In this focus area, researchers from information studies, communication studies, ecology and environmental social science explore how information technologies, data and society shape environmental meaning-making.

Focus area 2 – Meaning-making sets emotions at the heart, looking into the relation between people’s environmental experiences and individual and social processes of meaning-making with the objective to understand emotions in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.

Focus area 3 – knowledge starts from the observation that the role of scientific knowledge in decision-making about environmental issues is contested in manifold ways and from multiple directions.

What visions and principles of working together can help foster the engagement, innovation and action needed to realize sustainability transformations? This question is in focus in our research. We explore the co-creation of stories and ideas for engagement and collaboration which set out from a fundamental principle: that human beings are situated in nature. The stories and storytelling we examine are thus locally embedded but globally relevant.