Broad Sustainability
While this transition to a more sustainable socio-ecological system has an important environmental dimension, the societal challenge is much broader: it is about introducing a long-term perspective in the reorganization of societies, organizations and individual lives. This is closely related to the three other domains: managing technological risks (e.g., AI), creating social stability and building resilient capacity for vulnerable regions. These challenges need to be tackled not only on the political level, but in a wide range of fields, such as organizations, employment, behavior, culture, law, education and technology.
The main goal of this domain is to examine the conditions that will make society turn towards a long-term perspective. This cannot just be approached from one discipline or theme but requires going beyond current boundaries to find innovative approaches and solutions.
Research projects
- Minimizing the environmental impact of (micro)plastics by integrated modelling of supply and source-to-impact chains
- Social learning and the climate crisis. Small-scale food production as an inspiration for a sustainable global food supply chain?
- Better tools, less conflicts. Value pluralism and social learning for better biodiversity decisions. Lessons for the private and the public sectors
- Drop by Drop: Facilitating the Energy-saving Behavior of Smart House/Office Inhabitants using AI and Gamification