Conference paper, Interpret Europe Con 2024
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 18:00 hours CET, via Zoom Event hosted and prepared by me for Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany, in collaboration with Pro Progressione, Hungary What connects the mountains with the lowlands? Rivers. Their tangle is like a circulatory and excretory system. It nourishes what is barren, irrigates what has dried up, flushes out accumulated deposits, dissolves pollutants, dilutes fertiliser and sewage concentrates. At the same time, the state of water reflects how people treat the land. This includes old mountain forests that act as sponges soaking up even heavy rainfalls. One devastating consequence of damaged forests are…
Abstract There are calls for social innovation to help with the effort to halt biodiversity loss. However, research on social innovation and biodiversity is dispersed and covers a multitude of disciplines. A systematic overview of research on social innovation and biodiversity is missing and this paper contributes by focusing on social innovation to tackle the drivers of biodiversity loss and unsustainability. The paper reviews research on social innovation in changing land use (agriculture, forestry, aquatic ecosystems and cities), in tackling exploitation of organisms (fishing, hunting, harvesting), and in addressing threats of climate change, pollution and invasive species. Across these drivers,…
