Welcome to Pathways to Sustainability: Social-ecological resilience and transformation across multiple scales.
The world’s foremost thinkers and advocates of place-based social-ecological scholarship are invited to PECS3 in Montreal Canada (12-15 August 2024), to share ideas on how to transform sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene informed by issues and solutions in multiple knowledges and values. This conference is co-hosted by The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society, the Resilience Alliance, and NSERC ResNet.
As the flagship meeting of a transdisciplinary, action-orientated field, this conference will gather a diverse group of scholars, policy-makers, stakeholders, practitioners, and Indigenous rights-holders from across Canada and all over the planet to share cross-cutting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and insights on social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene. It will focus on the transformative changes needed in different contexts and places to bring society onto a sustainable path.
The PECS-III meeting will be more than just a conference. The launch of a new society for the social-ecological systems community will be discussed at the conference, which could be a monumental step for the community. They intend this society to guide and set the agenda for the future of transdisciplinary social-ecological research and policy responses- creating a global community of social-ecological systems practice to support urgently needed sustainability transformations.
Call for Submissions
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society, the Resilience Alliance, and NSERC ResNet are excited to announce the Call for Innovative Sessions and Organized Oral Symposia and proposals for PECS-3. Proposals for Innovative Sessions and Organized Oral Symposia will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 15 November 2023.
The conference themes are:
- Transitions, Transformations and Adaptations to more sustainable futures;
- Social-ecological resilience: evolving approaches for understanding, measuring and navigating change;
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Scaling sustainability solutions and place-based knowledge;
- Weaving knowledges to co-produce science for thriving, equitable, just social-ecological systems;
- Understanding and navigating social-ecological change.
There is no limit to the number of proposals an individual can submit; however, to diversify opportunities for participation by all delegates, participants will be able to deliver a maximum of two presentations across all session types (but are welcome to be a non-presenting co-author on any number of presentations led by others). Presenters who are part of Innovative Sessions or Organized Oral Symposia will NOT be required to submit individual abstracts.
All details regarding the session and contributed speakers should be contained within the submissions for the Innovative Sessions or Organized Oral Symposia. Before submitting, please make sure to carefully read the submission guidelines here. For further submission information, click here.
Registration period: 29 September 2023 - 08:00 until 5 August 2024 - 23:30
Submission period: 2 October 2023 - 00:00 until 15 February 2024 - 00:00.
Cover image by Jackie Hutchinson.
