Sumários
Agroforestry
10 Maio 2025, 09:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato
This session is part of the Key territorial challenges that make up the first part of the ACOT Module.
In this session we take a systemic view to the un-sustainability of the current global agroforestry through the lens of the evolution of global food production and consumption dynamics and its current key challenges
Climate Action and Public Policy - Key Concepts and Issues
3 Maio 2025, 11:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato
This session breaks down a series of key concepts regarding the framing of public action and climate change. It addresses the need for a systemic view, what this means and how can we develop it. It also introduces climate action as a complex adaptive system that is peppered with the so called wicked problems, or super wicked problems. The session wraps up focusing on the changing nature of the future and how can we better positions ourselves to debate it.
Climate Action and Public Policy - Theory of change > Transition Studies
11 Abril 2025, 14:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato
This session is an introduction to Transition Studies as the Theory of Change underpinning the ACOT's module approach. The core assumptions, concepts, analytical and methodological frameworks used are presented as well as an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of this conceptual approach. Particular attention is given to the concepts of prospective path dependency, transition pathways and lock-in mechanisms.
Climate Action and Public Policy - Knowledge and Institutional Innovation
4 Abril 2025, 16:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato
In this session we start from how the current form of global capitalism became ecologically and socially unsustainable. We examine how so much depends on a shift in human values. Human values can change; they are not natural laws. This session debates this value change. In society as a whole and in institucional settings in particular. The gateway to this debate is through the role of learning, the process through which information becomes knowledge. In fact the creation of knowledge in social networks is a key characteristic of the dynamics of culture. In the face of climate change challenges, and to thrive under conditions of accelerating change you have to be learning all the time. We look into how this is affected by the emergence of alt-knowledge and post-truth politics. We critically examine how knowledge brokerage is a fundamental part in helping public policy play a much needed role in shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions.
Climate Action and Public Policy - Climate Governance
28 Março 2025, 18:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato
This session introduces the concept fo Climate Governance. It addresses its multi-stakeholder conceptual framing, its opportunities and pitfalls. Taking stock of the concept of Climate Justice we delve into the politics underpinning the current climate action practices worldwide.