4th Lüneburg Workshop

4th Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication

 

Communication and Learning in Networks

Potentials and Challenges for Environmental Sustainability

4th Lüneburg Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability Communication

Programme

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Scope
This workshop examines communication and learning in social networks and the resulting challenges and potentials for strengthening ecologically sustainable development. How do networks foster communication and (collective) learning?
What are the different approaches and particular challenges to gathering data of this sort? What are the strengths and limitations of adopting a network approach to learning? To what extent can one link social networks to ideas of sustainable development? Particularly, but by no means exclusively, the workshop will focus on networks in the context of policy making and governance. Taking into account different possible spatial and administrative levels – from the very local to the global – and different network approaches, the workshop will provide an arena for cross-disciplinary learning on this important topic. The workshop is unique in scope in that it brings together scholars from diverse sub-disciplines and fields such as sociology, social network analysis, actor-network theory, political science (governance networks), cultural sociology (e. g. “network society”), anthropology, globalization and cultural studies, management and organizational science, and education. Doing so, the workshop will explore new avenues of sustainability-oriented research.

Venue
Leuphana University,Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU), Scharnhorststr. 1, (University Campus, building 14, 1st floor, see <link campus lageplaene.html lagelplaene.html external-link-new-window>map), Lüneburg, Germany. For more information about the more than 1000 year old city of Lüneburg, please consult www.lueneburg.de (also available in English). For more details about how to reach the INFU, <link en institute infu contact.html. _blank external-link-new-window>click here.

Registration

Registration
There is no workshop fee. Please register using the form which can be downloaded below and fax or mail the completed
form at the latest by 14th of September 2006 to:
Katharina Dobrick
Leuphana University Lüneburg / INFU
Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Fax: +49 / (0) 4131 / 677- 2819; e-mail: katharina.dobrick@stud.leuphana.de (Please Note! The Email-Adress for Registration has changed: katharina.dobrick@stud.leuphana.de)