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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
In 2012 the international community will celebrate 20 years of Agenda 21, the guiding vision agreed to by 179 nations at the Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Since then the idea of sustainable development has been discussed at uncountable gatherings around the world and numerous activities – in academia, politics, civil society as well as the private sector – have been initiated to bring the idea of sustainability to life. Interconnected sustainability challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, economic and social instability are however still with us – and some of them are becoming increasingly serious. The institutionalization of sustainability as a regulative idea has only started in some spheres of activity and some areas of the world. To achieve transitions towards sustainability, continuous inquiry, learning, and adaptation is needed. And this requires science to go beyond disciplinary – and even interdisciplinary – approaches. By bringing about mutual learning, collaborative research, and problem solving among business, government and civil society, transdisciplinarity can serve as an important guiding concept for sustainability science and practice. Over the last 10 years, progress has been made to better understand and design the interface between sustainability science and transdisciplinarity. The conference focuses on three leading questions:
1. What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10 years?
2. What gaps in research still remain?
3. How can we fill these gaps?
At the conference leading researchers, particularly in sustainability, and high-level decisionmakers will meet in a transdisciplinary setting with a goal of creating new insights to help move
sustainability forward. Keynote speakers from civil society, politics, and business will be among others: Angelika Zahrnt (RNE, BUND/former chairwoman), Kersten-Karl Barth (Director Sustainability Siemens AG), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Social Democratic Party of Germany, tbc).
The conference will consist of plenary presentations followed by discussion, specialized track sessions and case-study workshops. New media technology will connect the conference discussion and results to a broader audience. With this call for papers we invite interested researchers in the field of sustainability to submit papers for presentation and discussion at the specialized track sessions. The papers may pursue (inter-)disciplinary perspectives such as management, governance, communication, ecology, environmental chemistry or sustainable infrastructures.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
02/29/2012 11:30 - 03/02/2012 12:30
Registration deadline:
12/15/2011
Event venue:
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Scharnhorststr. 1
21335 Lüneburg
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Environment / ecology, Social studies, Teaching / education, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
11/30/2011
Sender/author:
Henning Zuehlsdorff
Department:
Presse und Kommunikation
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event37808
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