The Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES)

🏬 Day 4 of our Resilience of Urban SETS short course Participants were introduced to: 🏬 modes of sensemaking to explore response strategies – Mikhail Chester (ASU 🇺🇸) 🏬 futures and foresight approaches for navigating uncertainty and complexity – @mberbes.bsky.social (University of Waterloo 🇨🇦)

🌃 Day 3 of our Resilience of Urban SETS short course Hallie Eakin (Arizona State University 🇺🇸) and Maike Hamann (University of Exeter 🇬🇧) facilitated an exploration of the different ways in which informality, equity, and resilience interact in urban SETS.

🌇 Day 2 of our Resilience of Urban SETS short course On the second day, participants were introduced to: 🌇 How cities conceptualise and plan for resilience to climate change – @sarameerow.bsky.social 🌇 Nature-based solutions as an approach to strengthen urban resilience – @carlyziter.bsky.social

🏙️ Day 1 of our Resilience of Urban SETS short course Yesterday, the cohort had the first two sessions, focussing on: 🏙️ key concepts of the SETS framework and resilience of cities, presented by @drnitrogen.bsky.social 🏙️ urban resilience and infrastructure, presented by @michaelschoon.bsky.social

Our 2026 short course “The Resilience of Urban Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS)” is taking place this week! 🎉 26 participants, representing more than 15 countries, are exploring the broad theme of urban SETS and resilience from a range of perspectives with the help of 10 scholars.

📣 Upcoming webinar on Social-Ecological Systems research and practice in Asia Presentations by Prof. Wang Yahua (Tsinghua University, Beijing) and Mofizur Rahman (Humboldt University of Berlin). 🗓️ 23 October 2026 🕑 07:30 CAT/CEST / 11:00 IST / 13:30 PHT / 14:30 JST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/4au7hh4z

📣 Upcoming webinar on co-production in divided social-ecological contexts @violetcv.bsky.social will share insights on designing, facilitating, and evaluating co-production processes on polarising topics. 🗓️ 13 October 2026 🕑 09:00 AZ / 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CAT/CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ypp5radv

📣 Upcoming webinar on rural landscapes and sustainability transitions 🌾 @cortescapano.bsky.social will share insights from research on rural transitions in the Champsaur Valley in the French Alps. 🗓️ Tuesday, 6 October 2026 🕑 09:00 CAT/CEST / 12:30 IST / 16:00 JST 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/34kk8dtz

📣 Upcoming informal online gathering for SES researchers and practitioners across Asia 💬 Get to know the Asian SES community and the kinds of SES research and practice they are doing. 🗓️ Wednesday, 7 October 2026 🕑 15:00 IST / 17:30 PHST / 18:30 JST 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/46b95dsm

📣 Upcoming webinar on novel approaches and alternative ways to finance nature 🌱 Bianca Voicu and @resiliencesci.bsky.social will share their research on diverse approaches to financing nature. 🗓️ 23 September 2026 🕑 09:00 EDT / 15:00 CAT/CEST 🔗 Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/2k375dcj

📣 Upcoming webinar on how institutional shifts relate to rising conflict in Swedish forest policy 🌍 Annica Sandström will share an ongoing study on institutional shifts, policy and actor dynamics. 🗓️ 24 August 2026 🕑 08:30 Arizona / 11:30 EDT / 17:30 CAT/CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/34hmj845

📣 Upcoming online short course on the resilience of urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) 🏙️🌱 🗓️ 19-23 October 2026 📚 Online (2-3 synchronous sessions per day) ⚠️ Apply by 8 September 2026 ℹ️ Learn more and apply: socses.org/short-courses/

📣 New publication: Navigating Ethical Place-Based Research in Transdisciplinary Marine Science (and Beyond) 🪸 Congratulations to the Navigating Ethical Place-Based Research thematic working group on the publication of their paper in Ocean and Society! 📄 Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/dw64cpwu

📣 Upcoming visioning session to collectively plan implementing activities of the Asian SocSES community 💭 🗓️ Thursday, 18 June 2026 🕑 08:00 IST / 08:30 BST / 09:30 ICT / 10:30 CST, PHST / 11:30 JST, KST 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/mpw6jw69

📣 Upcoming visioning session to collectively envision what the Asian SocSES community could be and do 💭 🗓️ Friday, 15 May 2026 🕑 05:30 ADT / 14:00 IST / 14:30 BST / 15:30 ICT / 16:30 CST, PHST / 17:30 JST, KST 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/y8mwuwpv

📣 Upcoming webinar to launch the US-Canada Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions Report 🎉 SocSES NA Hub/NATURA Webinar: 📗 US-Canada Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions 🗓️ Thursday, 21 May 2026 🕑 08:00 MST (Arizona) / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CAT/CEST 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/586t7yp5

