Call for papers: Sustainability Summit 2012
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you of the: LEUPHANA SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT 2012 - Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach 29th February – 2nd March 2012, Lüneburg, Germany.
Dear colleagues,
For distribution to your networks of sustainability professionals: Call for papers!
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you of the: LEUPHANA SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT 2012 - Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach 29th February – 2nd March 2012, Lüneburg, Germany
The institutionalization of sustainability as a regulative idea has only started in some spheres of activity and some areas of the world. To achieve transitions towards sustainability, continuous inquiry, learning, and adaptation is needed. And this requires science to go beyond disciplinary – and even interdisciplinary – approaches. By bringing about mutual learning, collaborative research, and problem solving among business, government and civil society, transdisciplinarity can serve as an important guiding concept for sustainability science and practice. Over the last 10 years, progress has been made to better understand and design the interface between sustainability science and transdisciplinarity. The conference focuses on three leading questions:
- What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for
sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10
years?
- What gaps in research still remain?
- How can we fill these gaps?
These guiding questions will focus the debates in workshops, plenary and parallel sessions in four topical areas: Biodiversity, Global Sustainability, Education, and Corporate Sustainability. For the pre-announcement of the conference please go to: http://www.leuphana.de/sustainability-summit
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and hope you will be able to join us in Lüneburg next February/March. More information about the conference, such as the provisional program, venue etc. will soon be available at the conference website.
Best, Harald Heinrichs Gesa Luedecke
Gesa Lüdecke Dipl. Umweltwissenschaftlerin / Environmental Scientist Fakultät Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften / Department Sustainability Sciences Institut für Umweltkommunikation / Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communications Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Geb. 11, Raum 131 Scharnhorststraße 1 21335 Lüneburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 4131_677-1565 Fax: +49 (0) 4131_677-2819 luedecke@uni.leuphana.de www.leuphana.de
