Sharing a Planet in Peril

The interrelated crises associated with Global Environmental Change (GEC) – including biodiversity loss, climate change and the depletion of soils and waters – are mounting threats to both human and nonhuman life. While the natural sciences provide solid evidence of the magnitude of those threats, the social and cultural dimensions of GEC have received much less attention, although the importance of diverse forms of knowledge, imaginaries and practices in explaining and addressing these threats are increasingly acknowledged.

PLAAS is one of the three core partners in the research initiative ‘Sharing a Planet in Peril’, anchored at the University of Cologne, to tackle the burning environmental questions of our time. To this end we are working together to build an international and interdisciplinary network of researchers and communities in selected sites across the Global South and Global North, in order to examine how the inequitable impacts of GEC are being experienced, narrativized, and responded to within different