Planetary Limits and Complex Risks: Developing Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The Cerac and Belgian universities joined forces to launch the first edition of the Belgian Interuniversity Conference Series dedicated to planetary boundaries and associated socio-ecological risks.

On December 2nd of this year, a full day of conferences dedicated to planetary limits and complex risks from an interdisciplinary perspective took place at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The program of this scientific day addressed several challenges related to planetary limits and associated socio-ecological risks. Researchers from various universities, along with experts in social and human sciences as well as natural sciences, presented their work to deepen the understanding of these systemic and complex challenges.
 

With contributions from:

• Kris Verheyen (UGhent) : « Towards climate-resilient forests through transdisciplinary collaboration between science and practice. »
• Marie Pairon (UMons) : « Soil-sensitive insights into land-system change: vulnerability and ecosystem service losses under artificialisation in Wallonia. »
• Anne Bergmans (UAntwerp) : « The paralysing effect on (climate) resilience of a risk-based approach. »
• Eva Beele (KULeuven) : « Urban green space as a buffer against urban heat: exploring thermal and health-related benefits of green composition and configuration. »
• Maria Lusia Lode (VUB) : « Assessing Justice in Low-Carbon Transitions through Deliberation and Stakeholder-Based Impact Scoring: Insights from Five European Case Studies. »
• Elisa Minsart (Unamur) : « Facing the Planetary Climate Boundary: Potentials and Limits of Citizens’ Assemblies in Climate Governance. »
• Valérie Swaen (UCL) : « Marketing as a Driver of Sustainable Change. »
• Kim Hendrickx (ULiège) : « What’s in a trace? »
• Aurore Fransolet (ULB) : « Building Social - Ecological Protection for a Just Transition. »
• Tim Nawrot (UHasselt) : « The exposome in the Anthropocene. »

The afternoon concluded with a discussion featuring three ULB PhD students : Jetnis Avdijaj (AtM), emy Scheer (SonyA), Juliette van ypersele (Centre de droit public et social).



Download the detailed event programme (PDF)



Scientific committee members: Aurore Brunson (Cerac), Loïc Gillerot (Cerac), Pierre Coheur (ULB), Fanny Vrydagh (ULB), Patrick Meyfroidt (UCLouvain), Marthe Nyssens (UCLouvain), Xavier Fettweis (ULiège), Aline Thiry (ULiège), Nicolas Dendoncker (UNamur), Sophie Béreau (UNamur), Vincent Bellinkx (UAntwerpen), Sebastien Lizin (UHasselt), Minhea Tanasescu (UMons), Larissa Romariz Peixoto (UMons), Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez (VUB), Christel Stalpaert (UGent), Hans Verbeeck (UGent), Gerard Govers (KULeuven), Charlotte Scheerens (KULeuven).