The Webcast Series is co-hosted by The Integrated Assessment Society and the Institute of Environmental Systems Research (USF) for the purpose of bringing both experts and practitioners interested in a theme together to review the state of the art and identify new courses for particular IA topics.
Future events are announced below together with the results and recordings of previous webcasts.
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Webcast February 2023: Use of Systems Thinking Archetypes in S-E Modeling
Webcast November 2022: Selecting a Modeling Approach for Socio-Environmental Systems
Webcast September 2022: Participatory Modeling to Address Socio-Environmental Problems
Webcast June 2022: Modeling Behaviour Change in Socio-Environmental Systems
Webcast October 2021: Creating Socio-Environmental Scenarios
Webcast June 2021: Confronting Issues of Scale in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Part1: Understanding the Grand Challenges in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Part 2: Uncertainty, Transparency and Robustness in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling and Assessments
Webcast June 2019: Global Environmental Outlook – Findings and Options for Future Assessments
Webcast June 2018: The principles and practice of applying integrated assessment to the SDGs
Webcast June 2018: Education for Sustainable Development: Debating principles, promise and practice
Webcast June 2017: Principles and Standards for Integrated Assessment
Webcast Nov 2016: Conceptualization and measurement of learning
Webcast June 2016: Dialogue on Knowledge Co-production
Webinar Nov 2014: Advancing the Water-Food Nexus: Approaches and Methods
Webinar May 2014: Enhancing Social Impact Assessment
Webinar July 2012: Moving towards a global change science – From discourse to action
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February 2023
Webcast on Use of Systems Thinking Archetypes in S-E Modeling
Co-sponsored by: SESYNC, iEMSs, SESMO and TIAS
Solving problems of sustainability requires understanding social and environmental systems as being tightly coupled. Each system’s individual components or parts interact in complex ways, and feedbacks—or how change in one part of the system affects other system parts—determine the dynamics of socio-environmental systems (SESs). Archetypes are a useful tool that can provide insights into a system’s dynamics and facilitate development of formal system models. Archetype analysis can reveal patterns that commonly plague SES, as well as strategies for achieving sustainability across heterogeneous contexts. With its particular focus on using feedback loops as the leverage point for solving sustainability problems, the use of archetypes is growing in research and management.
This recorded webcast introduces the concept of archetypes, explores some of the most common archetypes including their application in research, and describes how the use of archetypes can facilitate the socio-environmental modeling process.
Presenters:
Sondoss Elsawah, University of New South Wales
Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Michigan State University
Renee Obringer, SESYNC
Juan Rocha, Stockholm Resilience Centre
A link to the recording of the webcast is available on this page| SESYNC
The prerecorded video of the keynote presentation is available here.
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November 2022
Webcast on Selecting a Modeling Approach for Socio-Environmental Systems
Hosted by: The Integrated Assessment Society, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center,
the journal: Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, and the International Environmental Modelling
& Software Society
Selecting the best modeling approach can be daunting, especially when considering the many options available—including system dynamics, agent-based, Bayesian network, and coupled component models. Therefore, this event focused on how to select a modeling approach that best suits the unique socio-environmental issue or system that a researcher is exploring.
Presenter: Serena Hamilton, Research Fellow, Australian National University, Australia
Contributor: Tony Jakeman, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, Australia & Sondoss Elsawah, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
Panelists:
Kirsten Oleson, Professor, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, USA
David Wrathall, Associate Professor, Oregon State University, USA
Hedwig van Delden, Director of the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS), Netherlands & Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
Recording of the webcast will be available soon on this website. A tutorial of the presenter can already be accessed here.
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September 2022
The SESYNC, TIAS and SEMSO webcast about Participatory Modeling to Address Socio-Environmental Problems took place on 26 September 2022.
The event focused on the critical challenge of working with diverse stakeholders and scholars to co-develop models to address socio-environmental problems and presented the state of the art in participatory modeling, focusing on the fundamental challenges and promising research directions for meeting those obstacles.
Presenter: Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science, Northeastern University.
Panelists:
Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Professor, Michigan State University, USA
Juan Castilla-Rho, Senior Lecturer, Canberra University, Australia
Nagesh Kolagani, Professor, Centurion University of Technology and Management, India
Please find more information and recording of the webcast here…
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June 2022
The webcast, Modeling Behaviour Change in Socio-Environmental Systems, took place on 20 June 2022. The event focused on the critical challenge of incorporating the human dimension in SES modeling including the state of the art in modeling behavioral change, fundamental scientific challenges, and promising research directions.
More information and recording here
Presentation: Jonathan Gilligan, Associate Professor and Associate Director for Research, Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network, Vanderbilt University, USA
Panelists
Marco Janssen, Professor, Arizona State University, USA
Firouzeh Taghikhah, Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Australia
Gilberto Montibeller, Professor and Director of Professional and Executive Education at the Loughborough University, UK and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, USA
Katherine Lacasse, Associate Professor, Rhode Island College, USA
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October 2021
The webcast, Creating Socio-Environmental Scenarios. took place on 20 October 2021
View Prerecorded Presentations: Vanessa Schweizer, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo and Director, Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Canada and Hannah Kosow, Research Associate, Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Panelists
Sondoss El Sawah, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Martin Cenek, Associate Professor, University of Portland, USA
Rebecca Kariuki, Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany and African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Fellow in Climate Change Science, Rwanda.
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June 2021
The webcast, Confronting Issues of Scale in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling took place on 28 June 2021. Go to recording of this event.
Host: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center with The Integrated Assessment Society and the journal, Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Presenter: Hsiao-Hsuan ‘Rose’ Wang, Senior Research Scientist, Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, USA
Panelists:
Val Snow, Agroecosystem Modeler and Senior Scientist, AgResearch Ltd., New Zealand
Derek T. Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada
Volker Grimm, Researcher, Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig and Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany
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April 2021
Uncertainty, Transparency and Robustness in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling and Assessments took place on April 28.
Presenter: Jan Bakkes, Vice President of The Integrated Assessment Society and past senior project leader for PBL, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Hosts: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, The Integrated Assessment Society and the journal, Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Panelists:
Andrea Saltelli, Open Evidence Research, Open University of Catalonia
Veronica Gaffey, Chair of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board, European Commission
Arthur Petersen, Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London
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Understanding the Grand Challenges in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling took place on April 14/15, 2021. The recording can be viewed here.
Presenter: Sondoss El Sawah, Associate Professor, Engineering Management, University of New South Wales, Canberra
Hosts: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, The Integrated Assessment Society and the journal, Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Panelists:
Jill Jäger, Independent scholar, Vienna, Austria
John B. Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
Detlef van Vuuren, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; Professor of Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change, Utrecht University
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October 2020
Narratives for engagement, learning and action-taking in support of environmental management
On the 26th of October, 15.00-16.30 CET (GMT +1) the Learning Community of TIAS organized a webcast on narratives. The aim of this webcast was to explore ways for integrating narrative and learning theories and approaches in environmental management. This webcast was organized in collaboration between TIAS (Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf) and two other members of the Learning Community (Larissa Koch and Juliette Cortes). The recording of this webcast is due to its large file size only available upon request (send an e-mail to learningcommunity[at]tias-web.info).
- Dr Brandi Morris (Aarhus University): How do stories influence climate change communication and how do we measure that influence?
- Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Shanahan (Montana State University): Narrative Mechanisms: Conditions of Narrative Influence
- Prof. Dr. Ilan Chabay (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies; Arizona State University): Narratives and Learning Toward Sustainable Futures
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July 2019
From games to action: When and how can serious games stimulate learning and support decision making for natural resource management?
