The conference, entitled “PECS II: Place based transdisciplinary research for global sustainability”, will be structured around 4 overarching themes:

1. Context-specific pathways towards sustainability
2. Challenges and opportunities for informing global sustainability from place-based research
3. Social-ecological dynamics of ecosystem services: synergies, trade-offs and links to human wellbeing
4. Cross-scale connections and feedbacks that impact structure and dynamics of social-ecological systems