issues 2 issues: transferring knowledge into practice
May 15th 2008, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
event aim
With a common goal of enhancing the sustainability and quality of life of urban living, this seminar
brought together social scientists, environmental scientists and practitioners from a range of
disciplines and sectors to discuss the barriers to jointly taking forward research and practice. This event was a collaboration between the ISSUES Project and the 'Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services (ISSUES)' seminar series.
event summary
The event was divided into morning and afternoon sessions, each opening with an
introduction and two or three short (10 min) talks to frame the discussion sessions to
follow, for which the attendees were split into three facilitated groups consisting of both
academics and practitioners. The speakers were asked to refrain from pulling punches
in their talks to encourage lively debate and this was indeed evident in much of their
content. The discussion questions were paired to encourage the attendees to give
answers from their own perspectives and to draw out common problems, opportunities
for bridge-building and ideas for improving knowledge transfer that both groups would
subscribe to.
- How can natural scientists, social scientists, economists & non-academics better collaborate to sustain ecosystem services?
- Many models, approaches and indicators are already available: why aren't they being used? Bad tools or bad communication?
- Case studies; where research has informed policy development e.g. SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) in?Scotland;initiatives that encourage recycling, reuse and waste minimisation
event outputs
Click here to access presentations from the day.
ISSUES May 2008 Event Report - full event report by the ISSUES Team
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