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Limits to Growth Revisited - Call for Applications - Volkswagen Foundation Winter School; Hanover, Germany; November 24 to December 1, 2012
The buzzword of our time, “sustainability”, is closely related to a book published 40 years ago, in 1972: “The Limits to Growth” by an MIT project team involving Donella and Dennis Meadows. Only few things seem to have changed since then. Again the various developments in different societies call for new matching modes of thinking that promise a secure future for everyone. What is smart or good growth? Why are so many findings of the report still unresolved? Will there be solutions? And which ones could that be?
In order to give fresh impetus to the debate, the Volkswagen Foundation, who funded “Limits to Growth”, aims to foster new thinking and the development of different models in all areas related to the “Limits to Growth” study at the crossroads of natural and social sciences.
The Winter School “Limits to Growth Revisited” (November 24 to December 1, 2012) is directed specifically at highly talented young scholars from related disciplines.
The Volkswagen Foundation intends to grant this selected group of post docs and PhD students the opportunity to develop new hypotheses, ideas, and questions. These results will be presented at an international conference on “Limits to Growth” in Hanover held by the Volkswagen Foundation and Dennis Meadows together with high-ranking international experts from various disciplines on the “Limits to Growth” topics. The conference will take place in Hanover (Germany) on Wednesday, 28 and Thursday 29 November, 2012. Please visit: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/limits
Applications are to be submitted as a pdf file before April 30, 2012 to ltg@volkswagenstiftung.de.
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Dr. Thomas Brunotte VolkswagenStiftung Kastanienallee 35 30519 Hannover Germany // Nataliya Moor
(email: Brunotte@VolkswagenStiftung.de ; ltg@volkswagenstiftung.de) Phone: +49 (0)511 8381-297 Fax: +49 (0)511 8381-4297 // +49 511 8381 227 |
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| News type | CallForPaper |
| File link |
http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/limits |
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| Source of information | Global Young Academy |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND |
| Relation | http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/ |
| Geographical coverage | Germany |
| News date | 22/02/2012 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
