We will organize the 9th Policy Platform (PoP) Seminar on Friday, July 12 in the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo. Dr. Derk Loorbach of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands will discuss the theory and practice of transition management to integrate science, governance, and entrepreneurship for promoting major societal changes towards sustainability. 9th Policy Platform (PoP) Seminar Date: Friday, July 12, 2013, 17:00-19:00 Venue: Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), Conference Room, Second Floor, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo Title: Transition Management: Science, Governance and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Transitions Speaker: Dr. Derk Loorbach, Director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Abstract: This lecture will introduce the transition management approach as it has developed over the last decade in Europe and beyond. Transition management is a governance approach that brings together business, science, policy and civil society in new ways to guide and accelerate major systemic changes in society towards sustainability. The transition perspective shows that most of the urgent sustainability challenges cannot be solved only by new technologies, top-down policies or market-based innovation. Rather, transitions are fundamental systemic changes in the way that we have organized and institutionalized societal systems such as energy, food, health care, education and welfare. As the global changes and pressures combined with bottom-up innovations increasingly show the pathways to possible sustainable futures, the core challenge becomes how to collectively shift our cultures, structures and practices in this direction. This lecture will present the theory as well as practical examples how such major transitions to sustainability can be analyzed and influenced, through research, policy, entrepreneurship and social innovation.
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