The RECOMS management team attended the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) annual conference, hosted this year by Nanjing University, China and chaired a conference track theme entitled ‘Public Participation and the Role of Stakeholders: Sustaining Resources for the Future’, which attracted numerous interesting presentations including RECOMS fellow Jingjing Guo's on ‘Managing Social-Ecological Systems for Resilience’.
In June, as part of the RECOMS project, Alex Franklin and Agnes Zolyomi, attended the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) annual conference, hosted this year by Nanjing University, China. Alex and Agnes jointly chaired a conference track theme entitled ‘Public Participation and the Role of Stakeholders: Sustaining Resources for the Future’. Focusing in particular on multi-stakeholder and community-led forms of resourceful and resilient environmental practice, the goal of this track was to open up discussion and advance understanding of how to nurture the inherent potential of all local stakeholders to become involved in creating innovative, adaptive and transformative sustainability pathways. Presentations delivered through this track included a paper by Alex, co-authored with CAWR colleagues Luke Owen, Donna Udall and Moya Kneafsey, delivering findings from their joint work on territorial food systems in Wales. Also delivering a paper in the well attended session was RECOMS fellow Jingjing Guo. Jingjing presented on her doctoral studies into ‘Managing Social-Ecological Systems for Resilience’, the fieldwork for which she is undertaking in rural China.