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Graduate school \u201cLand Resources and Their Sustainable Utilisation\u201d invites PhD students and all interests to visit Dr Gerd Michelsen seminars.<\/p>\nGraduate school \u201cLand Resources and Their Sustainable Utilisation\u201d invites PhD students and all interests to visit Dr Gerd Michelsen seminars.<\/p>\n
Lector: <\/em><\/strong>Professor Gerd Michelsen is senior professor for sustainability science (2014-), being also holder (2005-) of the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development <\/em>at Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg (Germany) and now in 2019 also guest-professor at Environmental Science Department, Place:<\/em><\/strong> LU DAC, 501. room 21 November <\/strong>16:00 \u2013 18:00, room 501 12 December\u00a0<\/strong>16:00 \u2013 18:00, room 501 Graduate school \u201cLand Resources and Their Sustainable Utilisation\u201d invites PhD students and all interests to visit Dr Gerd Michelsen seminars. Lector: Professor Gerd Michelsen is senior professor for sustainability science (2014-), being also holder (2005-) of the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg (Germany) and now in 2019 also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[167,163,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zrii.lu.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFaculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia. He studied economics in Freiburg (Germany), has a doctoral degree in economics and the \u2018venia legendi\u2019 in adult education. From 1995 to 2013 he was a professor for ecology, sustainability and environmental communication, as well as developing and directing the Institute for Sustainability and Environmental Communication at Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg, where he was also Vice-President for Education, Teaching and Training (2004-2006). He received the B.A.U.M. Scientific Award in 1998. His fields of research and publications are in (higher) education for sustainable development, sustainability and environmental communication, sustainable consumption.<\/p>\n
\nWorking language:<\/em><\/strong> english
\nDates:<\/em><\/strong> November 21 and December 12
\nTime:<\/strong><\/em> 16:00-18:00<\/p>\n
\nSustainability Science: why and for what?<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe lecture deals with the question of what characterizes sustainability research<\/em> in the context of science. Backgrounds such as the special role of science in the horizon of sustainability are discussed, whereby aspects such as disciplinarity, inter- and transdisciplinarity play a role. Socially oriented research, research as a learning process and context dependency of research are explained as central elements of sustainability research<\/em>. Finally, the question of the opportunities and limits of sustainability research is addressed. In small groups, open questions will be discussed and a task will be worked on.<\/p>\n
\nInter- and Transdisciplinarity in Research<\/strong><\/span>
\nThis lecture focuses on questions concerning the process of sustainability research<\/em>. In particular, project organization, knowledge generation, methodological aspects such as the integration of different knowledge bases are discussed. Furthermore, different approaches and understandings of transdisciplinarity are presented. The process of transdisciplinary research<\/em> in its different phases will be made more concrete by means of the associated key questions and an example. Finally, open questions will be discussed in small groups, experiences will be exchanged and exercises will be worked on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"