Conference Session: Options and opportunities - Challenges of integration
This session will focus on the main challenges of the integration of scientific disciplines within the context of global change. The main goal of the session is to enable open discussions with conference participants, to exchange experiences and develop ideas about best integrated research practices, and how to help contribute to providing solutions to the grand challenges of global sustainability.
This session will focus on the main challenges of the integration of scientific disciplines within the context of global change. The main goal of the session is to enable open discussions with conference participants, to exchange experiences and develop ideas about best integrated research practices, and how to help contribute to providing solutions to the grand challenges of global sustainability.
The conference session will be chaired by Wolfram Mauser, Rik Leemans and Heide Hackmann.
Convenors will be:
Gernot Klepper, German National Committee on Global Change Research;
Wolfram Mauser, Ludwig Maximilians University;
Heide Hackmann, International Social Science Council;
Rik Leemans, Earth System Science Partnership
During the event, CCAFS Theme Leader Patti Kristjanson and Science Officer Moushumi Chaudhury, as well as CCAFS Scenarios Officer Joost Vervoort will be presenting the paper 'Participatory scenario development as a tool for spanning boundaries between disciplines, sectors and system levels'. For more information about this specific conference session, please click here.