Sustainable development The global challenge of this century

This year, we are offering three comprehensive seminars at the Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen, which are largely identical in content and open to the public, in which knowledge of the interrelationships and thematic scope of sustainability will be imparted.

Renowned scientists will give lectures on the central topics of sustainability.

Program

October 23, 2012
11.00 a.m. – Lecture: Sustainability – the challenge of our century Klaus Wiegandt Founder and Chairman of the Foundation Forum for Responsibility, former Spokesman of the Management Board of METRO AG
14.00 – Lecture: The end of the growth society Prof. Dr. Niko Paech Adjunct Professor at the Chair of Production and Environment (PUM) at the University of Oldenburg
16.00 – Lecture: Causes and consequences of climate change Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif Professor at GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel
October 24, 2012
09.00 a.m. – Lecture: Can the earth feed 9 billion people? Prof. Dr. Klaus Hahlbrock Professor of Biochemistry, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne
11.00 a.m. – Lecture: How long will water as a resource last? Prof. Dr. Wolfram Mauser Professor of Geography and Geographical Remote Sensing at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
14.00 – Lecture: How fast is the number of people growing? Prof. Dr. Rainer Münz Head of the Research Department of “Erste Bank” in Vienna, Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)
16.00 – Discussion
October 25, 2012
09.00 a.m. – Lecture: The importance of and threats to biodiversity Prof. Dr. Josef H. Reichholf Former Head of the Vertebrate Department of the State Zoological Collection in Munich and Professor of Nature Conservation at the Technical University of Munich
11.00 a.m. – Lecture: The future of energy supply Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Wagner Professor of Energy Systems and Energy Economics at Ruhr University Bochum
14.00 – Lecture: Education for sustainable development Prof. Dr. Peter Euler Professor of General Education with a focus on the pedagogy of natural and environmental sciences
16.00 – Discussion
October 26, 2012
08.30 a.m. – Lecture: Global Governance Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner Professor of Political Science, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn
10.00 a.m. – Lecture: The great transformation towards sustainability Dr. Bernd Sommer Research Associate at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research (NEC) at the University of Flensburg
11.30 a.m. – Discussion