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Lecture on Planetary Futures
26. Juni 2025 - "Engaging Human Aspirations to Motivate Progress Towards a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together" (Hybrid-Veranstaltung)
*Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache stattfinden*
Engaging Human Aspirations to Motivate Progress Towards a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together
Can human societies shape a better planetary future? Prevailing approaches aimed at addressing nature’s decline tend to focus on limiting human harm to environments and species. This presentation will introduce a new approach based on measuring and promoting national progress towards delivering mutually beneficial relationships among people and the rest of the living world in terms that people widely understand and value. Inspired by the capabilities approach to human development and the Human Development Index (HDI), a new international metric of progress towards a future where people and nature thrive together is under development as part of the UNDP Human Development Report in 2026.
Prof. Erle Ellis
University of Maryland, Baltimore County & Fellow am Panel on Planetary Thinking
Erle Ellis ist Professor für Geographie und Umweltwissenschaften an der University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Als weltweit hochzitierter Forscher untersucht er die globale Ökologie menschlicher Landschaften im Anthropozän. Er unterrichtet Umweltwissenschaften und Landschaftsökologie an der UMBC und hat an der Harvard Graduate School of Design unterrichtet. Er ist Autor des US National Nature Assessment und des IPBES Transformative Change Assessment, Fellow im Global Land Programm, Senior Fellow des Breakthrough Institutes, ehemaliges Mitglied der Anthropocene Working Group und Visiting Fellow an der Martin School von Oxford. 2018 veröffentlichte er das Buch Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction.