New research article I co-authored, just published online by Elsevier’s Sustainable Cities and Society. Vigier, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C. M., Spiliotopoulou, M., Moore, J., & Rees, W. E. (2023). To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned…
The social dimension of sustainability was not as visible in policy-making as the economic – and partly the environmental – dimensions until about three decades ago. Social capital encompasses collective responsibility, trust, networks, shared knowledge, and social structures, as a…
If you’re like me – torn about whether the whole circular economy fuzz is a good thing or not, especially for the long haul, please read my critical analysis below. The concept of circular economy (CE) is grounded in environmental…
Despite being an old concept for engineering, psychology, and disaster management, the famous natural scientist C.S. Holling introduced ecological and socio-ecological resilience in the early 1970s. He synthesized social and ecological theory to study and enhance adaptive (as opposed to…
The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…
Advancing community sustainability requires viewing the community as a complex, adaptive, and networked socio-ecological system through interdisciplinary lens. Elinor Ostrom and Donella Meadows proposed frameworks that emphasise complexity and the need to consider all of the system’s levels (larger systems…
See updated version of this post here: https://spiliotopoulou.eu/building-capacity-for-regenerative-communities-what-does-it-mean/ I’d like to share with you my perspective on regenerative systems education in brief. Here, I’m documenting seven projects on sustainability teaching and learning that I conducted research for during my PhD…
