The Enabling State: Building the Ecological Transition on Social Innovations w. Olivier De Schutter

Sustainability Science Centre can now present a new Sustainability Lecture 30 October 2020, with Olivier De Schutter on:
The Enabling State: Building the Ecological Transition on Social Innovations!
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The societal transformation required to remain within planetary boundaries requires changes at multiple levels, in various sectors of society, and in a variety of contexts. Accelerating collective learning through local experimentation in social innovations shall be essential to that effect.
To support this, we need an Enabling State: a form of government that could empower local communities to experiment with new ways of producing, consuming or sharing, to win the race against the degradation of the ecosystems
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Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and the former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (2008-2014)
He has taught in the past at Columbia University, at Yale University, and at UC Berkeley, and was awarded the Francqui Prize, the most prestigious scientific award in Belgium, for his work at the intersection of human rights and governance. He chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food System.
He’s a specialist of the theory and practice of governance, he has worked extensively on social innovations as a tool to achieve the ecological and social transition
The lecture will be moderated by Katherine Richardson, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Leader of the Sustainability Science Centre, will moderate this lecture
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Admission is FREE and online, but registration is necessary:
https://sustainability.ku.dk/lectures…/nextlecture/signup/
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