How we think about sustainability influences the societies that are formed and contested, whether through political and social movements, climate change politics, economic and labor relations, or development.
Human geography and sociology at ISS focus on the social challenges of sustainability, including how transformations come about in inclusive, equitable and sustainable ways. We have internationally leading expertise on critical approaches to addressing these issues, helping to bridge the gaps between science, policy, and practice. At ISS, research and teaching:
- Explores the role of politics, power, beliefs, emotions and worldviews in shaping food and energy transitions, social and institutional change and innovation.
- Emphasizes critical and reflexive approaches to understanding transitions and transformations in society.
- Studies how political ecology, futures thinking, economic and social innovations, and climate change responses are entangled with human/environment, nature/society, local/global, and urban/rural interactions
Researchers
Sverre Johan Herstad
Vilde Blix Huseby
Cathrine Holst
Camilla Houeland
David Jordhus-Lier
Maiken Bjerga Kiil
Manjana Milkoreit
Lars Mjøset
Daniel Molin
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale
Per Gunnar Røe
Bjørnar Sæther
Torstein Storsveen Throndsen