Themes & Sessions

Please click on the themes for detailed information.

NB all powerpoint presentations from the parallel sessions will be available from the 15th of september 2009.  

Introduction by the conference chair Roeland J. in 't Veld (powerpoint presentation)

1. Knowledge & Future Research
    1.1     Problems & Opportunities
    1.2     Scanning the Horizon
    1.3     The Future in Policy-making 
    1.4     Future Research and Strategic Policy making: How do
              the Two Relate?
    1.5     Towards a Better Governance of Long-term 
              Decision-making 

2. State of the Art in Transdisciplinary Research
    2.1      Transdisciplinary Research: Its Possibilities
               and Limitations
    2.2      Creating the Landscape: Scientific Knowledge in Regional
               Case Studies
    2.3      Transdisciplinary Research: Its contribution to Problem
               Solving and the Consequences for Higher Education
    2.4      Stimulating Informed Debate on Sustainable Development
    2.5      Transdisciplinary Research as Social Learning 
    2.6      Sustainable Value Development through New
               Knowledge Creation
    2.7      The Transition Approach and the Resilience Approach:
               What can we learn?
    2.8      Roles, Competence and Action Perspectives of Actors 
               in Transdisciplinary Research
    2.9      Research and Knowledge Transfer in Water
               Management   

3. Practical Approaches to Boundary Work  
    3.1     Boundary Work and Transition Management  
    3.2     Mainstreaming Citizen Participation
    3.3     Collaborative Knowledge Production
    3.4     A New Methodology for Policy Research? 
    3.5     Boundary Institutions in Science Governance- 
              Triangulating Knowledge and Democratic Practice 
    3.6     Implications for the Science-policy Interface      
    3.7     Practical Approaches to Boundary Work around
              Transformative Change