International Institute of Social Studies

Environment and Climate Change research theme

A selection of projects, networks, teaching, events and publications related to the Environment and Climate Change research theme.

Projects and networks

Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity
Building resilient, equitable and sustainable futures
Realising the Transition to the Circular Economy
Transitioning towards a Circular Economy
All Eyes on the Amazon
Monitoring environmental damage in the Amazon
BRICS Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies
BRICS and their implications for global agrarian transformations
Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative
Social and political processes generating alternatives to regressive politics
Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies
A community of critical scholars, practitioners and activists working on agrarian issues
The Land Deal Politics Initiative
The political economy, ecology and sociology of land deals
Political Ecology
Labour and human security with a focus on sustainability

Links to teaching

  • Projects conducted at ISS related to the Environment and Climate Change theme

    • This innovative and path breaking project will help local communities to build resilient, equitable and sustainable futures.

      • It will tackle socio-ecological challenges linked to policy agendas.
      • It will provide research that demonstrates to policy makers how communities actively sustain and care for their environment and community well-being.
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  • ISS hosts several organizations, networks and secretariats linked to the Environment and Climate Change research theme.

    • The BRICS and their implications for global agrarian transformations

      BRICS Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies logo

      BICAS is a collective of largely BRICS-based or connected academic researchers concerned with understanding the BRICS countries and their implications for global agrarian transformations.

      Critical theoretical and empirical questions about the origins, character and significance of complex changes underway need to be investigated more systematically. In taking forward this research agenda, we are building on and intending to extend the focus of existing knowledge about the BRICS.

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