October 20 - 22, 2006. Harvard University and TEN Center workshop addresses the grand challenges of sustainability science
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Grand Challenges of Sustainability Science Workshop. October 20-22, 2006.
Twenty world experts on sustainability science will meet at VIU's TEN Center to discuss the principal challenges of research, training and capacity-building facing the rapidly emerging field of sustainability science. The goal is to encorage connections and synergies among a series of related initiatives linking science and technology with sustainability concerns that are now taking shape under the leadership of workshop participants. The workshop is sponsored by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.
Opening Remarks: Amb. Umberto Vattani, President, Venice International University
Prof. William Clark, Co-Director, Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University
Prof. Ignazio Musu, President, TEN Center
Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General, Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea
Conveners:
William Clark, Co-Director, Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University
John Holdren, President, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Kates, C0-Chair, Initiave on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Organizers:
Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Please note that this workshop is by invitation only.
