Prof. Ortwinn Renn: "Coping with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: New approaches towards risk governance"

July 4, 2011 | 17:15 h - 18:45 h

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn jointly organize a seminar series on Risk and Uncertainty for Sustainable Development.

We would like to cordially invite you to the next lecture of the joint lecture series with:

Professor Ortwin Renn (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Technological and Environmental Sociology)

on: “Coping with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: New approaches towards risk governance”

Chair: Dr. Conrad Schetter, ZEF Senior Researcher

Discussant: Dr. Koko Warner, Head of Section, UNU Bonn (tbc)

Time and place:Monday, July 4,

5.15 p.m. - 6.45 p.m.

at ZEF, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, Bonn (ground floor conference room)

Background information: In this seminar series we will address opportunities, risks and uncertainties for development. Uncertainty, i.e. the unknown unknowns, is a particular challenge. Risk and uncertainty have become a focal topic among development researchers, policy makers and practitioners as worldwide, economy and ecology have been assailed by a series of global crises: financial crisis, high and volatile food and oil price, and/or climate change. These crises present threats to development and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The understanding, mitigating and controlling of risk and uncertainty is far from being understood. The seminar series will be a forum for agenda setting and discussion on related themes with leading experts in this field of research and policy.