📣 Upcoming Dialogue SESsion on SES research in Southern Africa 💬 Join the Southern African Hub’s inaugural Dialogue SESsion with leading scholars, who have shaped and advanced the SES field in the region. 🗓️ 12 May 2026 🕑 09:00 EDT / 15:00 CAT/CEST / 18:30 IST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ztf42mzh

📣 Inauguración del Hub regional para América Latina 🎉 ¡El "hub" latinoamericano de SocSES tendrá su inauguración en abril! El evento contará con interpretación simultánea (español/inglés). 🗓️ 30 de abril de 2026 🕑 10:00 🇲🇽 / 11:00 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 / 12:00 🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇱 / 13:00 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷 🔗 Registro aquí: tinyurl.com/LatAm-Hub

📣 Upcoming launch of the Latin American Hub 🎉 Interested in helping to build a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Latin America? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub! 🗓️ 30 April 2026 🕑 10:00 🇲🇽 / 11:00 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 / 12:00 🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇱 / 13:00 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/LatAm-Hub

📣 Upcoming training session on Photovoice 📷 The Transformative Arts-Based Methods thematic working group invites you to their second 60-minute training session. 🗓️ 1 April 2026 🕑 07:00 MST (Arizona) / 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST/CAT / 21:00 ICT 📍 Online 🔗 Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/yc8dphve

📣 Upcoming webinar on how plural values shape sustainability visions and decision-making 🌍 Don't miss this webinar by Lelani Mannetti exploring the politics of different ways of valuing nature. 🗓️ 23 March 2026 🕑 09:00 Arizona / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/2m87a6bb

📣 Upcoming launch of the European Regional Hub 🎉 Interested in helping to build a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Europe? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub! 🗓️ 25 March 2026 🕑 10:30 WET/GMT / 11:30 CET / 12:30 EET 📍 Online 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EU

📣 Upcoming launch of the Asian Regional Hub 🎉 Interested in building a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Asia? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub! 🗓️ 26 March 2026 🕑 08:30 🇮🇳 / 09:00 🇧🇩 / 10:00 🇮🇩 / 11:00 🇨🇳 🇵🇭 / 12:00 🇯🇵 📍 Online 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-Asia

📣 Upcoming webinar on transdisciplinary processes in nature-based transformations ✨ 🎤 Enora: Operationalising co-production for nature-based transformations 🎤 Carolin: The role of relational learning in knowledge co-production 🗓️ 24 February 2026 🕑 10:00 CET 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5n8e6x8r

📣 Upcoming webinar on collaborating to inform the policy and practice of small-scale fisheries 🎣 Don't miss this webinar by Nicole Franz on collaboration at the science-policy interface. 🗓️ 16 February 2026 🕑 08:30 MST / 10:30 EST / 16:30 CET / 17:30 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/46hnus62

🗓️ 📢 Join IIED for the CBA20, 11–14 May in Manila, Philippines. IIED is inviting expressions of interest to host conference sessions, with finance, gender, decolonisation and equity cutting across all themes. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Z902cL

📣 Upcoming Dialogue SESsion with renowned SES scholars Frances Westley, Brian Walker and Terry Chapin 💬 🗓️ 4 February 2026 🕑 15:00 PST / 18:00 EST / [5 Feb] 10:00 Australian EST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend (membership/login required): tinyurl.com/Dialogue-2 ℹ️ Find out more: tinyurl.com/9wm8pphm

📣 REMINDER: call for thematic working groups – submit proposals by 6 February 2026 🗓️ This is a reminder to submit proposals for thematic working groups that would introduce directions not well-represented in the existing thematic streams of SocSES. ℹ️ Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/58dxupyc

📣 Upcoming Global Conversation exploring how conservation, justice, and sustainability unfold in an increasingly interconnected world 🌍 🗓️ 29 January 2026 🕑 14:00 CET 📍 Online ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/54we58e4 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/4s9chbee Organised by SESI at @leuphana.bsky.social

📣 Upcoming Dialogue SESsion 💬 We are honoured to have Frances Westley, Brian Walker and Terry Chapin reflect on SES research and practice. 🗓️ 4 February 2026 🕑 15:00 PST / 18:00 EST / [+1: 05/02] 10:00 Australian EST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend (membership/login required): tinyurl.com/Dialogue-2

📣 Upcoming webinar on co-producing transformation pathways towards safe and just futures for all 🌍 Don't miss this lecture by Laura Pereira on imagining the impossible. 🗓️ 15 January 2026 🕑 10:00 MST / 12:00 EST / 18:00 CET / 19:00 CAT 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/msj7dj86

📣 Call for thematic working groups: submit proposals by 6 February 2026 👥 Are you interested in building a new community of practice around a particular theme or topic in order to bridge different approaches and perspectives? ℹ️ Learn more and apply here: socses.org/call-for-wor...

