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General news | 2023-12-14

Centre strengthens its research portfolio with Formas grants worth SEK 25 million

Research teams from the Centre have successfully applied for grants from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development. They receive SEK 25 million across four research projects, as announced in November 2023

Research news | 2021-04-14

Exploring a sense of belonging and care

Vanessa Masterson reflects on why learning more about people’s attachment to places can bring about important change

Research news | 2020-08-05

In South Africa, access to urban green areas remains a White privilege

Racial segregation during Apartheid has influenced the distribution of and access to green infrastructure

Research news | 2020-05-11

If you want better conservation, you need to recognize and engage with local experts

Why mobilizing different types of knowledges creates opportunities for long-term sustainable governance

Research news | 2020-03-24

Towards a more inclusive valuation of nature

Researchers and practitioners present a vision and strategy to better include different worldviews on the value of nature. All with a little help of the octopus

Research news | 2019-10-24

Complex changes, collaborative solutions

Combining knowledge from local communities and policymakers holds the key to better land management for rural communities under a rapidly changing climate. That is if talk is replaced by action

Research news | 2019-08-06

Nurturing nature

New research explores how environmental stewardship attitudes are influenced by the benefits humans receive from their environment

Research news | 2019-05-17

Making sense of place

Special feature in Sustainability Science illustrates how ‘sense of place’ as a concept can contribute more effectively to understanding environmental change

Research news | 2018-09-18

Stewardship: a user’s manual

Why the concept of stewardship offers a platform for collaboration and dialogue between actors, even with differing perspectives

Research news | 2018-08-30

Capturing life through a different lens

Scientific method using photographs helps capture local expressions of human wellbeing among vulnerable communities in Kenya and South Africa

Research news | 2018-01-24

From conceptual la-la-land to rigorous sustainability science

Former and current PhD students from SRC propose a new framework to help early-career sustainability scholars to become “undisciplinary”

Research news | 2017-10-01

Out of place?

New paper explores links between conservation, development and sense of place on the Wild Coast of South Africa

Research news | 2017-05-30

A better sense of place

Emerging research on people’s attachment to places can unlock capacity to better deal with change

Research news | 2016-11-29

How many words does a picture really say?

By putting a camera in people’s hands centre PhD student Vanessa Masterson listens to their stories

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