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Relations between coastal risk adaptation and the upgrading of residential offerings along the Belgian Coastline

16 janvier 2025

To reduce coastal flooding risk, along the Belgian coast, engineered systems are now being coupled with nature-based solutions (NBS). While greening grey infrastructure offers a sustainable coastal risk adaptation strategy, balancing ecosystem preservation and recreational benefits, it may also contribute to gentrification processes. Clémentine Harel, Phd student, Université de Mons and La Rochelle Université SONYA , ULB, February 4th, 12:00-1.30 pm. Room U.A.0.03 at USquare ULB, Free entrance.

Transformations for Communal Sustainability: Pluriversal Thinking

6 novembre 2024

Achieving sustainability within planetary boundaries requires more than a universalized approach to sustainable development—it requires a deep localization of efforts that centers socioecological justice and addresses environmental racism. The principle of “leaving no one behind” challenges us to rethink how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are localized in ways that are context-sensitive and transformative. Taís Sonetti-González, PhD, SONYA , ULB, November 27th, 10.30 am-12:00. Room U.A.0.03 at USquare ULB, Free entrance.

Edwin and Kim take part in the IHEB's start session on narrating climate change

21 octobre 2024

Dedicated to narrating climate change, the event welcomed our colleagues Edwin Zaccaï and Kimberley Vandenhole (SONYA) for a round table discussion on the role of art in the light of science.

Bridging decarbonization and labour market in sustainability transitions: policy integration and social dialogue in Belgium

21 octobre 2024

Bridging decarbonization and labour market in sustainability transitions: policy integration and social dialogue in Belgium, Louis Florin Postdoctoral researcher, SONYA, ULB, November 6th, 11am-12:30. Room A.0.03, ULB, Usquare, Free entrance.

Sustainable parenting in an unsustainable world

8 octobre 2024

Sustainable parenting in an unsustainable world, Emy Scheer PhD and Teaching Assistant, SONYA, October 2nd, 11am-12:30. Room DB6.133, ULB, Campus Solbosch, Free entrance.

Kim participated at the EU TalentOn 2024: A Soil Deal for Europe

26 septembre 2024

Kimberley Vandenhole participated at the EU TalentOn 2024 in Katowice. The aim? A one-week hackathon (9 to 14 September) to develop ideas on how to contribute to A Soil Deal for Europe. Together with her team, Kim focused on soil microbiota in order to heal Europe’s unhealthy soils.

Time as a social imaginary: deconstructing temporalities

21 mai 2024

The second session of SONYA’s Inspiration Talks tackled time as a social imaginary and inspired researchers to deconstruct temporalities through speculative fabulation exercises.

Comment créer des ponts entre chercheur.euses afin d’encourager la collaboration interdisciplinaire ?

7 mai 2024

Séminaire ouvert à tous et toutes, sans inscription. Jeudi 23 mai, de 12h15 à 14h Lieu : USquare (coin du boulevard Général Jacques et de l’avenue de la Couronne), local A.0.05

Publication Sonya/CSTB sur le mouvement de justice climatique

7 mai 2024

Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism

SONYA attended the Climate Chance Europe 2024 Wallonia Summit

19 février 2024

Aurore Fransolet, post-doctoral researcher at SONYA, discussed the social justice issues associated with building renovation at the Climate Chance Europe 2024 Wallonia Summit organized as part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

A Critical Review of the Work of the High Committee for a Just Transition in Belgium

8 février 2024

A Critical Review of the Work of the High Committee for a Just Transition in Belgium Aurore Fransolet, Researcher SONYA February 20, 11 am-12:30 am. Room S.DC6.121, ULB, Campus Solbosch

Understanding the policy controversy on the low emission zone in Ghent through discursive networks and strategies

21 novembre 2023

Understanding the policy controversy on the low emission zone in Ghent through discursive networks and strategies Kim Vandenhole, Researcher, SONYA December 12, 11 am-12 am. Room S.DC6.121, ULB, Campus Solbosch, Free entrance

Towards healthy and sustainable food systems

6 novembre 2023

Towards healthy and sustainable food systems Celia Burgaz, Claire Dénos, Researchers, SONYA Sonya Seminar, Chair Prof E. Zaccai, November 14, 11 am-13 pm. Room S.DC6.121, ULB, Campus Solbosch, Free entrance

Julien Vastenaekels defended his PhD thesis: "Degrowth and Capital: Assembling a Power-Centred Theory of Change"

21 septembre 2023

On September 6, Julien Vastenaekels successfully defended his PhD thesis in Sciences.

Kimberley Vandenhole wins the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference!

4 septembre 2023

Kimberley Vandenhole, PhD student at SONYA, and her co-authors Kristjian Garic et Philip Leifeld (Essex University) have won the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Utrecht.

New publication on food system policies by Celia Burgaz

18 août 2023

Are you curious about which policies or interventions governments can implement to achieve healthy and sustainable food systems? In this publication, our colleagues Celia and Wouter (and other scientists from Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand, Senegal, Kenya and Australia), conducted a scoping review to analyse the effect and effectiveness of different policies within food systems, from farm to fork.

