Research grant allocated to the “Bright Spots” project

ecoSERVICES and the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) receive a 2-year grant from Future Earth to lead a Future Earth Fast-Track Initiative that aims to solicit, explore, and develop a suite of plausible visions of a “Good Anthropocene”.

“Bright Spots: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene” is one of the eight initiatives launched by Future Earth in August 2014 to accelerate global sustainable development.

Bright Spots is a Future Earth Fast-Track Initiative (FTI) co-led by ecoSERVICES and the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), with Elena Bennett, ecoSERVICES co-chair, as its principal investigator. The FTI is undertaken in collaboration with several to-be Future Earth projects – namely, CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Earth System Governance (ESG), ecoHEALTH, Global Land Project (GLP) and Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE) and the South African Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS). It has been funded for a period of 2 years starting in September 2014.

Bright Spots will explore visions of futures that are socially and ecologically desirable, just and sustainable and identify and analyse places on Earth that demonstrate one or more elements of these positive visions, i.e. the “bright spots”.

Read more about Bright Spots here.