This project report is focused on social learning and contains the workshop proceedings from “Social Learning and Sustainability: Exploring Critical Issues in Relation to Environmental Change and Governance” held on June 1–2, 2010.
The report is a joint collaboration between Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Social learning is the focus of applied and increasingly interdisciplinary scholarship in environmental education, climate change adaptation, natural resource governance and ecosystem management. Despite interest in the concept, important questions remain about the use and application of social learning in these contexts and its relevance to the challenge of global social ecological change.
The workshop provided a unique opportunity for individuals approaching social learning in diverse ways to interact, share insights, ideas and critiques through keynote and speed presentations, open space and small group discussion sessions, and at an interactive plenary. Keynote and speed presentations focused on:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Swedish Foundation for Environmental Research (Mistra) through the Swedish Research Programme on Climate, Impacts and Adaptation (Mistra-SWECIA) Programme.
Feature / SEI York researchers share their enthusiasm for all things citizen science.
Media coverage / SEI’s Alphayo Lutta emphasizes that one way Kenya can reduce its vulnerability to global oil disruptions is to give greater attention to its bioeconomy.
Event on 12 May / In this third CHILI seminar, Sarah West will talk about citizen science and its growing role in understanding the environments we live in.