On the 4th of July 2019, 15.00 – 16.30 CEST (GMT +2), the Learning Community of TIAS organized a webcast on serious games. The aim was to have closer look at what serious games are, what their potential is and how can be these used to support natural resource use and its up-take across different context. This interactive webcast featured presentations by early career and senior researchers as well as a practitioner who have been using serious games to contribute to the solving of diverse challenges in different parts of the world.
- Robert-Jan den Haan (University of Twente): Serious gaming, natural resources management and learning
- Sharlene Gomes (TU Delft): Games for strategy exploration in peri-urban drinking water problems
- Bettina Koelle (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre): Serious Games
- Ilan Chabay (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies): Playful Games for serious purposes: Inspiring curiosity, Collaboration, and Creativity
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June 2019
On March 13, 2019 during the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 4), the sixth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6) was launched. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of the environment. In addition to the analysis of the state of and trends associated with environmental change, GEO-6 is solution oriented evaluating current environmental policies and, using scenarios, exploring policy options for transformative change which is deemed to be necessary in order to achieve the SDGs.
Although the report was welcomed by the UNEA, the member states ask for options to improve the science-policy interface and to develop options to this end. A working group will be established to prepare an option document for consideration at UNEA 5.
In the webcast speakers and panellists discussed the findings of GEO 6 and provided initial recommendations for the set-up of future global environmental assessments.
Presenters and panelists
Paul Ekins – University College London and Co-Chair of GEO-6 , Findings of the GEO-6
Jan Bakkes – Vice president of TIAS and co-author of an upcoming book on the 25 year history of GEO, Lessons from past GEOS
Pierre Boileau – Head, Global Environmental Outlook of UN Environment, Setting the scene for Future GEOs
Martin Kowarsch – Head of the “Scientific Assessments, Ethics, and Public Policy” working group at Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) ) (Panelist)
Paul Lucas – Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) (Panelist)
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June 2018
I. The principles and practice of applying integrated assessment to the SDGs
(a follow-up to the 2016 webcast series)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marks a shift in the development paradigm of the past sixty years. At lasts, it recognises that a sustainable model of prosperity can only result from a universal initiative, wide public engagement, and systemic changes in economic, social and environmental dimensions. For all countries, this implies an economy that actually responds to explicit social objectives while remaining within ecological limits. This approach demands more than technical fixes, but also politically lucid strategies that cut across sectoral and institutional boundaries, with whole-of-government and whole-of-society holistic planning and interventions. It needs to learn from different viewpoints and use integrated analysis to thread coherent policies that manage conflicts, trade-offs and collaborations between sectors, institutions, regions, scales and time. The webinar presentations provide a context for integrated analysis for the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs and an overview of related methodologies and tools, and discuss a UN-DESA ongoing programme that uses an IA approach to support national SDG strategies in several countries.
- Further details and the agenda
- Presentation: Introduction to IA in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs by Laszlo Pinter (Central European University and International Institute for Sustainable Development)
- Presentation: Overview of methodologies and tools for SDG integration, David Tremblay (Dept. of Sciences, Univ. Québec in Chicoutimi)
- Presentation: A case of policy support: the UNDESA’s SDG Integrator Platform, François Fortier, (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UN-DESA)
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June 2018
Education for Sustainable Development: Debating principles, promise and practice (a webinar of the TIAS Learning Community)
Education is widely seen as having a fundamental role in generating lasting solutions to global sustainability challenges. This role is most widely conveyed at the global level through the Agenda 2030 (and its Sustainable Development Goals), which explicitly refers to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a key target. However, some have challenged that its universalist prescriptions fail to account for local context (particularly in the Global South), and that they do not go far enough in promoting deep transformation in dysfunctional global systems (Bengtsson 2016; Lotz-Sisitka et al 2015). This webcast will take a closer look at the promises and critiques of Education for Sustainable Development, as well as alternative framings that might offer new ways forward. To do so it will consider the following questions from the perspectives of different stakeholders and contexts:
- Does ESD provide us with the vision needed to meet today’s sustainability challenges? If not, what alternative ways forward should we pursue?
