Sustainable Society Research feiert die Einweihung der neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Max-Brauer-Allee 60 und lädt herzlich ein zu einem Vortrag im Rahmen der CSS Lecture Series „After Sustainability“ sowie im Anschluss zu Empfang mit Fingerfood und Getränken!</p>
<p>Keynote Lecture<br>Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (NWU)<br>„Environmental Law After Sustainability“</p>
<p>In this lecture, Louis Kotzé, Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK, talks about how humans, through our social regulatory institutions, consciously, but most often unconsciously, contribute to the deepening planetary crisis instead of addressing it. Many of these institutions, such as law, and specifically environmental law, have been created to protect nature. But through its cornerstone principle of sustainable development that environmental law fully embraces and promotes, law as an instrument to direct human behavior has become unable to keep humans within the limits of the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space. He will attempt to expose the principle of sustainable development for the predatory, neoliberal, capitalist principle that it is, and will show that the major paradigm shift we urgently require to confront the planetary crisis will ultimately depend on unconditionally rejecting this principle in favor or far more radical principles centered on notions of care, humility, and co-existence that collectively recognize and respond to the vulnerability of the entire Earth system. The talk concludes by briefly exploring the emerging notion of ‘Earth system law’, which offers a promising framework to reimagine a post-sustainability alternative for law in the Anthropocene.</p>
<p>Das Plakat zur Veranstaltung ist hier verfügbar. Der Ablaufplan ist hier verfügbar.</p>
<p>Datum: 02.11.2023<br>Uhrzeit: 18:30 bis 20:00 Uhr, im Anschluss Empfang mit Finger Food und Getränken<br>Veranstaltungsort: Max-Brauer-Allee 60, 20765 Hamburg, Hörsaal 030</p><p>Photo: CSS</p>NAGR-fakws-22381630-production2023-09-13T22:00:00ZCSS Director Frank Adloff guest on "Impulse stiften"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22381600/priscilla-du-preez-k8xygbw4ahg-unsplash-733x414-eb7acf176b1b5c5e93c2068bf9b0ba50cf3708cb.jpg" /><p>Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff commented on critical aspects of foundations and billionaire philantropy as well as the futures of sustainability on "Impulse stiften". </p>
<p>Watch the recorded event here or read a transcript here [in German only].</p>
<p>Find more podcasts and videos of CSS members here.</p><p>Photo: unsplash.com</p>