Escola São Paulo de Ciência Avançada sobre Transdisciplinaridade para Mudanças Transformativas

Program

The program was developed based on the eight competencies for sustainability training: systems-thinking, future-thinking, value-thinking, strategies-thinking, implementation, interpersonal, intrapersonal and integration competencies. Moreover, considering that transdisciplinarity is problem-driven, solution-oriented, inclusive, innovative, and should engage target audiences in an intentional, self-reflexive, and co-construction process, several slots in the program focus on practices, including field trips to traditional communities.

The School is organized in 4 modules:

Module I

The context of global environmental change and key concepts

  1. Climate change and biodiversity loss: challenges of Complexity
  2. Social-ecological systems & complex adaptive systems
  3. Plurality of values & knowledge systems
  4. Transformative change

Module III

Transdisciplinarity for transformation in science-policy arenas

  1. Science-policy interface at the international level
  2. Science-policy interface at national and state level
  3. Indigenous local knowledge for policy-making

Module II

Transdisciplinarity: methodological and analytical approaches

  1. Participatory action research and community-based monitoring
  2. Ethnobiology
  3. Ecosystem stewardship
  4. Adaptive governance   

Module IV

The challenges for transformative change

  1. Decolonization and transformative change.
  2. Transformative change for social-ecological regeneration.

Module I

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Module I

  1. Climate change and Biodiversity loss: challenges of Complexity 
  2. Social-ecological systems & complex adaptive systems
  3. Plurality of Values & Knowledge Systems 
  4. Transformative Change

Module II

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Module II

  1. Participatory action research and community-based monitoring 
  2. Ethnobiology 
  3. Ecosystem stewardship 
  4. Adaptive governance

Module III

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Module III

  1. Science-Policy Interface at the international level 
  2. Science-Policy Interface at national and state level 
  3. Indigenous Local Knowledge for policy-making 

Module IV

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Module IV

  1. Decolonization and transformative change. 
  2. Transformative change for social-ecological regeneration.

Additionally there will be panels and group activities involving multiple actors, including:

  • Panel I: The perspective of researched local actors;
  • Panel II: The Atlantic Forest Connection (Conexão Mata Atlântica) Program
  • Panel III: Multiple knowledge and values for transformative change
  • Art-activity on co-creating dialogues and scenarios
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