Kick-off meeting for Just sustainability

Kick-off meeting for the project Towards ‘just sustainability’. Exploring grassroots initiatives to merge social and environmental justice (Justainability)

Facing the global crisis, in its intricate blending of environmental and social problems, experts and policy-makers are called on to propose solutions. There is some irony in the fact that the same people who have driven to the current crisis are also the ones who should solve it. Justainability looks in other directions. Grassroots organizations and local communities have resisted contamination, expropriation, and exploitation while experimenting with creative alternatives to the mainstream organization of collective life. Those experiences have contributed to the accumulation of transformative and transformed knowledge to understand the crisis in different ways.

Researchers and activists from eight countries (Brazil, India, Italy, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, and Turkey) will meet and discuss the strategies to explore and expand those experiences, sharing stories of resistance and endurance.

Our special guest is Professor Robert Bullard, the founding figure of environmental justice; Professor Bullard will open the meeting on the 27th November at 2:30 pm. No other opening could have been more appropriate.

Program Kick off meeting Just sustainability 27-29 Nov. 2014 new agenda.pdf (pdf 42 kB)

For information or if you wish to join the meeting please contact Marco Armiero , director of the .

The workshop is based on work supported by seed grants from the ISSC under the Transformations to Sustainability Programme. The Programme is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and serves as a contribution to Future Earth. Supplementary support for seed grants is provided by the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK through the Newton Fund and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. In particualr our project Just Sostainability is supported by the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Science (SSEESS).