Society for Social-Ecological Systems

Doughnut 3.0 is here | DEAL The Doughnut, updated, now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉

Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century.

#DoughnutEconomics
Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in mapping and monitoring the state of biodiversity in their lands and territories. 🌎🔍🌿

Hear stories of the work by the Ogeik people in Kenya👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq...

#IndigenousPeoples #mapping #localcommunities

🌿 Are you passionate about creating sustainable food systems in urban environments?
Then join the official side event from the Swiss Youth Delegation at the @worldfoodforum.bsky.social, Rome: 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
More information 👉 t.ly/bU2xc
Register now 👉 t.ly/lBmkW

📣 Upcoming webinar on arts-based methods in SES research 🌱

The "Transformative Arts-Based Methods" working group in the "Advancing SES Methods" thematic stream invites you to their launch event.

🗓️ 26 September 2025
🕑 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CAT/CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/mphb3d75

📣 Upcoming webinar on interventions to reduce poverty while conserving the environment 🌱

The "Collaborative Governance" thematic stream working group invites you to a webinar with Adriana Molina-Garzón.

🗓️ 24 September 2025
🕑 09:00 Arizona (UTC-7)
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/629xw8ur

📣 Upcoming panel discussion on measuring resilience across research fields and scales 🌱

This panel brings together experts to examine how resilience can be measured across research fields and scales.

🗓️ 22 September 2025
🕑 09:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 AEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/y5t3x32m

An illustration showing Earth from space with a focus on North and South America, rendered in blue and white tones. Two curved lines above the planet represent the ozone layer. The background features a light blue sky with small birds silhouetted in the distance. There is a quote from António Guterres, UN Secretary General, stating "TODAY, THE OZONE LAYER IS HEALING." and below "This achievement reminds us that when nations heed the warnings of science, progress is possible." The IPBES logo appears in the bottom right corner. The image uses a minimalist design style with clean lines and a calming color palette.

40 years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action. Today, the ozone layer is healing.
—António Guterres, UN Secretary General

On #WorldOzoneDay, let's recommit to preserving the ozone layer for future generations. 🌎

📣 Upcoming webinar on human-nature connectedness 🌱

Join this webinar on Nature Connectedness methods and measures with Emily Flies and Kate Sollis from the University of Tasmania, Australia.

🗓️ Tuesday, 16 September 2025
🕑 08:30 (UTC+2)
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5bufxmnw

📣 Upcoming webinar on the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative 🌱

This introduction to the SoGA initiative is organised by the "Seeds and Plural Pathways to Transformative Change" working group.

📅 19 September 2025
⏰ 14:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2)
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/3pt58hvs

🌍 The #ERL Focus Issue on Human–Earth System Interactions under Climate Change is now complete!

Explore research on how human activities interact with Earth system processes, plus a closing editorial from the Guest Editors:
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
#ClimateChange #OpenAccess

Become a reviewer

🌍💡Contribute to the scholarly community as a peer reviewer. Whether an #EarlyCareerResearcher or seasoned expert, your insights matter. ✨Start your journey today publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/vo...
#PeerReview #ScienceCommunity

🌍🎭 Explore how arts & sustainability research connect!

📅 9/9 – Panel at our offices on how the arts can transform conflicts, democratise research, and spark imagination and care.
📅 10/9 – Full screening of the play Unruly at Zita cinema (fully booked, waitlist open).

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⛈️ Researchers from @unibe.ch & @ethz.ch have found #ClimateChange is intensifying supercell thunderstorms in Europe. With a global temperature increase of 3°C, these powerful #storms are also expected to occur more frequently, especially in the Alpine region.

🔗 bit.ly/3URKbgH

#OurChangingMountains

📣 Upcoming webinar on collaborative governance 📣

Join us for the webinar, "He Au Hou: Exploring new policy options for adaptive co-management of coastal fisheries in Hawaiʻi", with Amber Datta.

📅 August 28, 2025
⏰ 11:00am Arizona / 8:00am Hawaiʻi
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/2exs5avr

💬 TC/ESG25: Panel talk on the intertwined relationships between transformations and conflicts 💬

In the session, we will explore how we find imagination, conflict, and transformations becoming entangled.

