Panel 2: Sustainability transitions and experiments in social innovation

Name: Social Innovations as Sites of Resistance and Transformation in Times of Crisis
Start: 2025-04-14T04:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-17T03:59:00Z
Location: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)

Faced with the worsening climate and environmental crisis, the inaction of political decision-makers and the pressure of industrial lobbies, a number of civil society initiatives are being implemented to take local action and contribute to the sustainability transitions. These initiatives are part of a new relationship with the territory and nature, and enable experimentation with practices that bring about social innovation. The panel will discuss examples of these initiatives with three people actively involved in such experiments or who have conducted action-research projects on them.

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Tamatoa Bambridge, researcher, Rāhui Center (Polynésie française)

René Audet, professor et researcher, Chaire de recherche sur la transition écologique (UQAM) (Canada)

Yenny Vega Cárdenas, president, Observatoire international des droits de la nature (Canada)

The panel will be moderated by Professor Sophie L. Van Neste (INRS).