FW: CSE seminar next week - Fri 30/6 - Collectively seeing complex systems - Prof Richard Norgaard

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CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems seminar next week.....

Friday 30 June

 

Collectively seeing complex systems

Prof Richard Norgaard
UC Berkeley, USA

 

3.30 pm, Caughley Seminar Room

 

Venue: Caughley Seminar Room, Gungahlin Homestead, Crace (directions below)

Abstract below, flyer attached

Abstract: The modern world is characterized by an unprecedented fragmentation and specialization of knowledge. Yet to solve the problems – especially environmental problems – created in part by the successful application of fragmented knowledge to expanded agricultural and industrial production, scientists must bring together their dispersed knowledge to inform collective deliberation and new policies.

This session draws on how the community of climate scientists, organized around the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, and ecologists and economists working together in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment bring their knowledge together through collective learning processes.  We will also explore how shared understanding challenges environmental policy and management but provides a very interesting example of deliberative democracy.

 

About the speaker: Richard B Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources Group and of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Among the founders of the field of ecological economics his recent research addresses how environmental problems challenge scientific understanding and the policy process, how ecologists and  economists understand systems differently and how globalization affects environmental governance.

 

Location details: The entrance to Gungahlin Homestead is from Bellenden Street (off Barton Highway, approx 500m north of Gungahlin Drive overpass). The visitor car park is to the right of entrance near front of Homestead (Reception). Please report to reception for a visitors pass.

Enquiries: m("csiro.au","anne.towill");">, ph 6242 1608 (Mon pm, Tues-Thurs) or phone Gungahlin reception - ph 6242 1600

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Anne Towill
Marketing and Communication Group
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
'Gungahlin Homestead'
GPO Box 284
Canberra ACT 2601

 

ph: 02 6242 1608  (Mon PM, Wed, Thu)
fax: 02 6242 1555
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CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems website: www.cse.csiro.au

 

 

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