The Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) is delighted to announce details of the SSRP Symposium 2024, which spotlights innovative and impactful research on sustainability issues at local and global scales.
The event takes place at 9.30am to 1pm on Thursday 14 November in the Terrace Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex.
SSRP researchers will give short presentations on projects based in Sussex, Ecuador, Brazil, Papa New Guinea, Syria, South Africa, the Horn of Africa, Nigeria, and South Korea.
The presentations and projects fall under the following key SSRP research themes, which form the structure of the symposium schedule.
- Ecosystems, Rights and Justice
- Sustainability Frontiers and South Coast Sustainability
- Sustainable Climate and Food Systems
Within these themes, symposium attendees will hear about research on everything from forest restoration in the Ecuadorian Andes to early weather warning systems in the Horn of Africa, coastal biodiversity off the Sussex coast to the impact of conflict on ecosystems in Syria.
Each panel will conclude with a question and answer session and discussion, to which audience members are invited to contribute.
The Symposium also enables attendees to meet and network over complimentary coffee, tea and lunch. All Sussex students and staff are very welcome. Please register here.
Programme
9.30am. Welcome: Coffee and tea
10am. Introduction to the SSRP Symposium 2024
Joseph Alcamo, SSRP Director
10.10am. Theme 1: Ecosystems, Rights and Justice
Equitable and sustainable forest restoration in the Ecuadorian Andes
Fiona Mathews
Practical implementation of ‘Rights of Nature’ for fair and sustainable futures
Mika Peck
Analysing systems architecture and orchestration for effective implementation, compliance and enforcement of trade and deforestation regulations and SDG outcomes
Anthony Alexander
Revisioning territorial rights in the face of resource extraction: an action research network supporting communities affected by mining in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bonnie Holligan
Integrating action and policy on health, biodiversity, and climate in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Bougainville, and across Melanesia
Alan Stewart
Panel discussion
10.50am. Coffee break
11.10am. Theme 2: Sustainability Frontiers and South Coast Sustainability
Conflict and fragile ecosystems: livestock biodiversity loss and livelihood crisis in Northwest Syria
Mirela Barbu
Using WMRE metrics to accelerate waste management and resource efficiency in Lesotho and South Africa
Qingxiu Bu
Global Imaginaries: connecting young people through improvised collaborative storytelling for sustainable futures
Perpetua Kirby
Co-creating adolescents’ menstrual health research in Sussex, United Kingdom
Chi Eziefula
Ripple Effect: A waterway resilience initiative
Lucila Newell
Documenting the recovery of the Sussex inshore ecosystem post trawling byelaw using
environmental DNA
Valentina Scarponi
Panel discussion
11.55am. Theme 3: Sustainable Climate and Food Systems
Place-based sustainability: Understanding place-based knowledge and knowledge boundaries for the transition to sustainable food systems
Shova Thapa Karki
New developments in people-centred early warning of climate events in the Horn of Africa
Pedram Rowhani
Research and innovation (R&I) policy for climate change and sustainability in Northern Nigeria
Chux Daniels
Participatory democracy and solidarity-based food system transformations
Jonathan Dolley
Challenges to the sustainability of agriculture during protracted conflict in NW Syria
Natalia Slutskaya
Transformation labs in complex, adaptive, socio-hydrologic systems
John Thompson
Panel discussion
12.35pm. SSRP Support for Research: funding, organisational help, impact and visibility
12.50pm. Closing remarks
13.00pm. End of symposium and lunch
SSRP looks forward to seeing you for what promises to be a richly stimulating day.