Research

Research activities

It’s 2026, last year of our Integrate NbS project. With Violeta Furlan, we are facilitating our last workshops in Bilbao and evaluating all Integrative Labs with research teams. We are about to submit a paper describing the evaluation framework we have developed, and will contribute to reflexivity and learning in our final meeting in Söngdal next Sep, hosted by our coordinator WNRI.

And, there are exciting news! Irmelin Gram-Hanssen from WNRI led a successful research proposal for creating a centre for Sustainable Land Use in Norway. For the next 8 years (!), we will support the LANDFUTURES centre, working with transformative transdisciplinary research. What a unique opportunity to craft something care-fully, slowly, something that endures.

My beloved María Mancilla got me enrolled in another adventure: a research network exploring conflict and collaboration not as opposites relational dynamics but as entangled and co-evolving processes in environmental governance. Together with Blanca González, they co-facilitated three workshops with scholars working on these topics with different angles and methodologies. We had fun! and now we’re writing. 

What else for this year? We reframed our research collective at BC3  as the Participatory Processes and Care Research. We keep growing out of interaction, trust and mutual support. We have a little surprise cooking in the oven…more soon!  Ah! I recently submitted a paper entitled ‘Social-Ecological Affective Arrangements: diving with a small sea of many seas’. I am really proud of this work, based on interviews I conducted in the Mar Menor. It includes hardcore conceptual and methodological development, and enabled me to go deep into affect and emotions theory (especially with Jan Slaby & collaborators broad framework of affective relationality).

New research lines

• Conflict-sensitive knowledge co-production
• Affective turn in sustainability science
• Societal polarisation and socialecological transformations

Previous research lines

• Water governance
• Water-Food-Ecosystem nexus
• Societal metabolism
• Science for governance & actionable knowledge
• Narrative research

Projects

Active:

• LANDFUTURES: Sustainable land use through transformative research and practice
• Integrate NbS: Fulfilling the Transformative Potential of Nature-Based Solutions: From Fragmentation to Integration
• Ramón y Cajal Fellowship: Knowledge co-production for the governance of wicked water–food–ecosystem problems

Closing:

• ANT Mental Health: Climate Crisis, Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene. An approach from Historical Ontology
• SSH Centre: Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence
• Shared Dialogues: Enabling shared dialogues and reflections on the Mar Menor environmental conflict