Sharing Lessons to Advance Multidisciplinary Collaborations

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen participated in a panel at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) held in Portland, Oregon from March 25–29th. The session, Building and Sustaining Multidisciplinary Environmental Partnerships, brought together experts from government, academia, and NGOs to share strategies for advancing inclusive cross-sector collaborations that can address today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Vanessa shared insights from her work on transdisciplinary and transnational approaches to coastal sustainability, highlighting lessons from the COAST card project and emphasizing the importance of integrating local knowledge into environmental governance.

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