Dr. Mollie Chapman

Research area

My current research centers on developing leverage points to sustainable food systems via a focus on human-nature relationships and values. I am interested in how a broader conception of what it means to value the more-than-human world, can create space to bridge divides across conflicts in biodiversity and climate debates. To this end, I focus my work on plural approaches to values, or in other words, considering diverse value concepts that cannot be summed together. As a transdisciplinary scholar, I work collaboratively with government, NGO and other civil society groups to develop research that can foster transformation to sustainability. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I collaborate across social sciences, natural sciences and humanities, though my primary training is in social sciences. 

Geographic Foci: Switzerland; Latin America; USA; Canada

Research Interests: sustainability transformations; inter- and transdisciplinary research; food systems; farmer motivations; ecological restoration; conservation social sciences; relational values, environmental values, cultural values of nature; biodiversity & ecosystem services; incentive programs; qualitative methods