The 2009 conference is hosted by The Science Shop, Queen's University Belfast

Workshop 3.1: Climate Change, Science and Civil Society

Friday 28^th August 2009 

11.30 – 13:00 

Venue: to be confirmed

Chair: Dr John Barry, Institute for the Sustainable World, Queen’s University Belfast, NI

Presenters:

Michael Jorgensen

"Local climate change activities in co-operation between municipality, civil society and science shop"  Science Shop, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

Dick Sclove

"The world wide views on global warming project" Loka Institute, Amherst, USA

Wolfgang Endler

“Contributions of a science shop to foster sustainable development taking urban canal banks as an example”  Science Shop kubus, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Format:

This workshop has been structured to encourage the involvement of all the participants.   The presentations will each last for 10 minutes and the Chair will then facilitate discussion for the remainder of the session.

Questions:

Discussion will focus on the following 4 questions:

• What are the barriers to academics more effectively engaging with civil society organisations in relation to climate change?  How might these be overcome?
• What institutional changes might be needed within universities to encourage more effective links between academics, scientists and civil society organisations working on climate change?
• Is the relationship between scientists/academics and civil society one-way?
• How can public involvement in climate change science and research be ‘upstreamed’ to achieve a greater emphasis on collaborative co-production of knowledge?