🗓️ 21 August 2025
🕟 13:00-14:30 (SAST)
📍 Marathon A, TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/yrmpdr6r

💬 TC/ESG25: Interactive dialogue on understanding how crises, disasters, or systemic risks affect the potential for (positive) transformative change in a system 💬

🗓️ 21 August 2025
🕟 10:30-12:00 (SAST)
📍 Gala B Venue, TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2ymsxhzu

💬 TC/ESG25 Conference: Interactive dialogue on using futures visioning, collaborative workshops, and games to investigate alternative, positive futures 💬

🗓️ 20 August 2025
🕟 14:40-16:10 (SAST)
📍 Gala A Venue, TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TCESG-SoGA

#TCESG25 #SocSES

✨ TC/ESG25 Conference Arts & Wellbeing Programme: Two performances of UNRULY 🎭

First performance:
🗓️ 19 August 2025
🕥 18:30 (SAST)
📍 Ballroom
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TCESG25-UNRULY

Second performance:
🗓️ 20 August 2025
🕥 08:30 (SAST)
📍 Ballroom
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TCESG-UNRULY2

The social-ecological systems field is evolving rapidly, but our methods toolkit often lags behind. How do we study transformation while simultaneously creating it? How do we bridge the research-practice divide with approaches that are both rigorous and revolutionary? Join this session for an interactive exploration of methods that do not just observe change, but actively create it. The session brings together academics, including Andrea Marais-Potgieter, Fikile Nxumalo, and Dylan McGarry, who are rewriting the rulebook on how research can become transformation. Following the panel discussion, participants will rotate through focused discussions on three frontier methodologies: • Projective enabling techniques • Method-making and diffractive approaches • Empatheatre methodology

💬 TC/ESG25: Interactive dialogue on bridging the research-practice divide with approaches and methods that are both rigorous and revolutionary 💬

🗓️ 20 August 2025
🕟 16:30-18:00 (SAST)
📍 Centenary Room, TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TC-ESG-SES-M...

💬 TC/ESG25: Interactive dialogue on navigating the complex landscape of place-based research 💬

⚖️ How do we navigate the tensions between rigour, community relevance, and real-world impact?

🗓️ 19 August 2025
🕟 10:30-12:00 (SAST)
📍 Centenary Room, TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TC-ESG-PBR

TC/ESG25 Conference: Interactive dialogue on SocSES and advancing SES research Interactive Dialogue: "The Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES): Advancing transformative SES research for just and sustainable futures" Wednesday, 20 August 2025 16:30-18:00 (South Africa Standard Time) Ballroom (Plenary), TC/ESG25, Johannesburg, South Africa

💬 TC/ESG25: Interactive dialogue on SocSES and advancing SES research 💬

Join this session to co-develop strategies for advancing SES research, specifically within the context of SocSES.

🗓️ 20 August 2025
🕟 16:30-18:00 (SAST)
📍 Ballroom (Plenary), TC/ESG25
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/TC-ESG-SocSES

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI!

Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...

📣 Upcoming short course 📣

We are excited to offer the "Resilience science and climate change" short course with the Resilience Alliance.

🎓 Masters & PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
🗓️ 27-31 October 2025
📍 Online
📋 Apply by 5 September 2025

ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9mbkax

Ecology and Society is seeking to appoint new Subject Editors to join the team. Apply now to help shape the SES field.

📝 Ecology and Society is seeking Subject Editors 📝

The leading SES journal and flagship journal for SocSES is seeking to appoint new Subject Editors to join their team.

ℹ️ How to apply: tinyurl.com/4hsrkjvz

🌱 Help shape the SES field and learn more about the editorial and publishing processes!

Welcome home to SocSES – a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research!

Over 40 researchers have come together to launch this new home for collaboration, and introduce SocSES in a new paper in Ecology and Society.

Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

🌱🌍✨ Introducing the SocSES Transdisciplinary Place-Based Research thematic stream ✨🌍🌱

You are invited to contribute your ideas and share what you are interested in when it comes to the theme of transdisciplinary place-based research here: tinyurl.com/yrb7tc9t

ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/57u9h4bb

📚 Essential Resource for SES Researchers!
The SES Research Methods website is a key companion to The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems.
🔑 Explore methods, case studies & datasets: sesmethods.org
🔍 Check the Handbook: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Early-Career Hub TEA WITH TREES #1 – 19 June 2025 Join us for the first social pop-up activity organized through the SocSES Early-Career Hub! The first TEA WITH TREES will be held on Thursday, 19 June 2025 at 16:00 Central African Time/Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). Register to attend the event. The main purpose of this get-together is for the participants to meet other early-career professionals in a relaxed virtual space. As tree nerds, we are also keen to get to know your tree friends from around the world! So, during this session, you will be invited to introduce yourself and your research interests, as well as a tree that you have befriended before we meet. See the very simple instructions for how to prepare before the session below (instructions will also be shared in your confirmation email after you sign up). In preparation for the meeting, we want you to: 1. Identify a tree in your neighborhood / close to work / another place that you pass through regularly in your everyday life. If you already have a tree that you like, pick them! (We welcome you to use a broad definition of ‘tree’). 2. During the days leading up to the meeting, visit the tree and spend some time with it. Befriend it. Observe and reflect: What does it look like? What kind of life does it seem to have had? Which species is it? How does it make you feel? Etc. 3. If you are able to, take a photo of your tree friend and be prepared to share the photo with the other participants in the meeting (i.e. have it available to screen-share on your computer). 4. Join the meeting with a time-of-day-appropriate tree-related drink (examples: juices from fruits that grow on trees, drinks made from leaves from trees/shrubs, drinks made from tree-growing nuts… we welcome broad definitions on what ‘tree-related’ is here too). Register to attend the event.

📣 Upcoming event for early-career professionals 🌲🌳🌴

Join us for the first "TEA WITH TREES" session organized through the SocSES Early-Career Hub by tree nerds, @hamiltonjac.bsky.social and Katja Malmborg!

🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏰ 16:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2)
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/3yk4hv8y

Join us for the next edition of the SES Methods Bazaar, during which researchers and students will share their experiences using the following SES research methods: ❇️ Scenario development ❇️ PhotoVoice ❇️ Resilience assessment 🗓️ Thursday, 19 June 2025 ⏰ 13:00 – 14:00 Central African Time/Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) 📍 Hybrid (Online/Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 🔗 Register to attend: https://lnkd.in/diAuc32C SES Methods Bazaar is a speed talk-style session during which researchers and students present their contributions to the SES Methods website and answer questions about their chosen SES research method. These sessions facilitate knowledge cross-fertilisation and experience sharing among students, researchers, and the broader network of SES scholars while nurturing existing relationships and encouraging new ones within our SES Methods community of practice. ℹ️ Learn more about SES Methods here: https://sesmethods.org/ The SES Methods Bazaar is organised by the SES Research Methods Community of Practice working group within the Advancing SES Methods thematic stream.

📣 Upcoming event: SES Methods Bazaar 🎤

Researchers will share their experiences using the following research methods:

❇️ Scenario development
❇️ PhotoVoice
❇️ Resilience assessment

🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏰ 13:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2)
📍 Hybrid (Online/Stellenbosch University)
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4kwzs26r

Join the launch of the Transformative Change Processes thematic stream on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, at 15:00 (Central African/European Time – UTC+2). Register to attend. The launch event will provide an introduction to the thematic stream, as well as to the activities of its four working groups: • Human-nature connectedness • Regenerative social-ecological systems • Seeds and plural pathways of transformative change • Values-based transformative change for human-nature relationships

📣 Upcoming thematic stream launch 🎉

Join us for the launch of the Transformative Change Processes thematic stream and its four working groups.

🗓️ Wednesday, 18 June 2025
⏰ 15:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2)
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/zru4jr6w

ℹ️ More about thematic streams: tinyurl.com/57u9h4bb