10 November 2014
This lecture is the fifth in a series on scientific topics of mutual interest, aimed at a broad academic audience, decision makers and the public, organized in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The lecture will take place on Monday, 10 November 2014, at the Conference Center Laxenburg.
"Obstacles and Opportunities in Environmental Management"
- Professor Simon Levin,
Princeton University
Program:
Opening remarks by Professor Dr Pavel Kabat (Director General, IIASA) and Professor Dr. Gerhard Glatzel (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
17:45-18:30 Drinks reception
18:30-19:30 Lecture by Professor Simon Levin
19:30-19:40 Awarding the IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellowship to Professor Simon Levin
Venue:
Conference Center Laxenburg, Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg
There will be a bus leaving at 17:00 from Museum für angewandte Kunst (Stadtpark entrance), Weiskirchnerstrasse 3, 1010 Vienna, and returning to Vienna at 19:45.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Ms. Claudia Heilig-Staindl ( or 02236-807-266) or Mag. Marie-Therese Pitner ( or 01-51581-3452), indicating also whether you need a bus transfer from Vienna to Laxenburg.
Abstract:
Environmental management presents major challenges, and a variety of obstacles stand in the pathways to solutions. These obstacles, however, also present opportunities, and this lecture will explore some of these. Key among them are the development of truly multidisciplinary approaches, exemplified by the Beijer Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, to the development of general conceptual and theoretical frameworks that lead to practical solution to specific problems. Ecosystems and the biosphere are complex adaptive systems, and are parts of a larger coupled social-environmental complex adaptive system that presents unique challenges for management.
Levin S (2010) Crossing Scales, Crossing Disciplines: Collective Motion and Collective Action in the Global Commons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 365(1537):13-18.
Arrow KJ, P.R.Ehrlich, S.A.Levin (2014) Some Perspectives on Linked Ecosystems and Socioeconomic Systems. Barrett, S., K.-G.Maler, E.S.Maskin: Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta:95-116.
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