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Keynote Speakers

(in order of   appearance)

Keynote Speaker I: 

Professor of Science & Technology Policy

 

 

鈥孠eynote presentation title: 鈥淥pening Up Sustainability: transitions, transdisciplinarity and transformation!鈥&苍产蝉辫;StirlingA

 is an interdisciplinary researcher at , where he codirects the and .  Focusing on challenges around 鈥樷 more of , , , and , his work addresses issues like: , , , , , , , , and . Andy has served on advisory bodies for the EU on , , , and ; for the UK government on , , ; and working groups of the , , , , and the . He鈥檚 served on boards for several journals, ,   and on the of the .

 

Keynote Speaker II: 

Associate Director, 

Director, 

 

 

鈥孠eynote presentation title: 鈥淧olitics, Ethics and Techno-optimism: Transdisciplinary thoughts on transitions from unsustainability鈥&苍产蝉辫;BarryJ

Dr.  is Reader in Green Political Economy within the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queens 深夜亚洲福利久久 Belfast.  His research focuses on the normative, economic, political and cultural dimensions of the transition from current unsustainable forms of development; peak oil and energy (in)security; public policy and public attitudes towards low carbon energy proposals, heterodox political economy and democratic citizenship and green political theory.  His publications include,  (1999, Sage) - winner of the Political Studies Association WJM Mackenzie prize for best book published in political science,  (2007, Routledge).   His latest book is  (2012, Oxford 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press).

 

Keynote Speaker III: 

 

 
  

鈥孠eynote presentation title: Sustainable regional development and resource utilisation鈥&苍产蝉辫;NarodoslawskyM

Study of Chemical Engineering from 1973 to 1981 at the Graz 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Technology, Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Doctoral Study from 1981 to 1985 at the . Head of Institute for Resource Efficient and Sustainable Systems at TU Graz since its foundation in 2003 until end of 2005.

Until 2004 he acted as chairman of the National Research Network SUSTAIN that was the first interdisciplinary Austrian initiative at research for sustainability.

He headed the European Network ENSURE dealing with urban and regional sustainable development and this capacity took part in a number of European projects, among them SUSCOM (dealing with local agenda 21 activities throughout Europe), Regionet (summarising the sustainable regional initiatives throughout Europe), SUSTEN (analysing the implementation of the RES-E directive in various European countries.

His current research work includes life cycle analysis for technologies on the base of renewable resources, regional technology networks for renewable resources and biorefinery development.

Prof. Narodoslawsky heads the research group Process Synthesis, Process Evaluation and Regional Development at the TU Graz. He heads the 鈥淏ioenergy鈥 Working Group within the SET-Plan Education Task force of the E.C. and chairs the working group 鈥淏ioresources鈥 of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance (eseia).

 

Keynote Speaker (late circumstantial withdrawal): 

Piet Strydom

 

&苍产蝉辫;鈥屸赌

Piet Strydom, originally an 茅migr茅 from the apartheid regime, is since 2011 a retired member of the School of Sociology and Philosophy, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, Ireland. He is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory. Besides many articles, some well noted, in anthologies, encyclopaedias and journals, major publications include Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology (Routledge, 2011), New Horizons of Critical Theory: Collective Learning and Triple Contingency (Shipra, 2009), Risk, Environment and Society (Open UP, 2002), Discourse and Knowledge (Liverpool UP, 2000). He edited Philosophies of Social Science (Open UP, 2003, with Gerard Delanty) as well as special issues of the European Journal of Social Theory (鈥淪ocial Theory after the Cognitive Revolution鈥)and the Irish Journal of Sociology. At present, he is continuing his pursuit of a new version of a critical pragmatic social science vitally enriched by an often misunderstood cognitive component.

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