Sustainability and Human-Nature Relationships

Welcome to a keynote speak with Anna Deplazes Zemp, University of Zurich!

The inter- and transdisciplinary discourse on relational values has raised an awareness of the contextual and culturally shaped meaning that nature has for many people in specific human-nature relationships. In the environmental policy discourse around IPBES relational values are invoked in order to motivate appreciation of nature and consequently more ecologically sustainable behaviour. After a brief introduction to my account of relational values I will ask how this value category can serve as a starting point for thinking about the role of human-nature relationships in sustainability.

The lecture will also be live-streamed. Join on Zoom

About the speaker

Anna Deplazes Zemp is senior researcher in the Philosophical Institute (Ethics Research Institute) and project leader for the University Research Priority Programme Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP GCB), both at the University of Zurich (UZH; Zurich, Switzerland).

The keynote is a part of the symposium Sustainability, Ethics, and the Environment NSU Winter Symposium 2024. 

Other public events within the symposium:

10 January 19:00: Panel discussion: Ethics and Sustainability – The Crucial Questions.

12 January 13:15: Keynote: The kaleidoscope and the nesting doll: a re-examination of resilience as a thick concept - Henrik Thorén, Lund University. 

The symposium is organisied by the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious studies with support of UTRI (Umeå Transformation Research Initiative).