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With the symposium “Already Beyond? – 40 years of ‘Limits to Growth’”, the Volkswagen Foundation provides international experts as well as junior researchers with a platform for an intense (inter-)disciplinary dialogue on new fields of research. The focus will lie on current challenges. The symposium therefore focuses on three complementary fields: society, environment and resources.
The opening and closing sessions are focusing on the crucial role that society itself has in the process of extending or reducing the “Limits to Growth”. These sessions discuss the impact the study and its observations had and should have on people, on policies, attitudes, and lifestyles around the globe.
The following sessions consider core topics of the “Limits to Growth” study and are discussing new theories and ideas in these research fields. They focus on demography, economics, climate change and global governance, food and water management and the problem of finite resources.
We are interested in unanswered questions and unresolved problems. A Winter School on „Limits to Growth Revisited“, which is addressed to 60 young researchers of all relevant fields, will take place in the week running up to the conference, which was initiated by Dennis Meadows and the Volkswagen Foundation. During this week, new questions, hypotheses and ideas will be developed to be presented and discussed at the symposium.
Information on participating / attending:
More information about the symposium, the program and the registration process can be found at: http://www.contoo.de/c/limits-to-growth.
Date:
11/28/2012 09:00 - 11/29/2012 15:15
Event venue:
Herrenhausen Palace
Herrenhäuser Straße 5
30419 Hannover
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
interdisciplinary
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
08/06/2012
Sender/author:
Jens Rehländer
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event40478
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