Inauguración del curso académico 2015-2016

16/09/2015

El Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencia y Tecnologías de la Sostenibilidad inaugura el curso académico 2015-2016 con la lección inaugural Transformational Sustainability Research. Developing Evidence-Supported Solutions, a cargo de Arnim Wiek (School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA).

El acto de inauguración tendrá lugar el lunes 21 de septiembre, a las 12 horas, la sala de actos de la FIB (planta 0, Edificio B6. Campus Nord de la UPC).

ARNIM WIEK is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. His group develops evidence-supported solutions to urban development, climate change, and public health challenges in collaboration with government, businesses, and community groups. Dr. Wiek had research and teaching engagements at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, the University of Tokyo, and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.

Transformational Sustainability Research, Developing Evidence-Supported Solutions

Sustainability problems amass and prevail, while problem-solving efforts often fail. Despite ambitious intentions, most sustainability research projects struggle to develop robust solutions – either they continue to be problem-focused, or they do not provide sufficient evidence for the solutions they propose. This talk presents a novel methodology for sustainability research that is capable of developing evidence-supported solutions that are transformational.

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