Adrián Beling

Prof. Dr. Adrian Beling is the Academic Director of the Global Studies Programme (GSP) at FLACSO Argentina, and the Canada Research Chair in Transition to Sustainability at The King’s University (Edmonton, Alberta), where he is also appointed as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. His theoretical and empirical work explores both the conditions for a successful sustainability transition (“transition governance”) and how governance itself is transformed as a result of sustainability imperatives (“governance in transition”). This agenda is collaboratively streamlined with partner universities through the program SustENABLE Transformation. Prof. Beling has published extensively on the Latin-American Buen vivir experiment, while his latest work focuses on the role of religion & church as a sustainability governance agent, and on the interface of politics and culture in sustainability governance theory.

Beling holds a PhD in Sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin and from the Alberto Hurtado University, in Chile, as well as an M.A. in Global Studies from the program he currently heads. Trained in Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences in Argentina (National University of Cuyo and FLACSO), Germany (University of Freiburg), and India (Jawaharlal Nehru University), he is a lecturer and public speaker in diverse academic and non-academic contexts in different countries.

Moreover, Prof. Beling has a track record of academic entrepreneurship: In 2014 he co-founded the academic blog and journal Alternautas, hosted by the library of the University of Warwick and devoted to making Latin-American socio-environmental thinking available to a non-Spanish speaking audience. Beling is also co-founder and board member of Ecocene Foundation.

In 2020, Dr. Beling designed and started the Higher Diploma in Integral Ecology (now renamed Higher Diploma in Transition to Sustainability), which is endorsed by the 43 member-universities of the University Network for the Care of the Common Home (RUC). Having trained over 250 international students across the Americas, this Higher Diploma will be subsumed into the Global Studies Programme starting in 2024.

Research papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WSx8–8AAAAJ&hl=en

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