Towards Spatial-Environmental Justice
Creating and Nurturing Transnational Climate-Aware Knowledge Network (TCaKN)
"Knowledge networks are constellations of people and teams across
boundaries (e.g., spatial or disciplinary) to develop, distribute, combine,
and apply collective knowledge to address a problem"
- Feldman et al 2009
Webinar on Resolving the Wicked Challenges of Climate Crisis
"Collaborative Methods, Process and Tools from the sub-continent"
Date and Time
6th September 10:00 to 12:45 (IST)
Join us for a discussion on collaborative case-studies (in the climate action space) from across the seven countries of the subcontinent. The discussion will focus on collaborative methods and tools as well as attendant successes and challenges across boundaries and scales.
Please find the Webinar Agenda and Concept Note for your reference.
Register for the Webinar here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdOmorjItGN2GzNNg05z6b9ZNLKqb-vtD
Supported by Frontiers Champions Programme, Dr. Anjali Karol Mohan will lead and nurture a Transnational Climate-aware Knowledge Network(s) (TCaKN) across the Indian subcontinent.
Our(Sattva Trust and Integrated Design) work at the intersection of unprecedented urbanisation, escalating fragmentation of natural ecologies, attendant biodiversity loss; changing climates and extreme events. Cumulatively, these have impacted the poor and the marginalised disproportionately reiterating the need for spatial and environmental justice.
Collaborative working, we argue, is the way forward.
The Vision
The TCaKN seeks to move beyond mere information sharing to create and disseminate knowledge around (re)solving the wicked crises of unhinged urbanisation and changing climates. Towards this end, it will mobilise stakeholders - across diverse domains, spatialities, scales and contexts - working at various points on the continuum between grass-roots interventions on one hand and plan and policy on the other.
The physiographically diverse and rapidly urbanising Indian subcontinent shares common concerns of unprecedented, largely unplanned urbanisation; social and ecological degradation; and escalating extreme events. Most significantly, urbanisation in these cities is characterised by informality, a normality rather than an exception. (Roy 2005, Myers 2011).
Through a process of transboundary learning and sharing, the TCaKN aims to create and channelise knowledge on these shared concerns albeit in different geographic, cultural, and socio-economic contexts.
Source: Countries in the Global South, Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)©
Forging a Diverse Network
We invite organisations, networks, academia and individuals working towards environmental and spatial justice from across the sub-continent to bring in their myriad expertise and perspectives to the TCaKN. The TCaKN will focus on climate action - adaptation and mitigation - premised on collaborative methods, approaches and tools.
"There is perhaps no mainland part of the world better marked off by nature as a region or a 'realm' by itself than the Indian subcontinent”
(Dudley Stamp, 1957)
The Engagement
The TCaKN envisages two stages of engagement across 10 months
Stage One: A webinar
Stakeholders from the Indian sub-continent share their work at the intersection of climate change, urbanisation and informality, allowing for cross learning through dialogue, networking and knowledge exchange. The webinar will present case studies around climate adaptation (and mitigation) through collaboration towards co-production.
Stage Two: A two to three day in-person convene
Day 1 - Networking and knowledge exchange
Day 2-3 - An urban lab aimed at researchers and practitioners keen to engage on collaborative methods, tools and processes towards co-production.
If you are working at
• The intersection of urbanisation, changing climates and informality
• Anywhere on the continuum linking action to plan and policy
• Varying scales – micro to macro – employing collaborative models of research and interventions
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