International research collaborations
SustENABLE Transformation
Under the direction of Adrián E. Beling (The King’s University, Canada) and Julien Vanhulst (Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile), SustENABLE Transformation is a long-term research program that, through various lines of research, with their respective associated projects, seeks to study and understand the structural conditions and processes that enable or hinder the fundamental reconfiguration of our unsustainable social and economic systems, as well as the contingent windows of opportunity that various agents can take advantage of to positively influence, initiate, lead, and accelerate transformations. It is a joint program between the Ecocene Center of Advanced Studies (https://fundacionecoceno.org), the Faculty of Social and Business Sciences of the Universidad Católica del Maule (Chile) and the Global Studies Programme (GSP) at FLACSO Argentina.
Projects associated with SustENABLE Transformation cover the following thematic areas:
Social-ecological transformation theory
Under-explored agential synergies for socio-ecological transformation
Cartographies: Social-ecological debates and struggles
Religion and socio-ecological transformation
Economic Pluriversity
Emerging models of social and economic organization
Citizen Science project: ES Atlas: Mapping socio-ecological transitions globally
The objective of the ES Atlas is to build a repository, map and characterize the sustainability Initiatives in different countries, through a collaborative platform with open data that allows to gather the current and past initiatives aimed at paving the way to a socio-ecologically sustainable world.
ES Atlas seeks to increase visibility and understanding of sustainability initiatives through an interactive web platform where people are invited to collaborate and whose data is freely available under creative commons license for research, educational, political, or social uses.
URL: https://ecosocialatlas.org/
Inter-university Research Project on Governing the Coastal Commons (Chile)
Description: Funded through the prestigious Anillo Program of the Chilean Government, this project unites researchers from three Chilean universities: Universidad de Concepcion (UDEC), Universidad Catolica del Maule (UCM), and Universidad de Los Lagos (ULAGOS), as well as a team of international research collaborators from around the world, including Dr. Beling, in the common objective of “co-designing a collaborative model of governance and care of commons in coastal areas, as a measure to address the effects of Climate Change”.
Activities have included a collaborative literature review between the CRC T2S lab and a research team from the University of Maule Valley (Universidad Catolica del Maule, UCM) on the topic of Commons Governance, which is an overlapping area in both research projects. CRC T2S student research assistants were trained in all phases of a systematic literature review process following PRISMA guidelines (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, http://prisma-statement.org/), and resulted in two complementary reports tailored to the objectives of each research project.
Dr. Beling came to Chile for a research stay in March 2023, where report drafts were advanced and broader connections between the respective projects and research lines explored.
Related publications
Anillo project report on Literature Review Commons Governance (in Spanish)
WP Literature Review Commons Governance (forthcoming)