The GIST Hub drives innovative research to support sustainability transitions, with a focus on new governance and innovation models. In addition to basic research in areas such as mining and the extractive industry, climate adaptation, circular economy, and social justice, our interdisciplinary collaboration provides important insights for policy and practice.
Current projects related to GIST-Hub
- Transition to Sustainable Agriculture in Central Chile: Agroecological Practices and Ecosystem Services Awareness Among Fruit Farmers
Project Lead: Eduardo Arellano - Traditional soil knowledge among rural communities in Curarrehue, Chile
Project Lead: Eduardo Arellano - Ecosystem Service Mapping of Tree-Based Vegetation in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Chile
Project Lead: Eduardo Arellano - Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in Fruit Trees and Vineyards
Project Lead: Eduardo Arellano - CAPES UC researchline
Project Lead: Eduardo Arellano - Planetary Healing as a transformativeprocess
Project Lead: Prof. Eveline Dürr - Social Networks and Socio-ecological Sustainability Project (SNA-SES)
Project Lead: Alejandro Espinoza - Sustainability Science in Practice: From Global Challenges to Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Project Lead: Alejandro Espinoza - Local Procurement in Chile and Peru
Project Lead: Prof. Johannes Glückler - Imaginary Glaciers
Project Lead: Cristian Simonetti - Millennium Nucleus on Citizen Technoscience for Socioenvironmental Transformation (CITEC)
Project Lead: Sebastian Ureta - Worlds of Algae: Exploring the emergence of marine transition experiments in Chile (PDF, 63 KB)
Project Lead: Sebastian Ureta