Entries by Steffen Fuerst

GSDP Kick-Off Meeting

Berlin, Germany 26.-27.10.2010 This meeting is organized in order to develop the research programme for the first year of GSDP.

Bybanen Konferanse (Norway)

European Climate Forum-Transport Group June 21-22, 2010 Bergen, Norway Bergen’s Bybanen works! Bergen’s first light rail system was inaugurated on June 22nd by Queen Sonja of Norway, following a two-day conference with over 80 representatives from the private and public sector. The ECF-Transport Group, represented by the environmental researcher Aida Abdulah, talked about the challenges of sustainable mobility for […]

Making Climate Change win-win

Reactions on the ECF Annual Conference 2010 The Volterra Approach   Author: Bridget Rosewell This is the theme of the conference of the European Climate Forum www.european-climate-forum.net this year. Listening to the speeches I am struck by the parallels in analysis between thinking about the impact of climate change and that of infrastructure.

Release of Lagom generiC 2.0: an agent-based model of growing economies

Lagom generic is an agent based model for representing economic systems – the economy of Germany, the Mediterranean Region, the world – over a time horizon of one to several decades. The ECF Working Paper 1/2009 is based on the model. The improved version 2.0, can be downloaded now here.

2010 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk

August 2-13, 2010, Beijing Normal University/China Disaster, Risk, and Climate Change August 2-13, 2010, Beijing Normal University/China The 2010 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk (SI2010) at Beijing Normal University is the second of a series of three summer institutes cosponsored by the Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Foreign Experts […]

Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2009 for Klaus Hasselmann

Klaus Hasselmann, co-founder of the European Climate Forum and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2009 in the category of climate change. The recognition comprises 400.000 EUR and is based on his ground-breaking contributions to the scientific and public understanding of climate change […]