“It’s time for a bigger conversation about genetic engineering in food and farming – one that turns down the noise on the debate by bringing in wider perspectives. On this site you’ll find news, views and links to help make the discussion more open, constructive and forward thinking. ”
Published: 05-08-2024
In its 2019 report on Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the UK government describes a future characterised by a fusion of technologies and a blurring of the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds. Prof Brigitte Nerlich, offers her thoughts on responsibility in a bio-hybrid world where fact meets fiction.
Published: 17-06-2024
Who do the ‘techno-optimists’ and gene-editing boosters speak for? As Prof David Christian Rose argued at a recent conference it isn’t necessarily farmers or citizens.
Hosted by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Centre for Governance in Complexity (ECGC), this webinar followed the launch of the EEA report Governance in Complexity: Sustainability Governance Under Highly Uncertain and Complex Conditions with a panel debate with four distinguished panellists around the systemic and complex nature of sustainability challenges and the knowledge and governance responses needed to deal with them.
This was an excellent opportunity to to hear from experts in their fields and bring some real depth into the discussion around sustainability governance. The report Governance in Complexity can be downloaded here and its companion report Transformative Resilience: The Key to Governing Europe's Sustainability Transitions in the Polycrisis can be downloaded here.
