New Thinking about Global Challenges – GSDP Annual Conference

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October 10-11, 2011
Umweltforum Berlin, Germany

There is an urgent need for new thinking about global systems, in particular about the main driving force of globalization: the world economy.

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The 21st century will be a period of unprecedented global challenges – instability of financial markets, global environmental change, large-scale demographic shifts, and more. The famous saying of Einstein’s – that we cannot solve problems with the thinking that generated them – is particularly relevant in the face of these challenges. There is an urgent need for new thinking about global systems, in particular about the main driving force of globalization: the world economy. Read more

Integrated Risk Governance in the Mediterranean Region: Climate Change, Democracy, and Growth

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April 28-29, 2011
UAB Casa Convalescència, Barcelona, Spain

A conference organized by the European Climate Forum (ECF) on behalf of the CIRCE project and the GSDP network

ECF conferences are known for the unusual spirit of open debate and exchange between scientists and stakeholders. In this spirit, we will look at the tasks of risk governance in the Mediterranean region. We will start from climate risks and climate policies, while acknowledging that these cannot be dealt with in isolation.

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GSDP workshop as a Satellite Meeting at ECCS’11 Vienna—European Conference on Complex Systems

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Social energy: a useful notion for analysing complex socio-ecological systems?

The metaphor social energy, based on an analogy to energy in physics, is supposed to facilitate the study of complex socio-ecological systems. It has been, to some extent, discussed in the GSDP network.

A half-day workshop to further the discussion around social energy will be scheduled during the European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS’11 in Vienna between September 12 and 16, 2011.

More information can be found here!

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Funding Research for ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling

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06.12.2010, Workshop in collaboration with the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (FP7).

Within the 7th EU Framework Program, the EU has issued a call for the development of ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling. This call has an indicative budget of 25 million Euros; the deadline for handing in proposals is 18 January 2011.

In our workshop, EU officials and experienced researchers will inform about both this call and its opportunities for research funding. The target audience are representatives from research organisations, ICT business, state agencies, and civil society. Read more

GSDP Kick-Off Meeting

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Berlin, Germany
26.-27.10.2010

This meeting is organized in order to develop the research programme for the first year of GSDP. Read more

ECF-TG set up research lines on sustainable transport for Bergen at the European Mobility Week 2010

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September 16-22, 2010
Bergen, Norway

The ECF-Transport Group met with occasion of the European Mobility Week 2010 in Bergen. The goal of the meeting was to set up a work plan to go ahead with the transport strategy agreed last June at the Bybanen Conference. The ECF-TG met at the City Council representatives of the Bergen mobility sector, among other groups of interest.

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Bybanen Konferanse (Norway)

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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 Bergen and introduced the ECF-TG new project on stakeholder dialogs on transport.
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Making Climate Change win-win

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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. Read more

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

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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.

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2010 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk

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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 Affairs. Initiated in collaboration with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) – Integrated Risk Governance (IRG Project), this summer institute series is an integral part and a core capacity building activity of the Hazard and Risk Science Base at Beijing Normal University (the HRSB@BNU). The primary goal is to attract and train young scholars who have both background and strong interest in the field of hazard and risk study, and through which, to improve and strengthen education, research, as well as international communication and cooperation capacity in China in the field of disaster and risk sciences. In the long-term, the summer institutes seek contribution to laying a solid foundation of a state-of-the-art hazard and risk science base in China. Read more