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Dutch Science Talks: Prof. Derk Loorbach to Speak on Transitions Management

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On September 17, 2019 Professor Derk Loorbach (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) will deliver a lecture on ‘Sustainability Transitions: New Governance and Action Research’. The event is a part of the Dutch Science Talks project and the public lectures of the HSE ISSEK Master’s programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’.

Lecture Abstract

This lecture will introduce the audience to sustainability transitions research and transition governance. This area of research originated in the Netherlands 20 years ago, but now is a worldwide area of research that focuses on understanding structural systemic changes in society and developing strategies to accelerate and guide these transitions towards sustainability.

The lecturer will draw upon examples from transitions in energy, food and mobility as well as urban transitions to explain how we can understand the mechanisms and drivers behind current transitions. This makes clear that transitions are inherently uncertain and chaotic as they involve changes in behaviour, affect vested interests and create deep societal tensions. However, these transitions are capable of creating the space for alternative technologies, practices, values and structures to develop.

The approach of transition management will be presented as a strategy for transformative policy, business, civil society and research to work together to advance desired transitions.

On Speaker

Derk Loorbach is the Director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) and Professor of Socio-Economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. DRIFT is a world-leading institute for research on and for sustainability transitions. The institute conducts interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to understand and facilitate the new ways of thinking, doing and organising in contemporary transitions.

Professor Loorbach is one of the founders of the transition management approach as the new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker in and outside Europe.

Date and time: Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 18:10—19:30 p. m.

Place: 11 Myasnitskaya Str., room 330

Language of lecture: English (without translation)

If you need a pass in order to join the lecture please register.