The Nature-Based Transformations: Evolving Human-Nature Interactions under Changing Climate thematic working group and the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA) invite you to their webinar on Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 09:00 CET.

ℹ️ About the webinar: Places and the attachments they foster are crucial to quality of life, yet remain underexplored – and therefore largely unstructured – in research on post-growth transitions. Drawing on Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development approach, we explore to what extent “loved keystone places” can contribute to the realisation of a good quality of life beyond material consumption. In a rural village in inland Catalonia, we used mobile and inclusive methods to ask people which places matter to them and why. Walking, as a relational approach brings together people, movement, and the local environment into one story. We discuss what such situated perspectives can make visible for rural communities, place-based research, and local post-growth strategies in rural settings. See the related article here.

ℹ️ About the speaker: Julia Grosinger is an interdisciplinary human geographer researching place attachments and quality of life across rural landscapes in the European South. Her work combines place-based, relational, and mobile approaches with qualitative indicators to support local municipalities. Currently at Université Grenoble-Alpes, she studies the potential of art-based methodologies to facilitate collective water management in a French Alpine village.

🗓️ Tuesday, 27 October 2026
🕑 09:00 CET / 10:00 CAT / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 19:00 AEST
🔗 Join the webinar here