Environmental social science research group

We are a research & development enterprise working on the boundaries of environmental and social sciences with a transdisciplinary approach.

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Past and ongoing projects

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Involved researchers

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Projects won since last year

Projects

Alternative Paradigms for Biodiversity-Positive and Just Futures

Alternative paradigms and governance approaches to support biodiversity-positive, climate-resilient and just futures.

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Rewarding farmers for environmental public goods

How can innovative agri-environmental contracts support farmers and nature at the same time?

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Nature-based scaling approaches for just transformative change

How nature-based solutions (NbS) can be scaled up in a fair and just way?

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Transforming Urban Food Systems in Europe and Central Asia

Identifying key challenges and the role of municipalities in transforming agri-food systems.

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Explore our policy recommendations for the Sand Ridge region!

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The Sand Ridge Land and Water Management Policy Lab has developed policy recommendations for land use in the region.

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Hírek

Elkészült a MOSAIC projekt homokhátsági szakpolitikai javaslatcsomaga

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A Homokhátsági Táj- és Vízgazdálkodás Műhely kidolgozta a térség tájhasználatára vonatkozó javaslatait.

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Small-Scale Food Interventions in Budapest

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We have prepared a brief overview of Budapest’s small-scale, real-life interventions under the FoodCLIC Project. This publication serves as an executive action guide and policy showcase designed primarily for municipal leaders, district decision-makers, urban planners, and civil partners.

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We have prepared a workbook for local governments

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We developed the textbook What Ends Up on Our Tables? – A workbook for local governments to transform local food systems to help reflect on what a local government can do these days when it comes to food and nutrition, even with small investments. The workbook is in Hungarian and provides questions and frameworks with which decision-makers and municipal staff can assemble their own city’s strategy and set their food system on a more sustainable path both environmentally and socially.

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Healing Garden video

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As part of the COEVOLVERS Project we joined forces with the Magház Association, and the Boldog Gellért Hospital to draw up a plan, through a participatory process, to transform the hospital garden into a healing garden, and to take the first steps towards implementing this plan.

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We developed nature-based solutions comic strips

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In the COEVOLVERS Project, we developed a series of comic strips in collaboration with a professional illustrator to translate the project’s core, complex theoretical concepts — such as coevolution, affordances, multispecies democracy, and caring with nature— into easy-to-absorb messages.

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