28 Aug

Room L, Uppsala

Beyond restoration: Interdisciplinary exploration of restoration for present and future generations

seminars, workshops |

Last year, the EU Nature Restoration Law was adopted, highlighting the growing importance of restoration. Restoration efforts are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, as they aim to support not only ecological recovery but also deliver social benefits and reflect diverse societal values.

Nature Restoration was the focus for this year’s Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) group: "Beyond restoration: Interdisciplinary exploration of restoration for present and future generations". The group has analysed existing restoration frameworks to investigate how these frameworks are applied and understood in restoration practices, including objectives, potential limitations, and key success factors when applied in real-world scenarios.

On August 28th, the group will first present the outcomes of their IDA project on interdisciplinary nature restoration integrating perspectives in blue and green environments. The presentation will focus on three aspects, (i) how interdisciplinarity manifests in different academic nature restoration frameworks, (ii) how restoration practitioners in Sweden understand nature restoration and the need to integrate different disciplines, (iii) how nature-based experiences can be used to bridge diverse perspectives in nature restoration projects.

Then, an invited external panel of experienced researchers and practitioners working on restoration will discuss what is required to put the EU Nature Restoration Law into practice while taking into account broader environmental and societal values and goals.

Participants of the IDA group 2024-2025 are:

  • Hedvig Nenzén, Department of Ecology
  • Carolyn Faithfull, Department of Aquatic Resources
  • Judith Lundberg-Felten, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
  • Patrik Oskarsson, Department of Urban and Rural Development
  • Minh-Xuan Truong, Department of Ecology

Facts

Time: 2025-08-28 09:00 - 11:00
City: Uppsala
Location: Room L
Organiser: SLU Future Food
Additional info:

The Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) at SLU was established 2022 and is run as a project by the NJ Faculty and SLU Future Food with the aim of building a long-term organisation for the development of cross-disciplinary research at SLU. Inspiration has been drawn from the Pufendorf Institute at Lund University and experience has also been drawn from the Futures Lab at SLU. The hope is that the programme will lead to increasing knowledge of, and interest in, cross-disciplinary research work, strengthen the ability to process research questions from a cross-disciplinary perspective, and facilitate cross-disciplinary research collaborations between different departments at SLU. The future development of IDA is managed in dialogue with SLU's other future platforms. 

The NJ Faculty's strategy for 2021–2025 states that cross-disciplinary approaches should be part of the work to contribute to the transition to a sustainable society. The strategy states that the faculty will "strengthen the ability to process research questions from a cross-disciplinary perspective" and "facilitate cross-disciplinary research collaborations between different departments ".

SLU Future Food is a platform that stimulates and develops cross-disciplinary research and collaborations for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems.


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