II CONFERENCE OF THE PROGRAMME ON ECOSYSTEM CHANGE AND SOCIETY
Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA) Workshop
November
6
2017
November
7
2017
November
11
2017
Organizer: Matthew Colloff
Facilitators: Matthew Colloff (Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia); Sandra Lavorel (Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes, France); Berta Martin-López (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Faculty of Sustainability, Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Germany); Bruno Locatelli, Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peru.
OBJECTIVES:
This workshop provides an opportunity for existing, new and prospective members of TARA to come together, share their knowledge and learn about experiences of implementing transformative adaptation in a range of contexts, as well as to plan for future research and collaboration.
BACKGROUND:
The workshop is proposed and will be organised by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (https://research.csiro.au/tara/), an international network of researchers and practitioners dedicated to the development and implementation of novel approaches to transformative adaptation to global change. The workshop is intended to complement the application by TARA for a symposium at PECS II entitled "Putting transformative adaptation into action." Several members of TARA will be attending the conference and presenting their research.
DESIRED PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS:
TARA members, and prospective new members wor are undertaking research and practice on transformative adaptation
