Society and Environment Research Group (SERG)

Description

The Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) aims to revolutionise prevailing analytical approaches to environmental studies, fostering equitable, inclusive, and sustainable pathways for future lifestyles on Earth. SERG members conduct diverse research on environmental issues, providing crucial evidence and arguments to support the achievement of more inclusive and egalitarian environmental policies and practices. Research interests encompass water governance, global urbanization, terrestrial geo-engineering, waste management, political ecologies, and climate change policies. In particular, SERG members make significant contributions to contemporary urban political ecology and nature/society theory.

SERG members actively challenge environmental injustices and exclusions while seeking a deeper understanding of citizen protests and contemporary political legitimacy. In this context, they shed light on the locations, actors, motivations, and mechanisms that foster environmentally friendly practices in the 21st century.

This involves analysing sustainability experiments and investigating urban governance, with a focus on processes such as ecological gentrification, urban greening, and carbon accounting. SERG members explore the intersections and entanglements between human and non-human processes and dynamics. They conduct research to transform key aspects of socio-ecological systems, including energy supply, water usage, and the disposal and reuse of commodities.

Contributing to global theoretical debates, SERG members delve into topics such as social and environmental vulnerability, democratization, political ecology, and the potential for emancipatory socio-ecological transformations. By studying contemporary environmental thought and actions, SERG members actively advance the pursuit of ecologically and socially just transitions amidst the increasingly urgent context of global environmental change.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Contact details

On the map

Go to larger version of this map

Categorisation

Type

Project Tags

University affiliation(s)

University of Manchester
Manchester