About
The Strategic ENvironment and SUstainability (SENSU) branch of CEG-IST is dedicated to research on sustainability transitions using strategic lenses, conducting theoretical and practical research in three main topics: 1) Strategies in Transitions for Sustainability; 2) Strategic Environmental and Sustainability Assessment; and 3) Social Innovation, resilience and governance.
Our research is grounded on four key scientific foundations: strategic thinking, complexity theory, resilience theory and systems thinking. We see our role in creating a strategic and systems thinking culture in policy, planning and assessment, looking at the environment not as a barrier but as an added-value, and at sustainability not as an alternative form of environmental management, but as the outcome in desirable futures. We conduct participatory action research and use qualitative and transversal approaches, following constructivism and transversality paradigms to offer new development insights. In our research, ssustainability is a moving target engaging the intertwining of multiple dimensions.
