The world famous scientist C.S. Holling visits WUR in the first week of June.
C.S. Holling (1930) is a globally known ecologist, who introduced several innovative ideas which had substantial influence not only in ecology, but also in other natural and social sciences. He pointed at the significance of resilience for ecology, brought in the idea of adaptive management and developed the concepts of the adaptive cycle (Holling’s pretzel) and panarchy. He is one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics and the founder of the Resilience Alliance, an international science network. He was one of the first ecologists to recognize the importance of nonlinear dynamics. In the nineties he focused on ‘cross-scale structure and dynamics of ecosystems’. Which in 2002 resulted in the widely appreciated book "Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems".
Monday 31 May:
Round Table discussion.
with C.S. Holling, M. Scheffer, R. Leemans, J. Keulartz, P. Opdam, J. Woodhill
The impact of Science on Policy and Governance.
From early warning to the IPCC.
20.00 – 22.30,
Kleine Veerzaal, Hof van Wageningen, Lawickse Allee 13
Tuesday 1 June:
SENSE Double lecture: Marten Scheffer / Buzz Holling
Changing the traditional way of doing science to realize scientific breakthroughs.
15.00 – 17.00,
Hofstede room (C64), Leeuwenborch
Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen
Wednesday 2 June:
Public Lecture C.S. Holling
Resilience thinking and Ecological Economics.
Broken Society, Broken Ecosystems and Broken Planet.
The Resilience Alliance has a philosophy of social transformation with nature that includes “radical transformative conservatism’, as Philip Blond stated it. Even more since the early failure of welfare in society and its replacement by the free market (of which we now face the collapse of the financial markets) and its extension over the world because of economic globalization emerging since the Berlin Wall fell.
The focus of the Alliance is to detect and assess changes that are triggered by global climate change and to propose and test adaptive policies and ways of living that exploit those changes. The goal, therefore, is to expand ecological and social resilience, i.e. the capacity to deal creatively with the unexpected, and to do so by involving people from both ‘aboriginal’ communities and the sciences.
20.00 -22.00
Aula Generaal Foulkesweg
Monday and Thursday:
Masterclass: Experiments to Innovate During Great Transformations
About resilience of ecosystems and societies, vulnerability of social systems, creative destruction, active adaptive management, etc.
You can still sign in for this class.
More info: Wiebe.Aans@wur.nl