- What tools and approaches can teachers, educators and other facilitators of learning use to support learners in developing the skills, capacity and awareness needed to foster social transformation in the face of global environmental challenges like climate change?
- What role(s) must ESD or its alternatives play beyond the school if we are to meet today’s sustainability challenges? Do we have compelling examples of where this is already happening?
Webcast announcement and agenda by Blane Harvey (McGill University), Romina Rodela (Södertörn University) and Daniel Schweigatz (Osnabrück University)
- Presentation: Leaving the Titanic: Learning our way out of global system dysfunction by Arjen Wals (Wageningen University & Gothenburg University)
- Presentation: Education for Sustainable Development: Debating principles, promise and practice by Bob Jickling (Lakehead University)
- Presentation: Translocal learning: connecting movements already taking on the crisis of our collective future by Jonathan Langdon ( Francis Xavier University)
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July 2017
How a Social Learning Approach can Support the Design and Implementation of Interventions
The literature on social learning and natural resource management has been reporting on case studies where interventions were understood to function as a trigger for social learning. Yet, since this literature mostly focuses on reporting on the positive cases, issues with the design and implementation of interventions are largely unacknowledged and under-discussed. This webinar aims to present and explore:
- How social learning concepts and theories can inform the design and implementation of interventions;
- The influence given choices of intervention design, coupled with contextual factors, have on social learning processes.
Concrete examples of selected interventions will be presented and discussed. In doing so, the purpose of this Webinar is to kick-off a discussion and offer a platform for an exchange among those interested in the design and implementation of learning-based interventions. This webinar is the second in a series of webinars of the Learning Community and was chaired by Romina Rodela (Södertörn University and Wageningen University) and Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf (University of Twente).
- Webinar announcement and agenda: “How a Social Learning Approach can Support the Design and Implementation of Interventions will take place”
- Presentation: Expansive social learning: the work and role of the formative interventionist researcher By:Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa
- Presentation: Social learning in development interventions: A reflection on the limits and opportunities By: Blane Harvey, Risk and Resilience Programme, Overseas Development Institute, UK; Faculty of Education, McGill University, Canada
- Synthesis report of the 2nd webinar of the Learning Community
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June 2017
Principles and Standards for Integrated Assessment
Taking advantage of the growing wealth of experiences that exists among TIAS members, TIAS proposes to review and sharpen our understanding of Integrated Assessment. What is it? What can we expect from it? In what terms can an IA study be proposed or commissioned nowadays? How can we advance our quest to make Integrated Assessments even more effective?
This webinar intends to kick off activities of a working group and future webinars. Our proposal is to develop a set of standards or principles for IA. With this in mind, this initial webinar will review key material, such as Bellagio STAMP and UNEP’s recently renewed guidelines for Integrated Environment Assessment. Follow up activities will build upon this and will offer a forum to discuss possible standards for IA.
- Webinar announcement and agenda
- Presentation UN Environment’s Integrated Environmental Assessment Guidelines by Pierre Boileau
- Presentation BellagioSTAMP: Sustainability Assessment and Measurement Principles by Laszlo Pinter
- Presentation Designing effective Global Environmental Assessments? The FOGEAM project by Martin Kowarsch & Pauline Riousset
- Synthesis Report of Principles and Standards for Integrated Assessment webcast
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November 2016
Conceptualization and measurement of learning
Learning is of crucial importance for transitions towards sustainability in general and natural resources management in particular. In both fields, different learning concepts have become popular, including social learning, transformative learning, or experimental learning. How learning is being conceptualized and measured by different people in different contexts is the focus of this webinar. In doing so, we discuss recent developments and challenges thereby contributing to ongoing discussions on the conceptualization and measurement of learning and bringing together those who are interested in learning in transitions as well as (social) learning in natural resources management.
