[voew-listserver] Winterschool on Earth System Governance
- From: Bernd Siebenhüner <bernd.siebenhuener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:22:11 +0200
PhD WINTER SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGE OF ADAPTIVE
GOVERNANCE
---------------------------------------- Call for Applications
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Duration: 24 November -- 4 December 2009
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2009
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam,
in collaboration with the SENSE Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural
Sciences of the Environment welcomes applications for the 2009 European PhD
Winter School on Earth System Governance: The Challenge of Adaptive Governance
(SENSE Course S460).
The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance
aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an
integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of
a transition to more sustainable development paths at the national and global
levels, with a particular focus on questions of adaptation and adaptiveness. It
brings together insights from the modeling, integrated assessment, and
sustainability science communities and from the social science,
governance-oriented research communities.
The 2009 European PhD Winter School is supported by the European Union Marie
Curie Action and endorsed by the international Global Governance Project
(www.glogov.org).
The Winter School covers the basic costs for all participants, including a
travel subsidy for non-Dutch participants (maximum of 250 EUR), accommodation,
lunch, tea and coffee, the teaching materials and a number of social events. In
addition, the 2009 European PhD Winter School also includes participation in
the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change: Earth System Governance (2-4 December 2009). For more details on the
conference, visit: http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/ac2009/.
The participation fee is EUR 250 for European participants and EUR 200 for
non-European participants.
In addition to participating in the lectures and class discussions, a number of
students have the opportunity to present their current research to a group of
distinguished experts for intense discussion. If you want your work to be
discussed in a PhD Masterclass, please attach an abstract of your paper to the
application material. Papers should address the adaptiveness of earth system
governance, a theme that includes here related concepts such as adaptation,
adaptive management, resilience, or vulnerability. What are the politics of
adaptiveness? Which governance processes foster it? What attributes of
governance systems enhance capacities to adapt? How, when and why does
adaptiveness influence earth system governance?
Students are encouraged to also submit their papers to the 2009 Amsterdam
Conference.
To apply, please send a letter of motivation and a recent CV to:
Hilko.Blok@xxxxxxxxxx
To be included in the Masterclass section, please attach a research paper that
addresses the challenge of adaptive governance.
For more information and a more detailed program (coming soon), please visit:
http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/ac2009/?page=summerschool
Dr Philipp Pattberg
Academic Director, Marie Curie PhD Schools on the Human Dimension of Global
Environmental Change
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