📣 Upcoming online workshop to map concepts related to seeds 🌱 Explore concepts similar to seeds through conceptual mapping of, e.g., bright spots, lighthouses, grassroots innovations. 🗓️ 14 January 2026 🕑 07:00 MST / 09:00 EST / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/map-seeds

📣 Upcoming webinar on innovations keeping an agricultural system resilient 🌾 The Collaborative Governance thematic working group invites you to a webinar with Denise Simmons. 🗓️ 16 December 2025 🕑 09:00 MST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/yu38fst2

A unique study of biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa, in Nature, shows that the region has lost 24% of its biodiversity, and that over 80% of the remaining wild plants and animals live outside protected areas, meaning we have to re-think conservation in Africa. Fig: Nature buff.ly/l8g5vs2

📢 Join us for Stakeholder Day prior to #IPBES12 in Manchester, UK! 🗓️ 2 February 2026 🖼️ Showcase your IPBES-related projects with a poster! 🌍 Learn more and register for online and in-person participation by 2 January: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes12/stakeholder-day

A new report reveals how the Anthropocene is shaping our brains and minds, and how our cognition and social systems are, in turn, driving global change. Find the report here: buff.ly/Xay5oYg

🌱 Join our community and be recognised as a founding member 🏅 SES research has long lacked an institutional home. That changed this year with the launch of SocSES. Sign up before the end of 2025 to be recognised for co-creating our community. 🔗 Become a founding member: socses.org/join-socses/

A new report led by the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk highlights that an ecosystem approach is the best way to make sure that ecosystems continue to function for people & nature, & a more effective way of boosting biodiversity. Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

📣 Upcoming live recording of the Nature Connectedness for President podcast with guest Christopher Ives from the University of Nottingham 🌱 🗓️ Friday, 28 November 2025 🕑 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Get your free Need for Nature Week Festival Pass to attend: tinyurl.com/bdhtjac6

📣 Upcoming webinar on human-nature connectedness frameworks 🌱 Join this Research Roundtable webinar on Nature Connectedness frameworks with Matteo Giusti, Melissa Hatty, and Ryan Lumber. 🗓️ 27 November 2025 🕑 09:00 UTC / 10:00 CET / 11:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5bufxmnw

📣 Upcoming gathering for early-career SES researchers and professionals in Asia and Oceania time zones to connect, share ideas, and just hang out 🌏 🗓️ 2 December 2025 🕑 10:30 Indian Standard Time 🕑 14:00 Japan Standard Time 🕑 16:00 Australian EDT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5b2udazv

📣 Upcoming webinar on how local “seeds” and participatory foresight can help guide pathways toward more sustainable and just futures 🌱 🎤 @amandajimenezac.bsky.social from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social 🗓️ 25 November 2025 🕑 7 am Mountain / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4pb3ybfz

🎙️Call for sessions! Towards a just and habitable world: exploring the role of technology Submit your session proposal to help shape the discussions around how we might transform technological systems towards sufficiency, equity, and resilience. 📅 Lausanne, 2-5 June 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3JgQZT6

📣 Upcoming training session on collective futures visioning using collage 🌱 The Transformative Arts-Based Methods thematic stream working group invites you their first training session. 🗓️ 26 November 2025 🕑 08:00 Mountain / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/ycxx4ycy

📣 Reminder: Inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱 We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers. 🗓️ 17 November 2025 🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 🎟️ Register via email invitation or Community Platform

📣 Upcoming inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱 We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers. 🗓️ 17 November 2025 🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 📍 Online 📥 Invitation via email to SocSES members

🔍 Day 5 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course 🔍 @aquinlan.bsky.social (@resiliencealliance.bsky.social 🇨🇦) facilitated a session on co-creating indicators as part of a resilience assessment 🔍 Participants presented their group assignments and reflected on the past five days

👐🏽 Day 4 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course Participants discussed: 👐🏽 transformative change and climate resilience, with Oonsie Biggs (CST 🇿🇦) 👐🏽 co-creating experiments that foster community resilience, with @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social, @uwaterlooclimate.bsky.social 🇨🇦

🌇 Day 3 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course The cohort explored: 🌇 SES, SETS and IAD frameworks and theories, and how to use them effectively, with Micheal Schoon (ASU 🇺🇸) 🌇 the role of power in issues of climate justice with @mberbes.bsky.social (University of Waterloo 🇨🇦)