The presentations in this webinar include:
- Introduction and closure, by Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University
- Community-based social learning interventions, by Romina Rodela, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden
- Matching the potential of learning to transitions, by PJ Beers, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Advances in conceptualizing social learning, by Geeske Scholz, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University
- Learning in the governance of sustainability transitions, by Johannes Halbe, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University
View the full agenda and programme and synthesis report.
For more information contact us: learningcommunity[at]tias-web.info
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June 2016
Dialogue on Knowledge Co-production
The co-production of knowledge has received a lot of attention lately in various policy and scientific arenas. Defined by Armitage et al. 2011 as the
process of bringing a plurality of knowledge sources and types together, the co-production of knowledge is promoted as a more inclusive way of generating relevant, robust and actionable knowledge. As such, knowledge co-production is becoming pivotal to research initiatives like Future Earth and the European Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) for Climate, among others, whose focus of attention is policy-science interactions.
In this dialogue, several experts discuss knowledge co-production from both a conceptual and a practical perspective. This includes the identbification of barriers, bridges and ways to improve co-production processes. The session was led by Marcela Brugnach, Associate Professor in the Water Management Department at the University of Twente (Netherlands) in discussion with Silke Beck, a senior researcher in the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, and Susi Moser, Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, an independent research firm in Santa Cruz, California, and a Social Science Research Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.
The webinar was held in collaboration with the University of Twente, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, and Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.
View the full webinar announcement (pdf)
Audio-visual recording of the Knowledge Co-production webinar.
Presentations:
Definitions and questions addressed (by Marcela Brugnach)
Knowledge Co-Production: Lures and Pitfalls (pdf) by Silke Beck
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April 2016
Beyond SDG indicators – Part 2: Integrated models supporting implementation, strategy development and transition planning
TIAS and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) held the second of two webinars on the UN Sustainable Development Goals led by László Pintér of Central European University and International Institute for Sustainable Development. The presenters were: Paul Lucas of PBL the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; Marco Sanchez-Cantillo of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and, Matteo Pedericini of the Millennium Institute. They addressed where the need for assessment in the different stages of SDG implementation may arise, how it can build on the work on indicators, and the related institutional and capacity issues. To illustrate these general issues, they discussed ongoing work on integrated modeling and key conceptual, technical and institutional capacity challenges that will need to be considered for making use of these IA tools and methods in practice.
View the full programme (pdf)
The presentations can be downloaded here:
Applying integrated assessment models to SDG planning (pdf), presented by Paul Lucas of PBL the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Strengthening national capacities to use modelling tools for sustainable development policies (pdf), presented by Marco V. Sanchez-Cantillo of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The Integrated Sustainable Development Goals Planning Model (iSDG) (Link to iSDG demo), presented by Matteo Pedericini, Director of Planning, Millennium Institute
Available: Audio-visual recording of the webinar.
Summary report of the SDG2 webinar.
Further reading:
Roads from Rio+20. Pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050, and Sustainable Development Goals in the Netherlands, both by PBL the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
(See below for the presentations and a recording of part 1 on the role of integrated assessment in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals)
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February 2016
Beyond SDG Indicators – Part 1: Exploring the role of integrated assessment in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
As a crucial element of the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is significant interest in defining SDG indicators, given their potential role in monitoring and progress review. However, beyond having suitable statistical instruments for measuring progress, moving SDGs into the mainstream will also require analytic tools and methods that can address SDGs as a system, analyze their relationships, and allow policymakers, experts and the public to identify and test hypotheses about implementation options in the context of scenarios. The hypothesis underlying this webinar is that the conceptual approach, tools and methods of Integrated Assessment make it an interesting candidate to play a role. The three presenters bring both an inside perspective of the SDG process and decades of experience in navigating the science – policy interface related to the imperatives of human well-being and sustainable development. They will address where the need for assessment and strategic analysis in the different stages of SDG implementation may arise, how it can build on the work on indicators and statistics, and the related institutional and capacity issues.
View the Programme.
