About

TransMod explores why and how transformative change of social-ecological systems emerges or why it often does not happen. The project brings together researchers from the natural and social sciences and the humanities, engages with practice partners, to jointly develop understanding and theories about how complex social-ecological change unfolds.

Aim

The aim is to further knowledge and understanding of how novel ideas, capacities, practices and system trajectories emerge and take root within existing socio-political, historical and ecological contexts.

Approach

TransMod will investigate processes that enable or prevent transformative change by learning from past, present and future transformation processes.

We apply complexity and relational perspectives to study historical and ongoing process of transformative change in ways that account for the complex, entangled, social-ecological and political nature of transformation, to advance transformations theory.

Methods

We use multi-methods approaches that combine empirical research, transdisciplinary engagement, and agent-based and dynamical systems modelling, learning about how, if, or when interplay exists.

We will collaborate with practice partners on aspects of their transformative change process.

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