SENSE Summer Symposium 2002

Date: Wednesday 19 June, 2002 • Location: De Reehorst, Ede

Morning programme

|10.00 |Welcome


~• Nico van Straalen, General Director of SENSE


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|10.15 |Keynote address


~• Bjørn Lomborg (University of Aarhus, Denmark), author of:


~The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (2001)


~This book on the scientific basis of environmental policy has drawn considerable attention and addresses a number of current controversies on environmental change. Critical responses to this book may be found at: Online Debate


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|11.00 |Plenary Exchange


~• Responses to the keynote address by representatives of the SENSE Core programmes


~• Questions & Discussion with the audience


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|white!!Afternoon programme





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|13.30 |Parallel workshop sessions


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| |Please note: this is a meeting for all SENSE members (including both the research leaders and the PhD candidates) and therefore YOUR ideas and initiatives relating to the general issue of Current controversies on environmental change are warmly welcomed for submission. Paper presentations should be limited to approx. 20 minutes each.


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| |Some suggestions for possible session and/or presentation themes are:


~• "Regulation of soil pollution, compared to other stress factors?"


~• "Upscaling of measurement data to policy-relevant contexts?"


~• "Ecosystem resilience?",


~• "(Agro-)Biodiversity conservation?",


~• "Climate changes: causes and consequences?",


~• "Biotechnology and risk assessment?",


~• "Sustainable development and economic growth?",


~• "Stakeholders, transitions, backcasting?",


~• "Models and uncertainty in environmental policy?"


~• "Options for multidisciplinary education and training?"


~• Etc.?


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|17.00 |Drinks