Available: Audio-visual recording with slides (approx. 2 hours) (The platform used is Adobe Connect. Connectivity can be tested here; Flash Player needed)
Summary report of the SDGs 1 webinar available (PDF 175 kb)
Presentations can be downloaded.:
“From planning to monitoring and review: An institutional perspective” (pdf) by Marc Levy, Deputy Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
“SDGs as a network of targets” (pdf) by David O’Connor”, IUCN, World Resources Institute. Former Chief, Policy Analysis and Networks Branch, UN DESA
“From SDG statistics to addressing the decision support needs of governments” (pdf) by Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
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November 2014
Advancing the Water-Food Nexus: Approaches and Methods
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus is a relatively new approach for promoting security in all three sectors by reducing trade-offs, building synergies and improving governance across these sectors, and thus stimulating the transition to a green economy. The “nexus” is therefore an important theme for The Integrated Assessment Society and the Institute of Environmental Systems Research since sectoral and disciplinary integration lie at the core of their missions. In order to launch the Nexus as a theme for TIAS, this webinar narrowed the focus to water and food security, since the intersection of these two sectors alone is sufficiently broad and complex.
The webinar addressed the following questions:
– Where are we at with the Nexus approach and what are some of the key challenges we face? What areas require strengthening and improved guidance?
– What are some of the more promising Nexus assessment methods and tools used?
– What kind of networking and research opportunities can we identify that will help knowledge exchange and development?
W-F Nexus Programme, Presentations and Results
The Value of the Nexus Approach
Henk Westhoek, Progamme Manager, Water, Food and Agriculture, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Improving food and water security through Water Footprint Assessment
Ruth Mathews, Executive Director, and Ashok Chapagain, Science Director, Water Footprint Network
Assessing prospects for food and water security using scenario analysis
Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussion chaired by Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, USF and TIAS
– WF Nexus challenges to be addressed
– Promising methods and tools for nexus analysis
– Networking and research opportunities
Available: Audio-visual Webinar Recording with slides (1 hr 29 mins)
Available: Webinar Summary pdf (567kb)
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May 2014
Enhancing Social Impact Assessment
The TIAS webinar, Enhancing Social Impact Assessment, has examined the state of the art in SIA, those areas requiring strengthening and improved guidance, experiences in the application of SIA to the assessment of distributional impacts, and the establishment of a TIAS working group on the subject.
For details, see full announcement.
Chaired by Jan Bakkes, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and TIAS VP.
SIA Programme, Presentations and Results
“Distributional impacts of environmental policies in Germany”
Dr. Klaus Jacob, Research Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin
“Measuring the social impact of business: Current practices and challenges”
Kitrhona Cerri, Manager, Redefining Value, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
“Challenges and developments in SIA at the project level”
Prof. Frank Vanclay,Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Groningen
Available: SIA Webinar MInutes pdf (334kb)
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July 2012
TIAS Webinar: Moving towards a global change science – From discourse to action
Focus: Designing demonstration projects.
The event took place July 9th 2012.
Organized by TIAS and RESCUE (Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth – ESF Forward Look).
Download Summary: Global Change Science Webinar Summary
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February 2010
TIAS Webinar: Getting into the Right Lane for 2050: From Vision to Strategy for a Sustainable Europe
The event took place February 15, 2010
Presenters:
Jan Bakkes, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Per Sandberg, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Overview of the session
TIAS first online webinar was led by Jan Bakkes of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) on the recently released study, “Getting into the Right Lane for 2050”, jointly published by PBL and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. The study examines the long-term challenges facing the EU in a vision of Europe for 2050, focusing on the key areas of climate change and energy security; land resources, food and biodiversity; and transport and mobility. The core question is: If we want to achieve this vision, what strategic decisions need to be taken in the next few years?
This presentation was followed by an overview of the WBSCD Vision 2050 Study presented by its director, Per Sandberg. The study lays out the challenges, pathway and options that business can use to create an opportunity-rich strategy, both regionally and globally, that will lead to a sustainable world.
Download summary: Right Lane webinar summary [0.42 MB]
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