Resources

Avoiding The Prisoner's Dilemma

Inter-organisational protectionism is creating a prisoner's dilemma for ecological security. When we hoard knowledge or resources, we can impede global cooperation and action. We want to push back against this race to the bottom by enacting the transparency and cooperation that we should expect from all actors. To start with, we're creating open-source solutions, democratizing access to scholarship, and prioritising user-led outputs. There's a long way to go but the process is critical.

Now that you've suffered through the lecture, why not check out some of the resources we're putting out there...

Podcasts

We know that there's nothing people love more than sitting down to read a lengthy journal article filled with technical jargon. But if (for some weird reason) this doesn't excite you, we're producing podcasts that you can listen to instead.

In doing so, we want to make nuanced climate and environmental security insights more accessible, particularly on subjects that are under-represented or overly-simplified in policy writing and wider media discourse.

Ooh, I'll listen to those!

Roleplaying Games and Wargaming

There are lots of things we understand in principle. We understand that we must 'act now' to avoid worse climate insecurity later on. We understand that the road to security doesn't end and that it is paved with compromises and disagreements. But understanding things in principle doesn't mean we act on them.

Serious games can help to short-circuit this, by providing us with primacy of experience. Unfortunately, serious games on environmental security and sustainability have tended to be limited in number, expensive to run, and restricted to small groups of officials. That's why we've been progressively developing free-to-use and easy-to-run games. Because, ultimately there is no better teacher than experience*.

*Caveats to this rule include Neil deGrasse Tyson and cat videos with subliminal messaging.

Let me at them!

Alternative Futures

Climate change, environmental insecurity and resource transitions generate an infinite array of equally plausible futures. Yet we are surrounded by stories that focus on a narrow interpretation of the future and a handful of themes. What's more, these futures often present themselves as 'realist' without acknowledging the vast limitations surrounding our ability to forecast the future.

We want to change this narrative, by providing greater access to alternative visions of the future that are rooted in the insights of a far wider and more diverse set of experts.

Beam me up...

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Member Publications

Yes, we know that we made a joke earlier about lengthy journal articles and technical jargon but... please read our articles. They're really good and we put a lot of work into them. Also, referencing them using a clear and consistent citation style is a really good way to make friends at parties.

We've put together a range of our member publications, so you can see the kind of innovative research happening across the network.

Fine, if you insist.