
The research unit Lives and Ecologies studies how humans seek to shape their lives, together with humans and other living beings, under conditions of change, disruption and destruction of ecological and societal resources. How do they search for possibilities of survival, continuity, and good life? How do processes such as mobility and displacement, pollution and biodiversity loss, or wars and conflicts reorder human-environment relations, livelihoods, and intergenerational life trajectories? Research in the unit is organised in two thematic conversations: human-environmental relations, and life trajectories and livelihoods across generations.