KlimaCampus Kolloquium: Transformative change and the imperative to transform environmental science
Within climate and biodiversity science, we see increasing calls for transformative change. These calls are based on the recognition that fundamental shifts in economic and political systems are needed to secure a socially and ecologically just and sustainable future. These calls for transformative change coming from science are accompanied by repeated calls for the transformation of science. These calls are based on the recognition that fundamental shifts in how science is done are needed to strengthen its contribution to society. In this lecture, I will discuss the progress made as well as continued stagnation and inertia in response to these two calls. Specifically, I will argue that dominant norms and conceptualizations of what science is and how it should relate to policy and society, have locked environmental science into a situation in which it continues to serve vested interests and reproduce the status quo and that, consequently, environmental science has become an obstacle for the transformative changes it continues to call for. I will also outline what is needed to transform environmental science so that it can support transformative change.
Date
19.06.2025
Time
15:15 h
Place
- Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
- Seminar Room 022/023, Ground Floor, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Hamburg