{"id":13760,"date":"2017-10-11T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:53:33","slug":"resilience-frontiers-global-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2017\/10\/11\/resilience-frontiers-global-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridie McGreavy and Sam Roy represent the Mitchell Center at International Conference<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tone Bjordam’s 2016 sculpture installation entitled “Nature\/Society\/Economy” photographed at the Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm, Sweden, August 21, 2017. Photo by Tone Bjordam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the end of August, Mitchell Center Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Roy<\/a> and Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Bridie McGreavy<\/a> journeyed to Stockholm, Sweden to take part in Resilience 2017<\/a>: Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability\u2014a three-day, multidisciplinary international conference.<\/p>\n

Roy presented two posters on work he\u2019s doing as part of the Future of Dams<\/a> (FoD) team, and McGreavy gave a \u201cflash\u201d talk on her FoD work as well as a presentation on ongoing work she\u2019s done as part of the Safe Beaches & Shellfish Beds<\/a> (SB&S) project.<\/p>\n

Following previous Resilience conferences, which have been held on triennial basis since 2008, the 2017 gathering discussed resilience as a key lens for biosphere-based sustainability science. It reflected back on the scientific progress made, and aimed to set out exciting future directions for research. A main focus was on global sustainability challenges and opportunities, which today are heavily influenced by the speed, scale and connectivity of the Anthropocene\u2014the period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological age.<\/p>\n

\u201cBridie thought it would be good for us both to go to because we worked together fairly closely on the SB&S project and had a collaborative connection there,\u201d says Roy. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve also been in discussion about FoD and were thinking about collaborations.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGreavy\u2019s presentation focused on how the opioid crisis<\/a> that is afflicting communities across Maine is also affecting Maine\u2019s shellfishing industry\u2014\u201cHow opiate addiction in a co-managed fishery threatens social-ecological resilience: An ethnographic study of shellfishing in Maine.\u201d Her flash<\/a> talk was on the process of Dynamic Design Planning, which she and colleagues have developed as a unique model for studying and shaping communication and collaboration practices within sustainability science\u2014specifically in this case, decision-making around dams.<\/p>\n

Roy\u2019s first poster<\/a> was about exploring different dam decision scenarios to see how the benefits received from river ecosystems, such as sea-run fisheries and hydropower, can be affected by dam removal or modification. His second poster<\/a> detailed an innovative, multi-institution course that was created as part of the FoD project. The \u201cLearning from Dams<\/a>\u201d course was designed, among other things, to introduce and build capacity for the growing field of sustainability science and provide an opportunity for students to learn more about each other\u2019s research interests and disciplinary training.<\/p>\n

Notes McGreavy, \u201cOne of the things that struck me immediately was that there was great representation from UMaine and the Mitchell Center at the conference.\u201d In addition to Roy and herself, McGreavy says there were two former Ph.D. students, Eileen Johnson and Stacia Dreyer, who came through the Mitchell Center\u2019s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. Also in attendance was Kara Pellowe, a Ph.D. student working in the UMaine Darling Marine Center with Heather Leslie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a good contingent from Maine, which said something to me about how we\u2019re building capacity, participating in international forums on sustainability, and how our work is being recognized at that level,\u201d McGreavy adds.<\/p>\n

Roy says he was pleased at the level of communication between those in different disciplines. \u201cI\u2019ve been to a lot conferences where conversations are very narrow and high-level and focused within a certain discipline. At Resilience 2017, I was immediately struck by the ability to engage with people you\u2019ve never met before and don\u2019t know their backgrounds, but they were all very good at telling their stories and answering questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Nature\/Society\/Economy” photographed from below at the Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm, Sweden, August 21, 2017. Photo by Tone Bjordam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He also notes that an important thread woven through the conference was the role of artwork in science and, specifically, sustainability science. \u201cA couple of different components of that thread were ways researchers can communicate with artists to build collaborations to create art that\u2019s meaningful emotionally but also scientifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

A prominent piece of art was a sculpture\/installation that hung from the convention space ceiling titled “Nature\/Society\/Economy\u201d by Norwegian artist Tone Bjordam.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a sculpture that was meant to represent the connectivity between the biosphere and human culture and economics. It was a very artistic way of showing the dependences between these different components that are always coming up in sustainability science,\u201d Roy says.<\/p>\n

\u2014David Sims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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