Hello!
We are excited to invite you to the 2nd session of a new webinar series looking at the planetary boundaries from interdisciplinary perspectives, cohosted by the Sustainable Enterprises Initiative (SEI) and Institute on Ecosystems (IOE) at Montana State University.
On Wednesday February 25th (9-10am US Mountain Time), we’ll host Dr. Cathy Zabinski (Montana State University) for a discussion on the role of soil ecology in sustainable agriculture and wine grape growing (“terroir”) - “Value-Added Attributes of Wine: The Science and Magic of Terroir”.
Please register for this webinar on Zoom with this link.
This is the 1st of 3 webinar sessions this spring related to the ‘land system change’ planetary boundary, defined as “The transformation of natural landscapes, such as through deforestation and urbanization, disrupts habitats and biodiversity and diminishes ecological functions like carbon sequestration and moisture recycling. Globally, the remaining forest areas in tropical, boreal, and temperate biomes have fallen below safe levels” (Stockholm Resilience Center, 2025).
For this session, we’re bringing a natural scientist to organization scholars, to encourage interdisciplinary insights that will feed organizational research on sustainable agriculture and regenerative agriculture (which is all about soils!). We must learn about how these systems work to more effectively engage in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on these topics (Lahneman et al., 2025). So if you’re interested and/or engaging in research on sustainable &/or regenerative agriculture, this session (and the next two) are for you!
This event will be recorded and available to those who register. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Following this session, we’ll host two more talks related to the ‘land system change’ planetary boundary, this time from organization studies’ perspectives (both at 9am Mtn. time):
· --Wednesday April 1st: Dr. Rajat Panwar (Oregon State University) on forest systems and deforestation in supply chains, and Dr. Domenico Dentoni (Montpellier Business School) on systems approaches to sustainable agriculture
· --Wednesday April 29th: Dr. Rory Padfield (University of Leeds) on digital geospatial mapping tools and ‘mapwashing’
We hope you can join us for the next session on Feb. 25th!
Brooke Lahneman, MSU SEI
Sarah Church, MSU IOE
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Brooke Lahneman
Assistant Professor of Management
Director, Sustainable Enterprises Initiative
Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship
Montana State University
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