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Sinan Akilli on the need to address the more-than-human world in sustainability science

Environmental humanities scholar Sinan Akilli (Deputy Dean of Humanities at Cappadocia University, Turkey) reflects on the need for integrated sustainability science to address the more-than-human world during the visioning discussions taking place at the BRIDGES establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 11-12 June 2019.

Credit: Originally published by Bifrost. Materials were recorded by Lea Rekow in Paris 2019, and are published by courtesy of the BRIDGES coalition partners and licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

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