MAY 22-25, 2019 | BSIA, WATERLOO
Several WICI members are participating in talks and special sessions this week at the CANSEE Engaging Economies of Change conference, which opens tomorrow and runs until Saturday.
A detailed program can be viewed online here.
If you are going, be sure to catch the following talks by WICI members, among the many great sessions offered:
Flash talk on Thursday May 23 @ 10:10: Katharine Zywert - Building networks of community care in times of ecological and economic change: How care farming improves health across scales
Special Session on Thursday May 23@ 11:50
Christopher Luederitz, Aleksandra Sza arska, Rich Hrytzak - Brewing up sustainability transitions: How craft beer breweries construct sustainability-oriented niches
Special Sessions on Thursday May 23@ 4:10:
Kirsten Wright, David Robinson, Terry Stewart, Mark Tovey, Sean Gobey - Agent-Based Modelling of Social Innovation, Resilience, and Opinion Dynamics
Johnella Bradshaw, Simron Singh - The Weight of Islands: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
Wei Jia, Simron Singh, Michael Wood - Can the Caribbean live within the Doughnut? Assessing the social and environmental performance of 5 island nations
Truzaar Dordi - The Ethical and Financial Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Friday May 24@ 11:50:
Kathryn Fair, Chris Bauch, Madhur Anand - Climate Change and the Future of Forest-Grassland Mosaics
Friday May 24@ 3:40-5:40:
Perin Ruttonsha, Kirsten Wright, Truzaar Dordi, Katharine Zywert, Mark Tovey, Jude Kurniawan, Jonathan Hui - (The) State(s) of Complexity
Complexity science is seminal to the study of sustainability and resilience. Complexity characterizes the conditions in which we are transitioning, the processes by which we are mobilizing, as well as the fundamental nature of related issues. In this interactive workshop, we will examine opportunities to tackle critical global challenges through the application of “big picture” complexity science, organized around the following themes: (1) human ecologies- and- environmental interactions; (2) systems thresholds and risk mitigation; (3) metabolism, scale and growth; (4) sensemaking for complexity; (5) processes and phases of change over time; and, (6) social networks, institutions and human development.
Keynote on Saturday, May 25@ 9:00:Stephen Quilley, Paul Gregory, David Mayberry, Hanna Atkinson Renglich - Green Politics and the Right: Possible Alliance?
Special Session on Saturday, May 25@ 1:10:
Truzaar Dordi, Nicole McCallum - Launch of the Regional Sustainability Corridor (Waterloo Region)
Special Session on Saturday, May 25@ 3:00:
Perin Ruttonsha - A Sustainability Science of Living Systems for Political-Economies of Regrowth