Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.
Supporting innovative research, knowledge exchange and capacity building for transformations to sustainability.
Articles, newsletters, videos and other resources on social transformations.
Fostering knowledge exchange and building research skills around the world.
The Transformations to Sustainability programme supports international, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research with a focus on the social dimensions of the causes of and solutions to sustainability challenges.
This website served to showcase the three funded Transformative Knowledge Networks and the programme outputs in the period 2015-2019. The website is maintained to allow users to access resources but is not frequently updated.
Information on the second set of funded projects in the Transformations to Sustainability programme is available at www.t2sresearch.org.
The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.
By Alexandra Tost. This blog was first posted by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS-Potsdam) on 1 August 2022. In April’s session of the IASS focal topic “Justice in Sustainability” lecture series, Dr Leah Temper shed light on “just transformations towards sustainability” from the perspectives of those fighting on the ground to achieve them. Her discussion […]
The latest Transformations to Sustainability knowledge brief explores whether managed retreat – a planned effort to permanently move people and assets away from hazardous places and resettle them in safer locations – can contribute to wide-scale, positive social transformation in the direction of sustainability. Find out more and download the knowledge brief.
After two years of intensive on-the-ground research and participatory filming in Kachchh, western India, the ACKNOWL-EJ project has released six thematic films of the Sandhani project. The films look at the multiple dimensions of transformation taking place in the livelihoods of the weaving community, linked to an overall revival of the craft from a time […]