News for CESSS
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Expert organizations’ responsibility to support the next generation of sustainability experts
An article about expert organizations’ institutional understanding of expertise and responsibility for the creation of the next generation of experts by Karin Gustafsson has been published recently. In the article the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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How do teachers deal with emotions in climate change education?
Are emotions, such as worry about climate change, something irrational that should be avoided in climate change education, or are emotional reactions something positive for learning? Maria Ojala has published an article about senior high-school teachers’...
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Nudges, norms, or just contagion
Nudges, norms, or just contagion: What explains (non) sustainable behavior? Carolin Zorell has published an article in the journal Sustainability about (non)sustainable choices in a restaurant setting in which she focuses on the importance of the social...
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Magnus Boström receives funding for a project about lifestyle changes
Magnus Boström has received funding from the Swedish Research Council Formas. The name of the project is: ”Learning to consume less: Can experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic trigger lifestyle transformation?”
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Young people’s trust in climate change science and their climate engagement
What role does trust in climate change science play in young people’s climate engagement, meaning making, and identity development? This is a topic that Maria Ojala discusses in an article published in Children’s Geographies
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Nature conservation and the ambiguous human-nature relationship
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Reflexivity in expert organizations
Making use of expert knowledge in reflexive and open social processes has been emphasized as of great importance to learn how to manage environmental problems and to work towards sustainable social transformations.
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COVID-19 and climate changes
During the last couple of months, researchers at CESSS has published multiple articles dealing with the relation between two of today’s most urgent global problems; the corona pandemic and climate changes.
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A new research environment is born
Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS) focuses on three broad themes with regards to sustainability transformation from a social science perspective: