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While the global pandemic has taken the front stage since the spring of 2020, environmental issues remain as pressing as ever. In this article, I question whether the current liberalized trade and investment regime is consistent with the possibility of an ecological transition and argue that it is not. The organization of a large part of economic activity on a world scale by multinational corporations, with profitability imperatives and relatively short planning horizons, is inherently conducive to an intensification of resource extraction and commodity production. A liberal trade and investment regime gives free rein to these dynamics, which should instead be curtailed in order to achieve the necessary adjustments to sustainable living. As such, this article will explore ways in which the trade and investment regime could be subordinated to ecological and social concerns and contribute to, rather than hinder, an ecological transition.

Educational Processes at the Service of Ecological Transition. Between Architecture and Climate: A Bioclimatic Approach / André De Herde, Marjan Sansen -- Architecture, City, Landscape: The Place of History in Pedagogy Integrating the Climatic Emergency / Anne Coste, Frédéric Dellingér, Theodore Guuinic -- Ecological Transition Architecture Week (ETAW): An Introduction to the Assessment of Risks and Opportunities / Alain Guez, Antoine Steck -- Climate Commons - Educational Research in Action / Edith Akiki, Emmanuel Doutriaux -- Drawing the Thickness of an Environment, Drawing the Thickness of Architecture / Christophe Laurens, Valentin Sanitas, Clément Gaillard, Tibo Labat, Jérémie Buttin -- The Challenges of Ecological Transition Met by Research. Overall Comfort in Elementary Schools with Humid Tropical Climates: Methodology for Adapting Comfort Scales / Magalie Técher, Hassan Ait Haddou -- Urban Green-Blue Grids as a Potential Factor for Regulating Urban Temperature: The Marseille Canal - An Essential Local Opportunity / Séverine Steenhuyse -- Summer Comfort in the Face of Climate Change: Design Adaptation and Rehabilitation / Isabelle Vervisch-Fortuné -- Mutations Project at ENSA Nancy / Cécile Fries-Paiola -- Teaching and Research on Ecological Transition: From Theory to Practice. Form Follows Partnership / Damien Antoni -- Tackling Global Warming in the Ardéche Valley: Project Workshop Narrative / François Nowakowski -- Learning from Toulouse: Lessons from the Bioclimatic Houses of Jean-Pierre Cordier / Clément Gaillard -- The !MPACT Contest: An Opportunity for Architecture Students / Karibati.

Positioning Territorial Ecology in the Scientific and Institutional Context -- Main Methodologies Developed Around Urban and Territorial Metabolism: Contributions and Limitations -- A Wealth Creation Approach for a Territorial Diagnosis Methodology -- Territorial Ecology and the Challenges of the Socio-ecological Transition: Metabolism, Capacity and Resilience -- Principles for Innovative Territorial Projects -- Conclusion.

In light of ecological disasters in China and social alienation among the Chinese people, this article argues that ecology must take precedence over economy, agriculture over industry and finance, and life over money and profit. The article focuses on the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Loving Home Village campaigns and identifies several grassroots initiatives in search for pathways to social and ecological transition. It presents in detail the trajectories of Little Donkey Farm, Liang Shuming Rural Reconstruction Center, Yun Jianli, and Yang Zhengxi, which are examples of how to mobilize both urban and rural communities to participate in social and ecolo- gical transformation.

Presentation at the UNISECO H2020 Final Conference, 18-19 March 2021 https://uniseco-project.eu/final-conference UNISECO is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Learn more about the project: https://uniseco-project.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773901

[EN] Last December 2020, the European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) already approved. RRF will be structured around six pillars. Between them, the first pillar is `green transition¿. Green transition includes the goal of balanced CO2 emissions in 2050. Inside this framework, European transport system must to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This objective implies recovery transport system to sustainable modes. One of main ways to make the change is translate passengers and freight transport from road to railways that avoid greenhouse emissions if it uses electric energy with sustainable origins. To planning the change is important to now the mobility of passengers and freight by road. This article analyses the mobilities¿ situation in Spain by road represented such as network of main nodes and trams, passengers and freight, for medium and large distance in 2017. ; Miralles García, JL. (2021). Road transport corridors to ecological transition in Spain. International Journal of Transport Development and Integration (Online). 5(3):291-301. https://doi.org/10.2495/TDI-V5-N3-291-301 ; S ; 291 ; 301 ; 5 ; 3

Front Cover -- The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Images of Man and Nature -- NATURE INTO CULTURE -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND ITS IMAGERY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2. Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT -- SYSTEMS -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT (continued) -- CULTURE AND ECOLOGY -- RELEVANCE AND POLICY -- RELEVANCE AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3. Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology -- THE PARADIGM -- ENERGY TRANSFORMATION

The multiple challenges of the Anthropocene set a new context for transformative social innovation towards a form of living and working based on the principles of sustainability. Community-based initiatives (CBIs), the most visible representatives of the latter, have started to appear worldwide and are increasingly perceived as a crucial actor in the socio-ecological transition towards sustainability. CBIs are receiving a growing attention from transdisciplinary academia. Yet, there remains a research blind spot on the transformative social innovation dynamics in Portugal. This paper addresses this gap by inquiring into Portugal's CBI dynamics, appearance, buildup, reach and future transitional pathways. Having traversed a rapid and significant growth over the last decade, CBIs, their practices and discourses are still marginalised in Portugal's public arenas. Therefore, this paper argues, Portuguese CBIs remain an untapped resource for socio-ecological transitions and institutional innovation in Portugal. We scrutinize why the latter falter to engage head-on with the public and political spheres and identify key contextual changes and premises that determine CBIs social innovation potential in Portugal: a) CBIs need to engage the existent institutional landscape and become politicized change actors in order to sit at key decisionmaking processes, and b) CBIs' full potential is unlikely to bloom without favourable institutional frameworks and policy environments. This paper applies a value-based lens onto social transformation frameworks and engages in a wider theoretical debate on the role of niche actors, thereby adding to the existing literature on socio-ecological transitions. Based on an actor-, politics- and governance-centered approach, we ultimately inquire into Portugal's CBI's agency and how it can bring about wider structural change in a socio-ecological transitions. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion