Deadline Extended 7 February - International Conference on Sustainable Transitions IST 2012, Copenhagen, August 29-21 2012

[Gavin]

Forwarded for Adrian Smith. Please note, the deadline has been
extended to 7 February.


The Technical University of Denmark will host the

3rd International Conference on Sustainability Transitions with the
title

Sustainable Transitions: Navigating Theories and Challenging Realities


The need for societal sustainability strategies is globally recognized
and reflected in the coming Rio+20 Earth Summit. In the wake of the
current international economic crisis such strategies are increasingly
framed in a ‘green growth’ discourse, where economic and ecological
problems are addressed through the promotion of clean technologies and
‘smart’ solutions: Smart cities, smart grids and smart growth. While
such efficiency strategies may provide for changes in specific sectors
and cross-sector practices, they are not likely to facilitate the type
of pervasive transformative changes at the system level needed to deal
with the entrenched character of the current climate and resource
utilisation challenges.

Previous STRN conferences in Amsterdam and Lund have explored the
plurality of issues related to such transition processes. Various
approaches have been developed to describe the path-dependency of
socio-technical systems’ developments and to explore and engage in
transition’s challenges.

This third IST conference hosted by the ‘SusTrans’ research alliance
in Denmark welcomes further explorative studies. Furthermore, it also
aims to engage in the core research program of the community through
deepening the analysis of how opportunities for transformative change
of systems reconfigurations may be recognized and exploited. This
includes strategies for changing or dismantling existing systems as
well as nurturing diversity in solution frames.

Date: August 29-31, 2012

Place: Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen

See full call at: www.ist2012.dk

Mail to organizers in...@ist2012.dk