SCP23: SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference "Transforming consumption-production systems toward just and sustainable futures" (July 5-8, 2023, in Wageningen)
SCP23: SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference "Transforming consumption-production systems toward just and sustainable futures" (July 5-8, 2023, in Wageningen)

Organizing Committee

 

 WUR

Mary Greene is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Sustainable Consumption at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. With projects spanning Europe, Asia and Africa, her work explores the role and experience of householders in innovations towards sustainable production and consumption systems. Employing qualitative, cross cultural methods her work investigates the potential of social practice perspectives for unlocking unsustainable consumption patterns across domains of food, mobility, energy and material consumption. Mary is commited to social impact and sits on several international executive boards, including the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) European branch, the European Sociological Association’s Consumption Research Group, and the editorial advisory board of the journal Consumption & Society. 

Mary sees this conference as a critical opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss, debate, and exchange insights for bringing about transformative change in sustainable consumption and production.
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Sigrid Wertheim-Heck is Associate Professor in Global Food System Sustainability at the Environmental Policy Group (ENP) of Wageningen University, and Principal Investigator at the Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) Institute on urban food system transformation and board member of TABLE a global platform for knowledge exchange on the future of food.

Her research agenda focuses on transformations towards more sustainable, healthy, safe and inclusive food systems. Projects across Europe, Asia and Africa bring together three areas of research, namely sustainable consumption, governance practices and global-local dynamics. Holding a PhD in consumption sociology Sigrid takes an ‘everyday fare’ perspective on advancing food system sustainability, departing from situated perspectives in which evolving practices and arrangements locally are tightly interlinked with the national, regional and global scale. ‘I regard this conference as an indispensable space for exchange – critical reflection, cross-fertilization and inspiration – required to advance sustainability transformations on the science for society interface.’
Daniel Fischer is Associate Professor for Consumer Communication and Sustainability at the Strategic Communication Group (COM) at Wageningen University and Research. With his SuCo2 research group, he explores how more sustainable ways of living and consuming can be facilitated through communication and learning in ways that increase reflexivity in learners and – in an educational tradition – help them reshape their relations to the consumer societies that they have been born, encultured, and socialized into in the industrialized world. The conference is a great opportunity for him to bring together people from different communities of SCP research and practice with whom he works. His ultimate hope is that the conference will become a place to build bridges, learn from each other, and thereby better understand and promote much-needed transformational processes. 

 

  Julia Shen is a lecturer in Consumer Communication and Sustainability at the Strategic Communication Group at Wageningen University and Research. With a background in history, political science and consumer behavior, Julia examines the interplay between identity and consumption. More specifically, she focuses on ontological (in)security and its relation to consumption behavior and patterns. Julia’s wish for the conference is for it to be a platform for innovative and inspiring research and other projects concerning sustainable consumption and production. 

 

SCORAI

 

Halina Brown is Professor Emerita of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University, U.S.A.; a Fellow at Tellus Institute; a co-founder and board member of SCORAI, and the Chair of Citizens Commission on Energy in Newton, Massachusetts. Her academic research and teaching have spanned from risk assessment of environmental pollutants to environmental health policy and corporate environmental management, to institutionalization of sustainability reporting, to socio-technical transitions. During the past decade and half, she focused on understanding the complex system of consumption-based society and the pathways toward more sustainable lifestyles, with emphasis on urban settings.  Brown authored dozens of articles and four books, and is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “I hope that this conference will form lasting bridges among researchers, policy makers and activists”.
 

 

Philip J. Vergragt is a climate activist in Newton, MA, USA; a Professor Emeritus of Technology Assessment at TU Delft, Netherlands; and a Research Professor at Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA. He is one of the co-founders and a current Board member of SCORAI. In Newton, he co-chairs the Electric Vehicles Task Force; and is an advisory member of the Energy Commission. He got a PhD in chemistry at Leiden University in 1976. His current research interests are sustainable consumption, sustainable cities, and communication for sustainable development. He is the (co)author of more than 100 scientific publications and five books. My hope for this conference is to rekindle the SCORAI community, to exchange great new ideas with great people, and to have fun and drinks together.

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Ginnie Guillen-Hanson is a researcher, lecturer and project manager at the Gamification Group at Tampere University, Finland, where she’s currently finalizing her PhD research on gamifying sustainable consumption. She’s a member of SCORAI’s board and co-chair of the Future Earth Knowledge Action Network on systems of sustainable consumption and production steering committee. With 20 years of experience as a practitioner in programs of sustainable consumption, business innovation, and consumer engagement across the globe and in collaboration with all societal stakeholders, her research interests span from game-based communication, design thinking, and the circular economy to human-technology interaction, sustainable consumption in the metaverse, and translation of research findings into everyday life practices. 

 

 

ERSCP

 

 Dr. Frieder Rubik is senior researcher at Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Germany. He is research interest focuses on sustainable consumption and production policies and patterns, innovation and market transformation. During the conference, Dr Rubik is looking forward to exchange interesting ideas and insights (and people), learning, inspiration and fun.

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 Jaco Quist is an assistant professor in Sustainable Innovation and Transitions at the Energy & Industry Section of the Technology, Policy & Management Faculty, Delft University of Technology. He has completed a dissertation on participatory backcasting that was published by Eburon Publishers in 2007 as Backcasting for a sustainable future: the impact after 10 years. His research and teaching evolves around sustainable innovation and transitions, in particular around visions, participatory backcasting and transition management.

 

 

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