Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth (RESCUE)

RESCUE is organised around five Themes:

  • New, emerging and neglected science questions in RESCUE remit
    now, Contributions from social sciences and humanities with regard to the challenges of the Anthropocene
  • To gather a critical mass throughout Europe, for innovative, systemic and integrative science and to contribute to better informed decision making and global sustainable governance.
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  • Collaboration between the natural, social and human sciences in global change studies
    To develop a strategic vision to break down the individual and institutional barriers that hamper collaboration across Europe between scientific disciplines.
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  • Requirements for research methodologies and data
    Global change science is crucially dependent on observing and monitoring many natural, social and human processes, and on conceptualising and modelling them at different space and time scales.
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  • Towards a 'revolution' in education and capacity building
    In education as in science related to global change, the dualism of nature and culture is clearly a great challenges for the next generation of researchers and citizens.
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  • Interface between science and policy, communication and outreach
    Researchers have developed good/best practices, scientific consensus and targets that can feed into research policy development for the benefit of policy makers and other stakeholders.
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