Environmental change and degradation pose significant threats to the sustainability, health, and prosperity of societies and ecosystems around the world. In parallel, wider socio-economic conditions, such as poverty and inequality, financial and geopolitical instability, magnify both the vulnerability of societies to environmental change and pressures on the environment and ecosystems.
This workshop, run jointly by the Resilient Futures and Inclusive and Prosperous Futures Challenge Areas, seeks to bring together UoM researchers from across a range of disciplines to share and discuss research to understand and enhance resilience of people and nature to environmental change in different areas around the world. A core goal of the workshop will be to identify and initiate new collaborations and working groups, motivated by growing support from UKRI and other funders for interdisciplinary research on resilience and environmental change in the UK and globally.
Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 : Arrival and coffee
10:15 – 10:30 : Introductions and aims
10:30 – 11:30 : Short invited presentations
11:30 – 12:30 : Lunch and Networking
12:30 – 13:40 : World Cafe Workshop Section
13:40 – 14:00: Wrap up and next steps
Who can attend?
The workshop is open to all UoM academics of any career stage, and PGR’s and ECR’s are encouraged to attend. Relevant areas within the workshop’s overarching theme of ‘Resilience in Socio-Environmental Systems’ include but are not limited to research focused on resilience theories, assessments of the drivers of environmental change and resilience, and/or evaluation of adaptation and mitigation solutions to sustainably and equitably support resilience of social and environmental systems.
For more information, please contact Tim Foster (Sustainable Futures Lead for Resilient Futures) at: timothy.foster@manchester.ac.uk
