We are making society more sustainable
We study the comprehensive transformation of society and the conditions for accepting change.
Societal change requires the alignment of different goals
The sustainability transformation refers to the significant societal changes needed to adapt our lifestyles to the planet's ecological boundaries. An essential part of the sustainability transformation is achieving ambitious environmental goals within a sufficiently rapid timeframe, in a socially just and societally acceptable manner.
How is a comprehensive and just sustainability transformation implemented? How can we ensure that gains in one policy sector do not cause problems in other policy sectors and administrative areas? What is meant by a just sustainability transformation, and whose justice is it? What type of and whose produced knowledge is environmental decision-making based on, and how can the use of researched knowledge be practically strengthened?
Syke strengthens the conditions for implementing the sustainability transformation through solution-oriented, interdisciplinary, and social science research. The goal is to expand the perspective of environmental policy from solving individual problems to more systemic approaches.
We strengthen societal resilience
Explore impact-building Transition Arenas
The transition arena method can create concrete pathways towards sustainable societal solutions together with various participants.
Dalia D'Amato-Pihlman and Topi Turunen: What’s next for sustainability transformation: the role of law and justice
Legal and justice scholars have an important gap to address in the research on transformative governance, which requires more nuanced analyses of the role of law and justice for sustainability transformations, writes Dalia D’Amato-Pihlman and Topi Turunen in their blog.
We evaluate the fairness of the transition
Explore the dialogue between research and decision-making
The European Environment Agency's (EEA) knowledge support is a direct pathway from European environmental knowledge producers to EU decision-making. Syke coordinates, for example, the sustainability transition theme.
