Bridges

Thomas Reuter (WAAS) on the ethics of care in human-centered sustainability science

Dr. Thomas Reuter of the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences reflects on a central challenge facing the research community and their societal partners at the second BRIDGES Coalition establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, 11-12 June 2019. That challenge, he explains, is to frame new narratives of nature that tell the story of a sustainable future based on an ethics of care.

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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