YouthFuturesDZ investigates environmental challenges, youth responses and their visions of the future.
Steered by a network of youth researchers, the Youth Futures project investigates innovative ideas of young people on tackling environmental challenges. The project will capture creative energy of young people to understand how they imagine their own futures, as citizens and decision makers. What kinds of livelihoods could tackle the challenges facing towns and cities? What forms of governance are fair and sustainable? How can young people be better involved in policymaking to ensure such imagined futures and livelihoods could be possible?
Young people are at the heart of this project.
We will use creative research to understand how youth mobilisation (symbolic acts of cleaning public spaces) has affected relations to local environments.
We want to understand young people’s creative solutions: how are they already engaged in environmental activism and economies?
We aim to value and disseminate young people’s creative solutions, and to strengthen their capacity to engage, by amplifying their voices.
Jessica Northey, Principal Investigator, CTPSR
To achieve this, the project investigates the causes of environmental degradation, lack of youth livelihoods, or disengagement from public life. It then uses political ecology, humanities and social sciences, to explore interconnections of these socio-ecological challenges. It employs mixed methods across cities to investigate solutions developed by young people. Drawing on the academic literature, training in research design and methods, it aims to provide a platform to share findings and positive examples with young people, policy makers and partners.
