Human/Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene:

Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis

 
 
 
 

 
 
Conference Programme

Thursday, 29 May, 2008 - Day 1    

   

Session 1

16:00 19:00

Social-ecological systems (SES) and complexity

Chair: Gesche Krause; Co-Chair: Martin Welp

   

16:00 – 16:20

Welcome and Introduction
Bernhard Glaeser and Marion Glaser

   

16:20 – 16:50

Keynote 1: System thinking in Human/Social Ecology
Felix Tretter

16:50– 17:20

Keynote 2: Social-ecological systems: a view from the critical theory of societal relations to nature
Egon Becker

17:20 – 17:40

Discussion of both keynotes

17:40 – 18:00

Health and Communication Break

18:00 – 19:00

Short Papers
Complexity and emergence - Beate Ratter
On regulation in complex and autopoietic systems - Heike Egner

19:15 – 20:00

DGH members’ assembly (in German)

Friday, 30 May, 2008 - Day 2

Session 2

9:00 12:00

Resilience, adaptability and transformability

Chair: Susanne Stoll-Kleemann; Co-Chair: Karl-Heinz Simon

   

9:00 – 10:00

Keynote 3:   Social-ecological systems dynamics and change: Key concepts and their application
Per Olsson

10:00 – 10:30

Health and Communication Break

10:30 – 12:00

Short Papers
Archetypes of adaptation - Klaus Eisenack
Adaptive capacity of supply systems - Diana Hummel

12:00 – 14:30

Lunch

   

Session 3

14:30 17:20

Multi-agent modelling and simulation

Chair: Felix Tretter; Co-Chair: Beate Ratter

   

14:30 – 15:30

Keynote 4:     Multi-agent simulation for representing human/nature interaction: an appropriate basic approach
Peter Mandl  

15:30 – 15:50

Health and Communication Break

15:50 – 17:15

Short Papers
Agent-based models of coastal and marine social-ecological dynamics
Marion Glaser / Gesche Krause

Integrated modelling and decision support for post-tsunami Nicobar Islands
Martin Wildenberg

   

Session 4

17:20 19:45

World System Café

Chair: Martin Welp; Co-Chair: Gesche Krause

   

17:20 – 19:15

Application of systems thinking in social learning for sustainability

 

19:15 – 19:45 Panel Discussion "System lens on social learning"
   
20:00 Wine Tasting
 

 

Saturday, 31 May, 2008 - Day 3

   

Session 5

9:00 10:00

Links to Human Ecology

Chair: Bernhard Glaeser; Co-Chair: Marion Glaser


9:00 – 10:00

Keynote 5:    Social-ecological models in international research and policy practice
Joseph Alcamo

10:00 – 10:20

Health and Communication Break

   

Session 6

10:20 11:40

 

Workshop World System Café - Part II

11:40 – 12:30

Short statements
Human Ecology and SES: Lessons learned
Bernhard Glaeser and Marion Glaser

12:45

DGH members’ assembly (in German)

 

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