When the Pacific flows to the Nordics: Co-creating sustainable futures
Join us for the first EHL seminar of the year, where we welcome Gauri Salunkhe, where she will share her experiences and field work from community-led marine conservation, ocean literacy programmes, and bamboo nature-based solutions in Fiji.
“As I gazed out the plane window, soft white clouds stretched endlessly around us, hiding the tropical paradise I had only imagined. Then, suddenly, the clouds parted, revealing lush green hills tumbling towards golden shores, where they met the shimmering blue of the vast Pacific Ocean. We descended towards Nadi International Airport in Fiji, my first glimpse of the island that would become home for the next six months, a place where I explored how Indigenous knowledge shapes sustainable futures for marine and coastal ecosystems…”
If you would like to hear how this story unfolded, join us for a EHL seminar with Gauri Salunkhe, where she will take us on a journey to the Pacific, sharing experiences from community-led marine conservation, ocean literacy programmes, and bamboo nature-based solutions in Fiji, reflecting on what these lessons might offer researchers and practitioners in other parts of the world.
Gauri Salunkhe is a budding sustainability researcher with a Master’s in Sustainable Technology from KTH, and will be pursuing a PhD at the University of Sydney (School of Geosciences) in 2026. She has extensive experience in participatory research and community-based projects in Fiji and Colombia, working on climate adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable livelihoods. Her work focuses on bridging academic, local, and Indigenous knowledge systems to advance transdisciplinary approaches in research and governance. Gauri is particularly interested in translating on-the-ground insights into policies and practices that support just and sustainable transitions across different regions. Gauri also has experience from co-creation methods in coastal fishing communities during fieldwork in the project Econavipesca in Colombia, a project based at KTH, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment.