SONYA’s first Research Day!

27 juin 2023

With the idea of exchanging knowledge and aiming at greater integration of researchers, the Research Group organised a day of presentations and dialogues among researchers.

Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon

27 juin 2023

This article was published in Global Environmental Change Journal, co-authored by Taís González, SONYA´S Ph.D. candidate highlighting that initiatives led by grassroots actors achieve better social-ecological outcomes. Multi-specialization of activities promotes positive sustainability transformations. Initiatives with cross-sectoral and -scalar partnerships are more successful. Place-based initiatives promote sustainable pathways and transformative change. Finally, grassroots empowerment is vital for external actors seeking to promote sustainability.

Collective writing by the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDa), in which Sonya’s doctoral candidate, Taís González, is part of, in the first issue of Degrow Journal

13 juin 2023

We are excited to share the awesome news: SONYA's PhD candidate Taís González at the open-access and inaugural volume of Degrowth Journal.

SONYA was present at the International Congress of Ecological Humanities in Madrid

13 juin 2023

Taís González, SONYA's PhD candidate, presented her research on how bottom-up collaborative processes can contribute to the transformation towards regenerative sustainability and support transdisciplinary research.

Environment and climate: the roots of inaction

7 juin 2023

In an paper published by the CEPULB, Professor Edwin Zaccai attempts to summarize the evolution of the main climatic and environmental threats. He recalls that the alarms have been repeated for almost a century, and identifies several blocking factors towards needed action. Article accessible for non-specialists.

An article in Critical Innovation Studies

2 juin 2023

Just published in Novation, journal of critical innovation studies. A collaboration between Bonno Pel and Tom Bauler (SONYA), Julia Wittmayer (DRIFT Rotterdam/NL) and Flor Avelino (Utrecht/NL).

PhD student of our department selected for the FAO/WFF Young Scientist Group

2 juin 2023

Celia Burgaz, PhD student on Environmental sciences at SONYA, has been selected as one of the 16 young scientist by the World Food Forum (WFF). The group is responsible for creating a biannual WFF Young Scientists report on specific policy issues that concern youth related to the transformation of agri-food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

‘How dare you!’: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium - New Research Article

28 avril 2023

Within the context of a PhD research on eco-shaming and environmental discourse, a first peer-reviewed paper by Kimberley Vandenhole, Tom Bauler and Thomas Block was published in Critical Policy Studies.

New Book Just Published – The Normative Foundations of International Climate Adaptation Finance

13 février 2023

The new book of our colleague Romain Weikmans is available in open access until the 22nd of February 2023!

Dossier Spécial COP27 : Le chercheur de SONYA, Samuel Lietaer, a présenté aux Grandes Conférences Namuroises comment le dérèglement climatique fait bouger…des personnes impactées, des finances, et des citoyens engagés

23 novembre 2022

Alors que la COP27 vient de s’achever ce dimanche 20 novembre, nous proposons de revenir, à travers une série d’articles, sur les différentes activités menées par les chercheuses et chercheurs de SONYA durant les deux semaines du sommet climatique. Le troisième article de ce dossier spécial répond à trois questions concernant le dérèglement climatique, à savoir comment celui-ci « fait bouger » : 1. des personnes impactées par celui-ci ; 2. l’argent (« le financement climatique ») et 3. Des citoyens (engagés) ?

Dossier spécial COP27 : enjeux, discours, et un journalisme à la hauteur de l’urgence climatique.

22 novembre 2022

Alors que la COP27 vient de s’achever ce dimanche 20 novembre, nous proposons de revenir, à travers une série d’articles, sur les différentes activités menées par les chercheuses et chercheurs de SONYA durant les deux semaines du sommet climatique. Le deuxième article de ce dossier spécial nous raconte les enjeux et discours de la COP27 avant de répondre à la question : pourquoi les journalistes spécialisés sont-ils taxés de militantisme ?

Dossier spécial COP27 : SONYA a participé à la COP à Charm el-Cheikh aux côtés de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

21 novembre 2022

Alors que la COP27 vient de s’achever ce dimanche 20 novembre, nous proposons de revenir, à travers une série d’articles, sur les différentes activités menées par les chercheuses et chercheurs de SONYA durant les deux semaines du sommet climatique. Le premier article de ce dossier spécial relate l’intervention d’Aurore Fransolet lors d’une table ronde d’enseignants-chercheurs sur le rôle de la recherche dans la mise en œuvre d’actions climatiques organisée par l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) à la COP.

SONYA’s PhD candidate, Celia Burgaz, presented her research at the International Congress on Obesity in Australia.

15 novembre 2022

Celia Burgaz, PhD candidate at SONYA, presented her research on sustainable food systems at the International Congress on Obesity (#ICO2022) that took place in Melbourne from the 18th to the 22nd of October. Here we share with you some details of her interventions.

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