Tag: Joachim H. Spangenberg
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New SERI Background Paper: These are the existential challenges we face while politics is refocusing on military security
In an essay published as the newest SERI Background Paper, Joachim H. Spangenberg argues that, at the current historical turning point, strengthening the politics of climate, environment, and resources is at least as urgent as building up military security. Joachim H. Spangenberg is SERI Germany’s Honorary President and heads the Scientific Advisory Board of Friends…
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Towards care-centred societies
Abstract Care work, often considered economically non-productive, is undervalued and professionally underpaid. This short perspective paper develops a holistic understanding of care, including paid and unpaid care work. It contributes to identifying pathways towards socially and environmentally sustainable, low-consumption societies. Based on archetypical definitions from feminist literature and gender studies, political science, sociology, psychology, ecological…
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GFFA 2025 expert panel on bioeconomy co-organised by SERI
SERI is co-organising an expert panel at this year’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin. SERI’s Honorary President, Joachim H. Spangenberg, will discuss the concept and reality of bioeconomy with Peter Gerhardt (denkhausbremen), Jutta Kill (World Rainforest Movement), and Mogan Ody (Via Campesina). No bioeconomy without agroecology, planetary boundaries, and right to food as…
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Only Radical is Realistic Now: International Carbon Rationing in a Climate Emergency
Abstract Climate disruption and biodiversity collapse are but two symptoms of the environmental crisis caused by ever-growing resource consumption. Multiple overshoots of Earth’s planetary boundaries have pushed our natural systems close to or even beyond critical tipping points. Effective reduction of resource consumption, in particular fossil fuels, is now an immediate necessity for civilisation to…
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Social innovation for biodiversity: A literature review and research challenges
New ways to tackle biodiversity loss through social innovation Alongside the news about the ecological crisis, there are also stories about new ways on how individuals and communities are changing their behaviour to address the current loss of biodiversity. In this paper, SERI members worked with an international team of authors to examine social innovations…