How is “nature” imagined, regulated, defended and transformed? Researchers explored this question at an interdisciplinary conference on climate change as a multidimensional crisis.
IDOS contributed to the interdisciplinary conference “Climate Change as a Crisis of Nature?”, organised by the Emile Durkheim Center – Crisis Analysis at the University of Bonn, under the direction of Prof. Werner Gephart, in partnership with the IDOS Environmental Governance Department, co-ordinated through Dr Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa.
The conference examined climate change not only as an environmental transformation, but as a profound social, cultural, economic, political, and legal crisis. Bringing together perspectives from the natural, social, and cultural sciences, it explored how different epistemic traditions, governance regimes, economic systems, and normative frameworks shape the ways in which “nature” is imagined, regulated, defended, and transformed.
IDOS colleagues made several important contributions. Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge opened the first day with an afternoon keynote on the promises and paradoxes of sustainability transformations. Dr Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco presented his work on “Nature for Whom?”, addressing nature-based solutions and environmental justice. Dr Niklas Wagner convened a practitioner panel with Claudia Heipe, Melanie Coath, and Jennifer Lenhart, connecting the discussion to the Bonn Climate Change Conference and the Triple COP year. On the second day, Prof. Ines Dombrowsky spoke on sustainable development scenarios and modelling perspectives.
The conference created a timely space to rethink nature not as a passive object of crisis, but as a contested field of knowledge, politics, law, and collective responsibility.
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