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 1st Edition of the Liphe4 Summer Workshop
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Summer Workshop on Participatory Integrated assessment of Sustainability
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Organizing committee
Mario Giampietro, INRAN, Rome, Italy
Clemens Grunbuhel, IFF, Vienna, Austria
Reza Nourbakhch - Sabet,IFF, Vienna, Austria
Jesus Ramos-Martin, INRAN, Rome, Italy
Heinz Schandl, IFF, Vienna, Austria
Scope of the summer workshop
The summer school was aimed at offering a reference point on the state of the art in the field of sustainable development studies to young researchers and students. In particular, the workshop presented a complete overview, theoretical and applied, of recent analytic and participatory approaches for promoting sustainable development. For this purpose, the summer workshop comprised both lectures and hands-on case-studies. The summer workshop familiarized students with cutting-edge research and analysis by inviting renowned experts. Resources draw from the fields of Integrated Assessment, Social Multicriteria Evaluation, Participatory Approaches, and Biophysical Analysis. Students experienced an intense level of interaction with peers and senior researchers during a 7-day residential course.
Participants
Students from Germany, France, the USA, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Iran attended the summer workshop. They all were either PhD or Master students, or young professionals, interested in problems related to sustainable development and natural resource management.
Organization of summer workshop
The summer school was scheduled from 20 to 27 August 2004. The program was organized along five days of morning presentations and related interactive afternoon sessions. Day one was dedicated to epistemological and conceptual issues of integrated assessment. Day two dealt with societal metabolism on multiple scales. Day three was dedicated to methods for biophysical analysis. Land time budget analysis was presented in day four, and finally day five dealt with participatory research. The second half of the program was centered on discussions on the application of integrated analysis to different research proposals by students.
The summer school will took place in the picturesque town of Deutschlandsberg.
Themes for the 2004 summer workshop on integrated and participative analyses of scenarios in relation to sustainable development.
(i) Integrated Assessment for sustainability – epistemological and
conceptual issues
(ii) Social metabolism on multiple scales
(iii) Tool and methods for organizing scientific information for decision
making
(iv) Resources, time, and land – operationalizing biophysical
constraints
(v) Assuring the quality of the decision-making process
List of resource persons
(i) Mario Giampietro (Complex Systems)
(ii) Jesus Ramos Martin (Ecological Economics)
(iii) Heinz Schandl (Social Ecology)
(iv) Clemens M. Grünbühel (Ecological Anthropology)
Endorsement
The School is endorsed by the following institutions:
European Conference for Ecological Modelling
ECEM-04, The Fourth European Conference on Ecological Modelling and EAML-04,
The Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Applications of Machine Learning
will take place in Bled, Slovenia, September 27 - October 1. The deadline for
submitting two-page abstracts is March 20. More information on the events can
be found at the website
http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ECEMEAML04/
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School 2008
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School 2007
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School 2006
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School 2005
Please, follow this link to go to the 2nd Edition of the Liphe4 Summer School held in Sangonera la Verde, Murcia, Spain, in 2005.