About JSET
The Just Social-Ecological Transformations in Latin America Program (JSET) draws together social and natural scientists alongside practitioners and frontline communities to foster a transdisciplinary community of praxis to support enduring social-environmental sustainability in Latin America by centering justice-based approaches in this work.
We are dedicated to learning about, understanding, and facilitating just and sustainable transitions within Latin America's diverse landscapes. We integrate social and ecological perspectives, prioritize community engagement and knowledge co-production, and foreground questions of justice to address the complex challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality.
JSET is based at Colorado State University in Fort Collins in the Warner College of Natural Resources.
Dr. Joel E. Correia and Dr. Andrea Baudoin-Farah are co-Directors .
Program Overview
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality are critical challenges facing our world today. Industrialized globalization, with its focus on rapid resource extraction, contributes to these problems and creates environmental degradation and social conflict, with acute challenges and unique opportunities for change in Latin America. JSET responds to these challenges through transdisciplinary research, education, partnerships, and action.
We convene diverse actors to engage in dialogue, knowledge co-production, action research, and educational training to address complex relationships between conservation, sustainability, climate change, social justice, and development in Latin America.
A core question motivates our work: How do we facilitate just transitions that avoid reproducing existing inequalities, environmental degradation, and social conflict while leading to enduring social-ecological transformations?
JSET started in August 2023 with support of a Colorado State University Warner College of Natural Resources Dean’s Grant for Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Wicked Problems.