Climate change related uncertainties are the main threats to the sustainability of societies and their environments. To tackle these challenges, systemic transformations are required. Our project focuses on three cases of transformation in marginal environments in India and Bangladesh, and is concerned with: How transformation happens through bottom up processes in these sites; and how they can be scaled up and facilitate wider societal changes. Both require transdisciplinary co-production and the praxis of transformation which presupposes change in social arrangements and reconstruction by individuals. Our project addresses issues concerning governance, wellbeing, identity and quality of life in relation to transformations to sustainability in a lower middle-income country (India) and a least developed country (Bangladesh). Our results should help inform processes that ultimately improve the quality of life in marginal environments, and build action and capacity among all partners.

TAPESTRY is one of the projects of the program “Transformations to Sustainability (T2S)”. T2S is a international collaborative program funded by NRFACE and Belmont Forum, which contributes to re-structuring the domain of sustainability research by putting the social sciences, as well as the humanities, at the heart of interdisciplinary research on sustainability, making a step change in scale and scope for research programming in this area.

Introduction of TAPESTRY at the NORFACE Network/BELMONT Forum page

                                      at JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency, One of the funder) page

PIs:

Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies at the

   University of Sussex, Professor (United Kingdom)

Nobuhito Ohte, Department of Social Informatics,

   Kyoto University, Professor (Japan)

Synne Movik, Department of Urban and Regional

   Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences,

   Associate Professor (Norway)

Devanathan Parthasarathy, Department of Humanities

   and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,  

   Professor (India)