Rethink Talks

Right now, the very idea of imagining the future might feel strange when the world is changing in ways we barely even understand. In this episode, we ask, is a safe and just future for all still possible? And what will it take to imagine and enact these kinds of futures?

Host Andrew Merrie is joined by two people who spend much of their time thinking about this: Garry Peterson from the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Laura Pereira from the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/after-covid-19-imagining-a-safe-and-just-future-for-all/

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Economies around the world have been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed serious vulnerabilities and weaknesses. What can we learn from today’s crisis to build more resilience into our systems?

In this episode, host Robert Blasiak talks to Lisen Schultz from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Sturla Henriksen, Special Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

More info: https://rethink.earth/building-business-resilience-what-has-covid-19-taught-us/

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Covid-19 has brought the modern world to its knees. How did we get to this point? This episode of Rethink Talk takes a deep dive into what the coronavirus pandemic says about our world and the change it may go on to trigger.

Host Louise Hård Af Segerstad talks to three experts on change and transformation: Marten Scheffer from Wageningen University, Lauren Hermanus, an expert in sustainable development in practice in South Africa, and Michele-Lee Moore from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Read more: www.rethink.earth/crisis-and-renewal-what-covid-19-says-about-our-world

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COVID-19 has forced governments to take unprecedented steps to recover their economies. At the same time, some parts of the private sector warn they may have to park long-term climate ambitions just to keep their heads above water. This has potentially devastating consequences for sustainability efforts. So how can stimulus packages and investments promote short-term economic recovery without compromising long-term decarbonization and sustainability goals?

In this episode, Beatrice Crona, deputy science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and executive director of the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere programme at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, talks to Maria Håkansson, CEO of Swedfund, the Swedish Government's Development Finance Institution and Therese Lindahl, director of the Behavior, Economics and Nature Programme at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/building-back-better

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COVID-19 is a devastating example of a crisis which ripples through regions and countries, affecting pretty much all aspects of our lives. Although impacts of the pandemic have hit some communities harder than others, especially in the global south, we are seeing signs of resilience emerging from many affected communities.

This episode takes a closer look at some of these communities and how they have responded to this crisis. What can we learn from them and how can we build social resilience for similar events in the future?

Albert Norström from Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Global Resilience Partnership unpacks these questions with colleague Cibele Queiroz and Rafael Calderon-Contreras from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/social-resilience-during-times-of-crisis/

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The corona virus has been described as the biggest challenge the world has faced since World War II. Yet while all eyes are on this devastating pandemic, the Amazon forest is burning to the point of becoming a planetary emergency. This episode looks at deforestation and the looming risk of large-scale destruction in the Amazon and elsewhere – something we know is also linked to the spread of infectious disease from animals to humans. How worried should we be? And what can we do about it?

In this episode, Fredrik Moberg unpacks these questions with Ana Paula Aguiar from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research and David Armstrong McKay from Stockholm Resilience Centre.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/while-all-eyes-are-on-covid-19-the-amazon-forest-is-burning/

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Digital technologies have created an information deluge. It is impossible to keep up with the flood. But digital technologies have also changed the flow of information in the world; the old gatekeepers like the media are now bypassed. What does this mean during a crisis when we need to make rapid decisions under uncertainty and we need to act collectively? 

In this episode media strategist Owen Gaffney speaks to Kate Starbird, an associate professor at the University of Washington and expert on the use of communications technologies in times crisis. Owen also talks to Victor Galaz, associate professor and deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University who studies the spread of disinformation online.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/sense-making-in-crisis/

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When you think about the corona virus currently sweeping the globe, chances are that ‘food’ is not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet food has amplified the devastating effects caused by COVID-19 and exposed vulnerabilities across our food system. This episode asks: how exactly is food related to the pandemic? And how can we redesign our food systems in a way that helps us avoid similar crises in the future? 

In this episode Amanda Wood talks to Jess Fanzo from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Line Gordon from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Both researchers are experts on global food systems and the links between people, the environment and food.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/the-role-of-food-in-the-pandemic/

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We are in the midst of a devastating pandemic. The coronavirus that leads to covid-19 is known to be a zoonotic disease - a virus that has spilled over from non-human animals to humans, and then rapidly moved across the world with devastating impacts on human health, economies and social stability.

How strong is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses connection, can we really blame bats, and what does the future of disease risks look like? 

In this episode, Victor Galaz talks to Kate Jones from University College London and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Both researchers are experts on the links between ecology, disease and global change.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/pandemics-health-and-global-change-how-are-they-connected/

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