We welcome researchers, other staff and students within and outside of SLU to this webinar in SLU's series of "Climate Conversations" hosted by SLU Global, SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. On this occasion, the focus will be on communication, imagination, and creative collaboration in Swedish climate response.
Target audience: We welcome researchers, other staff and students within and outside SLU with an interest in these questions.
Despite growing awareness of climate-related risks in Swedish food production, adaptation planning still overlooks key voices and fails to ensure adequate flows of knowledge within and across sectors. This webinar held as part of SLU's Climate Conversations will explore this topic in talks from three SLU speakers – and open discussion with attendees – on the knowledge needs of farmers, the role of creativity in municipal collaboration on food preparedness, and how collective visions of the future – referred to as "imaginaries" – can each be harnessed to inform climate adaptation governance.
Speakers:
- Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp, Department of Urban and Rural Development; Division of Environmental Communication, SLU – "How government authorities in Sweden make sense of adaptation – and the role of global imaginaries in adaptation governance"
- Kristina Blennow, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, SLU – "Knowledge needs for effective communications with Swedish farmers on climate change adaptation"
- Andrew Gallagher, Department of People and Society, SLU – ”Sustainability, resilience, preparedness? Implementing approaches to complex food system challenges in Swedish municipalities”
The talks will be followed by an open discussion with speakers and attendees.
The talks will be followed by an open discussion with speakers and attendees, moderated by Paul Egan, SLU Global and Håkan Jönsson, Food and Cities.
