design: hilkoblok.com
COST Event Report: The role of New Approaches in Studying Sustainable governance: Experimental Research and Modeling of Governance Processes
COST Event Report: The role of New Approaches in Studying Sustainable governance: Experimental Research and Modeling of Governance Processes
Institute of Management of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, October 03-04, 2011
Workshop organizers: Veronika Chobotova and Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska
Workshop in Brief
With the support of COST Action IS0802 "The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risks and Opportunities (TGEG), the Centre for Transdisciplinary Study of Institutions, Evolutions and Policies (CETIP) at the Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IF, SAS) organized a workshop: The Role of New Approaches in Studying Sustainable Governance: Experimental Research and Modeling of Governance Processes. The main, objective of the workshop was to demonstrate if and how experimental and modeling techniques can substantially contribute to environmental governance and the design of effective management strategies under the given complexity. The workshop targeted interdisciplinary researchers in the area of environmental governance, political sciences, psychology, sociology, philosophy and environmental sciences. It took the form of keynote lectures, lab sessions and the discussions. It is a 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 was 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 Virtual Scientific Laboratories (VSL) www.virtualsciencelab.org and first action of the new Centre of Excellence for Strategic Analyses (CESTA).
The full workshop report can be downloaded here:
