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Plenary Presentations

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Frank Biermann Global Governance Project, PIK and FU Berlin

Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition and the Challenge for Social Science -- An Introduction

Christian Patermann Director, European Commission, Research, Environment Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: The European Perspective

 

Panel Presentations

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Bäckstrand, Karin Wallenberg Research Fellow on Environment and Sustainability, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Civic Science for Sustainability -- Reframing the Role of Scientific Experts, Policy-makers and Citizens in Environmental Governance
Bleischwitz, Raimund / Schepelmann, Philipp / Schäfer, Jürgen Wuppertal Institute, Germany EU-STRATA project Adaptive Integration of Research and Policy for
Sustainable Development (AIRP-SD)
Boykoff,  Maxwell T. /Boykoff, Jules M. Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA/ Department of Government, American University, Washington DC; both USA Bias As Balance: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press
Brueckner, Martin Centre for Ecosystem Management, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia Trees, Science, and Public Processes: A Western Australian Experience
Edelenbos, Jurian / van Buuren, M.W. / Teismann, Geert R. Centre of Public Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands By-passing Barriers in Sustainable Knowledge Production
Füssel, Hans-Martin Department of Integrated System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Coevolution of Conceptual and Political Frameworks for Climate Change Assessments
Giorgi, Liana / Schroeder-Wildberg, Esther / Carius, Alexander Director/Research Fellow, Adelphi Research, Berlin, Germany Foresight for Sustainable Transport and Mobility
Goucher, Nancy P. / Michaels, Sarah Ph.D.
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
Applying knowledge management to sustainability science: Watershed lessons
Grosskurth, Jasper /Romanns, Jan International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht, The Netherlands New Knowledge for Sustainable Governance: the SCENE approach
Gupta, Joyeeta Programme Manager, International Environmental Governance, and Interim Head, Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Am-sterdam, The Netherlands The Structural Imbalance in Sustainability Knowledge in North-South Relations: Capacity Building Under the Climate Change Convention
Healy, Stephen School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Power, Knowledge and Sustainability
Heinrichs, Harald Programme Group Humans, Environment, Technology (MUT) of the German Research Centre Jülich, Germany Knowledge for sustainability-governance: From policy advice to policy-oriented knowledge communication
Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude/Kissling-Näf, Ingrid/Pohl, Christan Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich/Swiss Academy of Sciences, Bern/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, all Switzerland How to design an interface between science and society? Lessons from theme related platforms for the knowledge communication in Switzerland
Ignatow, Gabriel Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Ca, USA Education, Science, and Environmental Organizations
Ishii, Atsushi Diplomatory science: Modeling the hybrid character of policy-advisory science for diplomacy
Jacob, Klaus/Volkery, Axel Environmental Policy Research Unit, Free University of Berlin, Germany Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) – Potentials and Limits for Policy Change Through Learning
Jürgens, Ingmar Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Policies and Environment Division, Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Paris, France Science-Stakeholder Dialogue and Climate Change Towards a Participatory Notion of Communication
Kirton, John Professor, University of Toronto, Canada International Institutions, Sustainability Knowledge and Policy Change: The North American Experience
Laes, Erik /
Mesken, Gaston / D’Haeseleer, William / Weiler, Raoul
University of Louvain/Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, all Belgium The Belgian Nuclear Phase-Out as a Strategy for Sustainable Development: Unstructured Problems, unstructured Answers?
Lotze-Campen, Hermann/Lucht, Wolfgang Department of Global Change and Social Systems/Department of Global Change and Natural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany How to observe and model transitions towards sustainability: the Geoscope initiative
Maier, Simone Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude/ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland/Schweizer Verband der Raiffeisenbanken, Switzerland Options & Restrictions: A Heuristic Tool in Transdisciplinary Research for an Effective Implementation of Sustainable Practices
Matsumoto, Yasuko NIES Fellow, Climate Change Project, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Can knowledge be a major influence on political decision-making without non-state actors playing a role?
Mieg, Harald Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland The Precarious Role of Scenarios in Global Environmental Politics
Ohndorf, Markus/ Schmitz, Simon Centre for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland/ World Business Council for Sustainable Development; Geneva, Switzerland When Accountants Create Knowledge: Learning from the International Standardization of Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Paavola, Jouni Senior Research Associate; Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE); University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Knowledge and Participation for Sustainability? Science, Pluralism and Envrionmental Governance for Adaptation to Climate Change
Rakin, Paul/Swart, Rob/Robinson, John Stockholm Environment Institute Boston Centre, MA, USA/National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands/Sustainable Research Institute (SDRI), Canada Navigating the Sustainability Transition: The Future of Scenarios
Robinson, John/Shaw, Alison Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Imbued Meaning: Science-Policy Interaction in the IPCC
Sand, Peter H. Institute of International Law, University of Munich, Germany The Right to Know:Environmental Information Disclosure by Government and Industry
Schiller, Frank / Tänzler, Dennis PhD Candidate, University of Göttingen/Research Fellow, Adelphi Research, Berlin, both Germany Dissent about Scientific Uncertainties: Implications in Policy Arenas.
Siebenhüner, Bernd  Global Governance Project, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Oldenburg University, Germany Social Learning and Sustainability Science: Which role can stakeholder participation
play?
Whitelegg, Katy Department of Technology Policy, ARC Seibersdorf Research, Austria Organising Research for Sustainable Development: An assessment of National Research Programmes

 

 
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