09:15-11:00 | Festsaal
Chair: Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Deputy Director, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria
Abstract
Systems Analysis is a powerful tool to address complex problems of our society. IIASA can proudly look back at half a century of experience in developing holistic, inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary approaches as a basis for science-based policy decisions. However, we are only in the beginning of a science-for-policy journey.
This session highlights some of the grand challenges of humanity, featured by a diverse group of globally leading scholars in their respective domains, thus providing a comprehensive perspective of IIASA’s operating space.
Speakers:
Resilience for and through Sustainable Transformation
Belinda Reyers, Professor, Future Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Innovation, Technological Change, and Society
Floor Alkemade, Chair, Technology, Innovation and Society Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Systems Approach to a Sustainable and Just Economy
Sigrid Stagl, Co-Director, Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Climate and Environmental Governance in a Multi-polar World
Arun Agrawal, Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, USA
Decision-making under Disruptive Shocks, Uncertainty and Complexity
Jim Hall, Director of Research, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, UK