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Call for Abstracts: International Conference “MOVING BEYOND RISKS: Organising for Resilience”, which will be held at Hotel Golf in Bled, Slovenia, between 16th and 18th September 2015 The main aim of the conference is to bring together global academic expertise, policy makers and practitioners from High Reliability Organizing, Resilience Engineering, Critical Infrastructures, Risk management and Disasters for developing holistic responses to growing resilience problems. Main conference topics are: Resilience and high reliability – theory for integrated practice (sub-themes can include HRO and NAT theory developments) Risk assessment and management Disaster [...]

Four new Postdoctoral positions on Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: institutions, people and knowledge   A pdf of this overview is available here.  Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Faculty of Sustainability is advertising four postdoctoral positions. They will contribute to the transdisciplinary Leverage Points project. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto underrecognized leverage points – system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole. Leverage Points will focus on changes in relatively intractable, but potentially highly influential, system [...]

This film traces some of the key aspects of regenerative development and the people who are practicing it – the 'regenerates'. The documentary was composed by Alexander Melck (South Africa) and co-produced by Dominique Hes (Australia) and Chrisna du Plessis (South Africa). It features the ideas and practices of a number of regenerates around the world, bravely trying to make the world a better place. These interviews contribute to the book, Designing for Hope available on Routledge. Visit the Contributive Practice website for more info.

The Stockholm Resilience Centre will host the conference Transformations2015 in Stockholm, Sweden 5-7 October 2015. For more information, visit the conference website. Transformations are often discussed as necessary to achieve a just society that thrives within planetary boundaries. The conference Transformations2015 will focus on transformations towards sustainability: the challenge of solving problems in the Anthropocene and creating conditions for good lives for people, today and in the future, while strengthening Earth's life support system. Located in Stockholm, the conference will gather people from various disciplines around the world to share cutting-edge research on [...]

Are you interested in complex networks, multiplex, interdependent networks and the like? This may be a great place to start. For full information on the summer school visit: https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ The summer school is organized by Manlio De Domenico and Alex Arenas in Salina (Italy, from the 3rd to the 8th of September). Brief Description of the Summer School: In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical process they are involved into. The wide variety [...]