Sustainable environmental decision-making calls for diverse forms of knowledge
Lukuaika: 7 min.The authors assess the importance of recognizing and applying diverse forms of knowledge in environmental decision-making. This perspective is especially relevant in today’s scientific and political context, which is challenged by the widespread distribution of disinformation and the erosion of academic freedom.
Countries as currency: How modern travellers turn countries into status symbols
Lukuaika: 8 min.Why are more travellers engaging in country counting? A recent master’s thesis by Emma Felin shows that this trend is far more than a niche hobby. It offers a window into how travel, identity, and social media intertwine in today’s tourism culture.
Reimagining Food Systems in Tourism
Lukuaika: 7 min.Food systems and tourism are inherently interconnected, nearly a quarter of all tourism spending is on food. The challenges presented by today’s industrialised food systems call for new approaches. WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farming) is one such model. Working on organic farms provides travellers with meaningful experiences and fosters new relationships between humans and nature. This model challenges contemporary views of work, leisure, and expertise while promoting responsible tourism development.
10 theses for an ecosocially just sustainability transformation
Lukuaika: 11 min.Responsibility from decision-makers is demanded in the theses shaped through multidisciplinary research collaboration and citizen workshops, to ensure no one is left behind in the sustainability transformation.
Locals tackling the challenges of peripheries
Lukuaika: 7 min.In the citizen workshops and expert seminars of the Margins of the Sustainability Transition project, the sustainability transition and its associated marginalities are approached through various themes, bringing together different citizen perspectives and expert knowledge. In the first citizen workshop, participants reflected on global and local changes in land and natural resource use and their potential impacts on the future of living in Lieksa.
Perspectives on the social inequality of sustainability transformation
Lukuaika: 9 min.The article explores social inequality aspects of sustainability transformation. The focus is on the context of Tampere which has been ranked as the most attractive city in Finland.
Towards coexistence between nature and humans in Kemijärvi
Lukuaika: 8 min.Natural livelihoods and nature-based traditions play a significant role in the lives of Finns. Fishing, hunting, and berry picking have been part of Finnish lifestyles and livelihoods for thousands of years. However, the ecological crisis has created a serious need for social change, namely the sustainability transformation.
Scientific societies should take a more active role in the sustainability transformation
Lukuaika: 7 min.Scientific societies could be more active in leading the sustainability transformation, but are they ready to take up this role?
Video abstract: Climate change activism in the city of Pune, India
Lukuaika: < 1 min.This video abstract introduces a recently published essay ”Performing arts of embodied refusal amid anthropogenic climate change: the Salim Ali Biodiversity Park and Bird Sanctuary, Pune, India”. The essay was written by Michele Lobo, Abha Bhagwat, and Dharmaraj Patil.
