The A.R.T Lab members focus on processes of social and ecological transformation as both unintentional and planned responses to unprecedented global changes that are challenging the way we think about our role in the planet, our social relations, and ourselves.
We consider transformative adaptation to be those responses to change and stress that go beyond risk management and address the fundamental drivers of socio-ecological vulnerability, thus creating new pathways to sustainability.
Collectively, we explore the ways in which ideas about development, progress, science and governance, and the actions that embody those ideas, shape how societies and individuals respond to emergent challenges. Our research group is interested in how different social groups respond to the confluence of social, environmental, political and cultural change, and how those responses, in turn, influence relationships of power, privilege and opportunity.
We have focused largely in two domains:
· Food system sustainability and resilience
· Adaptation, vulnerability and resilience in face of multiple-stressors
We employ interdisciplinary and participatory approaches that combine theories of social change, governance, human cognition, and human behavior with vulnerability and socio-ecological systems analysis.
Our group focuses on the epistemological and methodological challenges of combining these bodies of knowledge in the context of conducting actionable research.
We consider transformative adaptation to be those responses to change and stress that go beyond risk management and address the fundamental drivers of socio-ecological vulnerability, thus creating new pathways to sustainability.
Collectively, we explore the ways in which ideas about development, progress, science and governance, and the actions that embody those ideas, shape how societies and individuals respond to emergent challenges. Our research group is interested in how different social groups respond to the confluence of social, environmental, political and cultural change, and how those responses, in turn, influence relationships of power, privilege and opportunity.
We have focused largely in two domains:
· Food system sustainability and resilience
· Adaptation, vulnerability and resilience in face of multiple-stressors
We employ interdisciplinary and participatory approaches that combine theories of social change, governance, human cognition, and human behavior with vulnerability and socio-ecological systems analysis.
Our group focuses on the epistemological and methodological challenges of combining these bodies of knowledge in the context of conducting actionable research.
