6th Liphe4 Fall School 2008
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Program here
6th
Fall School Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecological
Metabolism (MuSIASEM) for Participatory Assessment of Sustainability
Issues, October 13th- 17th,
2008, Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen Interdisciplinary Training and Research Platform,
West University from Timisoara, Romania
Purpose of the Summer School
The purpose is to provide an introduction to the theory, the
methodological approach and practical applications of MuSIASEM to young
researchers, advanced students, experienced practitioners. Several
conceptual concepts derived from complex systems thinking: “holons”,
“multipurpose grammars”, “sudoku effect”, “multi-level matrices”, “the
fund/flow model of analysis for metabolic systems” (proposed by
Georgescu-Roegen) will be presented since they are the building blocks
of the MuSIASEM approach. Then the school will discuss the possible use
of the MuSIASEM approach in the fields of:
♦ Participatory Integrated Assessment - the choice, development and use
of integrated packages of indicator across dimensions and scales of
analysis when using science for governance;
♦ Social Multicriteria Evaluation - how to handle the unavoidable
presence of uncertainty (genuine ignorance) and the existence of
legitimate but contrasting perspectives about what should be considered
as an “improvement” in a process of decision making;
♦ Spatial Analysis how to deal with the ecological dimension of
sustainability by analyzing the interference that the characteristics
of societal metabolism entail on the metabolism of natural ecosystems.
The training applies practical, problem-oriented, and policy-relevant
research approaches. Participants will be enabled to conduct and inform
on sustainability research independently and identify the relevant
national sustainability issues as well as to suggest national and
regional research strategies to tackle these issues.
Participants
Participants are expected to be able to communicate
professionally in both written and spoken English, and to have an
interest in learning about innovative approaches and ideas related to
sustainable development, integrated assessment, resource use, science
for governance. For logistic reasons (formation of working groups), the
number of participants will not exceed 40 units.
List of resource persons
♦ Prof. Mario Giampietro,
ICTA-UAB
♦ Prof. Kozo Mayumi, The University of Tokushima
♦ Dr. Jesús Ramos-Martín, ICTA-UAB
♦ Dr. Gonzalo Gamboa, ICTA-UAB
♦ Ms. Alevgul Sorman, ICTA-UAB
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Please, follow
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link to go to the
5th Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Barcelona, Spain, in
2008.
Please, follow
this
link to go to the
4th Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Khon Kaen, Thailand, in
2007.
Please, follow
this
link to go to the
3rd Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Sangonera la Verde,
Murcia, Spain, in
2006.
Please, follow
this
link to go to the
2nd Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Sangonera la Verde,
Murcia, Spain, in
2005.
Please, follow
this
link to go to the
1st Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Deutschlandsberg,
Austria, in
2004.
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