Human activ­i­ties jeop­ar­dise the hab­it­abil­i­ty of the plan­et and our capac­i­ty to for­mu­late com­pre­hen­sive and demo­c­ra­t­ic solu­tions for its restoration. 

The MSCA-fund­ed EPOG-DN (Econom­ic Poli­cies for the Glob­al bifur­ca­tion - Doctor­al Network) project aims to estab­lish a com­mu­ni­ty of econ­o­mists capa­ble of col­lab­o­rat­ing with var­i­ous dis­ci­plines, sec­tors and stake­hold­ers to address eco­log­i­cal chal­lenges. It gath­ers 7 full part­ners (ben­e­fi­cia­ries) and 13 asso­ci­at­ed part­ners from dif­fer­ent fields and sectors.

This project explores the path­ways toward achiev­ing strong sus­tain­abil­i­ty, where social, eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal objec­tives are not sub­sti­tutable with each oth­er. The project intro­duces the con­cept of glob­al bifur­ca­tion, which encom­pass­es a range of mul­ti­di­men­sion­al and sys­temic process­es. The project pro­pos­es a dis­tinc­tive strat­e­gy for tack­ling the com­plex­i­ty of glob­al bifur­ca­tion, which involves a socio-tech­ni­cal, socio-eco­nom­ic and socio-eco­log­i­cal per­spec­tive, all work­ing in con­cert to devel­op a sys­temic approach.

Pho­to cred­it: Alessan­dra Calosso