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Posted in News on Nov 18, 2025.

LivCom Awards: Global Recognition for Liveable Communities

The International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom Awards), launched in 1997, is a major, UN-backed competition recognising international best practices in local environmental management and development. BRIDGES is delighted to have recently welcomed LivCom Awards as Coalition Members. The LivCom Awards Finals 2025 is taking place in Avcilar Istanbul, Türkiye from 18-21 November, 2025. Steven Hartman will be sharing comments via video, at the LivCom Awards opening ceremony, as Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Coalition in UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme.

Posted in News on Nov 17, 2025.

Wales putting intergenerational justice into practice

Today's inspiring and informative 'WIN Talks, From policy to practice: The Well-being of Future Generations Act in action', brought together the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Derek Walker, Professor Martin Johnes, and Professor Luci Attala to explore how Wales is advancing the vision of the Well-being of Future Generations Act and how research communities can strengthen its impact. Together, the speakers demonstrated how Wales is driving forward a unique model of research-informed, future-oriented governance and how academic partnerships are helping to turn the Act’s ambitions into lived practice.

Posted in News on Nov 13, 2025.

José Manuel ‘s beautiful account of his time at the Vatican

It’s a delight to share this translation of José Manuel ‘s beautiful account of his time at the Vatican, where he recently attended the Jubilee of Knowledge.

Posted in Coastal Tales News Item, News, Publications on Nov 13, 2025.

For the Love of the Sea: Technocratic Environmentalism and the Struggle to Sustain Community-Led Aquaculture

This article argues that sustainability governance in small-scale regenerative aquaculture arises less from formal regulation than from the relational, ethical, and temporal labour of practitioners. Based on an ethnographic study of Câr-y-Môr, Wales’s first community-owned regenerative ocean farm, the research combines over 250 h of participant observation, 25 interviews, and document analysis with transdisciplinary humanities-informed sustainability science (THiSS).

Posted in News on Nov 12, 2025.

CASRI (2024-2027) SRIA co-design process

BRIDGES Luci Attala is part of the CASRI group undertaking a co-design matchmaking process between potential funders/programme managers at national and European levels, to establish where research funding should be funnelled.