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Posted in Blog, Cologne News on Oct 19, 2026.

Humanities Perspectives On Climate Modelling Can Help To Identify Limits And Opportunities For Understanding Climate Change (BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights #5)

Research in the Environmental Humanities recognises the need for better cooperation and concerted collaboration between the sciences and the humanities when it comes to understanding, assessing and ameliorating current and emerging environmental crises. This research identifies critical root causes, underlines the role of imaginaries, norms and values, and mobilises knowledge on the import of language and narrative as well as artistic expression in order to assemble more diverse and robust understandings of what it means to live in a world of polycrisis, and to develop novel solutions or pathways for safeguarding or restoring planetary co-habitability.

Posted in Blog on Oct 08, 2026.

Against an Organised Forgetting: The Arts and Humanities for Transformative Change in Public Policy - UNESCO MOST Forum 2026

This text is the intervention of Ms Ellen Dixon for the UNESCO MOST Forum 2026 Closing Panel "Integrating the Humanities into Policy", held on 29 September 2026 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France by invitation of the UNESCO MOST-Bridges Coalition.

Posted in Blog, Coastal Tales News, UWTSD Hub News on Oct 07, 2026.

Still Here: Welsh Coraclemen Meet Alutiiq Fishers

In this piece Gareth Thomas reflects on an extraordinary cross-continental journey that brought Welsh river fishers and Alutiiq communities together in Kodiak. Rooted in the international Coastal TALES project, this story explores how shared stories over salmon stocks, environmental regulation, and cultural survival can connect two vastly different worlds — "It is not every day that you set off from Wales in the middle of the night, bound for Kodiak Island in Alaska with two traditional Welsh coraclemen. But that was exactly what I was doing in August 2026. After four flights and around 36 hours of travelling, we landed at a small local airport to meet our American research colleagues and their Alutiiq partners. Somewhere among our luggage, carefully carried across several thousand miles, was a miniature traditional coracle made by one of the last people in Wales still making them. We unwrapped it in airport car park and breathed a sigh of relief, the fragile miniature boat had made it."

Posted in Blog on Oct 05, 2026.

StadtLandFluss 01: What Does a Landscape Taste Like?

"What happens when we bring together agriculture, tradition, art and culture with food in a way that makes them accessible to as many people as possible? What happens when we pass rural life, cultural heritage, nature conservation and our relationship with consumption on to the next generation in a way that allows us to preserve and strengthen old knowledge while also responding to new challenges? And how can we approach nature conservation in a way that makes people genuinely want to take part?" This blog by Luca Reichmann of our coalition membership organisation, Gaswerkareal, explores how we can bring traditional wisdom and environmental stewardship to life through community-rooted engagement.

Posted in Blog, Coastal Tales News, UWTSD Hub News on Sep 30, 2026.

Yma o Hyd: The Ancient Art of Fishing in Wales, a Documentary

Author: Gareth Thomas. Coracle fishing on West Wales's River Tywi is an ancient tradition facing severe threats from pollution and declining fish stocks. As explored in this blog post, the ethnographic short film Yma o Hyd: The Ancient Art of Fishing in Wales reveals how preserving this unique food culture requires protecting the active livelihoods and ecological knowledge that sustain it.