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7th ECPR General Conference 2013 - Panel "The Governance of Unsustainability"

Date: 
04/09/2013
Excerpt: 
The organisers of the panel "The Governance of Unsustainability" to be held at the 7th ECPR General Conference 2013 from 4-7 September, 2013 are calling for papers. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 February, 2013.

10th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics on "Ecological Economics and Institutional Dynamics"

Date: 
18/06/2013
Excerpt: 
The 10th conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) on "Ecologcial Economics and Instiutional Dynamics" will be held from 18-21 June, 2013 in Lille, France. A pre-conference workshop for Master and PhD students will be organized in Reims, France. In addition, a related policy event will be held in Brussels on 18 June.

The Policy-Relevancy of Impact Assessment Tools: Evaluating Nine Years of European Research Funding

Date: 
13/06/2013
Excerpt: 
Scientific tools should play an essential role of providing the evidence base to assess the impacts of alternative policy options. To identify the contribution of research funding for impact assessment tool development, this paper analysed the variety of IA tools designed in projects funded by European Framework Programmes 6 and 7. ...
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International Conference "Water in the Anthropocene - Challenges for Science and Governance"

Date: 
21/05/2013
Excerpt: 
The Global Water System Project and its International Project Office based in Bonn, Germany, is organizing an international conference on "Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance. Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System", to be held from 21-24 May, 2013 in Bonn, Germany.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Governance

Date: 
24/02/2013
Excerpt: 
The Hertie School of Governance, located in Berlin, Germany is inviting applications to fill a position as postdoctoral research fellow in its research cluster "European and Global Governance" to start as of 1 September, 2013.
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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on "Sustainable Development: Which Transition for Our Societies?"

Date: 
31/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The overarching theme of the symposium is to analyze how the concept of transition ties in with the notion of sustainable development.
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Policy Relevant Sustainability Research

Date: 
10/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The publication "Policy Relevant Sustainability Research" guides various kinds of interested parties by providing detailed actor-specific requirement profiles for policy relevant sustainability research that aims to bridge specific knowledge to bear on policy issues relating to sustainable development.
publications

2013 CCES Winter School on "Science Meets Practice"

Date: 
07/01/2013
Excerpt: 
How can scientists lead a true dialogue with people and institutions outside the scientific community? This is the topic of the CCES Winter School "Science Meets Practice", which will be held on 7-10 January and 4-7 February, 2013. The School supports exchange efforts and enhances capability to create interactions beyond scientific boundaries.

Call for Sessions: 2nd Global Land Project - Open Science Meeting 2014

Date: 
05/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The 2nd Open Science Meeting of 2014 "Land Transformation: between global challenges and local realities", will take place from 19-21 March, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The call for session proposals is open until 5 January, 2013.