Driving Transformative Change: The Power of Social Science in Biodiversity Decision-Making

Join our event meet the researchers of the PLANET4B project and be a part of the solution!

The event is free but please register here: https://forms.gle/dUwyhotsKyntP13d9

Deadline of registration: 8th October

Social-ecological transformation is necessary to prioritise biodiversity better.

PLANET4B project uses creative methods, research and field work to examine how we can influence policy and boost transformative change.

Our speakers

Eszter Kelemen PhD:  A social scientist committed to improve human-nature connections at multiple scales, from the personal to the institutional. Holds an MSc in economics and a PhD in environmental sciences. She has been working at ESSRG, currently as full-time senior researcher. Between 2008-2019 she taught environmental conflict management, ecological economics and decision techniques at different Hungarian universities.

The socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services is her core research interests. She works with social scientific, participatory and deliberative techniques which helps facilitate knowledge co-creation processes.

Prof. Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist and interdisciplinary social-environmental researcher with focus on governance of common pool resources. He is the director of Social Learning and Environmental Governance Lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He studies behavioral and institutional change for equitable and sustainable environmental governance. He examines societal transformations and path dependence across natural resource domains of water, land, forests, biodiversity, and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts.

Language: Eszter Kelemen will hold her presentation in Hungarian and Ilkhom Solive in English. Presentations will be available in both languages for the registered participants.

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