TRACK 1  l  IDENTIFICATION OF STRUCTURAL DRIVERS OF VULNERABILITY, CRISES & INSECURITY AFFECTING SES

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• Geopolitical risks and SES

• Interplay between environment, peace and security

• Environmental and climate risks as drivers of interdependent crises of SES

• Environmental and climate induced conflicts and their impacts on SES

• Food insecurity and poverty as drivers of national and human insecurity 

• Human dynamics of climate change and biodiversity decline

• Environmental and climate induced migration and human displacement

• Food, water and health insecurity as a consequence and a driver of the non-viability of SES 

• Land grabbing, land degradation, and land-use change as a challenge for the resilience and viability of SES

• Livelihood security for forest dependent and indigenous communities reeling under the impact of climate change

• Unsustainable and fossil fuel based growth and its consequences for SES

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TRACK 2  l  INTERDEPENDENCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: AREAS OF INTEGRATION AND SYNERGY

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• Governance of the Water-Energy-Biodiversity-Climate-Food-Health Nexus

• Food and health security from a geopolitical perspective

• Indigenous food and small-scale food production systems from a climate and biodiversity perspective

• Biotechnology, health and food: Risk and impact evaluation​

• Bio-security as a driver of health and food security

• Energy security from a climate and food governance perspective 

• Human security oriented energy transition 

• Human-animal health nexus 

• Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction

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TRACK 3  l  SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THROUGH THE GENDER LENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

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• Unequal impacts of climate and landuse change on women and men

• Gender inequality in workplace (especially in rural areas), land ownership and user rights

• Women farmers’ focus on food crops crucial to meet food security goals

• Women’s unequal role in aquatic ecosystems

• Collecting water, fuel, fodder and supplementary food:  A women’s daily burden exacerbated by environmental and climate change

• Women’s current climate adaptation strategies 

• Women’s untapped potential to meet environmental challenges

• Capacity building of women to meet challenges in conflict and natural disaster situations

• Gender mainstreaming in health, food, and energy security strategies

• The contribution of Environmental Humanities – as an emerging field – to Earth and Social Sciences

• Environmental philosophy and the growth of Social-Ecological System oriented eco-consciousness 

• Ecosmopolitics and the virtues of material ecocriticism

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TRACK 4  l IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING RESPONSE MECHANISMS FROM EMERGING APPROACHES AND PARADIGMS + SHIFTS TO BE MADE TO FOSTER THE VIABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

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• Promotion of SDGs from a Social-Ecological System Approach

• Ecosystem and human security-based adaptation and mitigation

• Sustainable and climate-smart food and health systems

• Food sovereignty and democracy versus food security

• Socially inclusive and eco-climate smart production and consumption systems 

• Just ecological and energy transition 

• Environmental and human vulnerability from human security and human rights approaches

• Climatic disaster response mechanisms to ensure food and health security in emergency cases

• Empowering vulnerable actors for inclusive and equitable governance of SES

• Co-viability of SES

• Environmental rights and justice 

• Redistribution between humans and territories within the perspective of climate adaptation and mitigation and biodiversity conservation

• Environmental peace-keeping and building 

• Prevention and resolution of natural resource conflicts from an environmental and climate perspective 

• Climate and environmental action, conflict and peace-building

• Vulnerability Analysis of food insecure areas

• 'Just transition' towards a climate and biological secure future

• Resilience trade-off affecting SES

• SES under scientific and political uncertainty