The role of new approaches in studying sustainable governance: experimental research and modelling of governance processes
The main objective
of the workshop is to demonstrate if and how experimental and modelling techniques can substantially contribute to environmental governance and the design of effective management strategies under the given complexity.
Organizers: Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences (IF SAS), the Centre for Transdisciplinary Study of Institutions, Evolution and Policies (CETIP), Centre of Excellence of the Slovak Academy of Sciences CESTA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Social Strategies).
Venue: Institute of Management of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Vazovova 5, 812 43 Bratislava
The workshop targets at interdisciplinary researchers in the area of environmental governance, political sciences, psychology, sociology, philosophy and environmental sciences. It will take the form of keynote lectures, lab sessions and the discussions. The workshop is the contribution to the debate on innovative ideas and challenges of multi-method application and collaborative research in interdisciplinary environmental research as being a part of open series of Training Institutes initiated by the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE).
The workshop is an activity of the Working Group 2 of the COST Action IS0802 “The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risks and Opportunities (TGEG), http://transformation-geg.org/ organized in collaboration with the Virtual Scientific Laboratories (VSL) www.virtualsciencelab.org. It is a result of the Centre of excellence SPECTRA+ and among launching activities of the Centre of Excellence of the Slovak Academy of Sciences CESTA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Social Strategies).