*3rd Viennese Talks on Resilience Research & Networks**
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/When Networks fall apart - Managing Cohesion in a World under Stress/
Increased global economic competition and selective pressure, obvious
rising interdependence
and non-linear complexity of socio-ecological systems, the almost
explosive acceleration of
communication and information stimuli have noticeably increased stress
in our world.
The outcome of stress can be found everywhere: isolation, fragmentation,
over-specialization,
loss of diversity, tribalization and lack of common vision are the
result of a world where agents
try to cope with the "aggression" of excess or shortage of resources or
information and fight for
maintaining their integrity as individuals. The capacity to innovate, to
adapt, and to cope with
change is significantly diminished.
To understand the driving factors of networks capable to manage stress
and to cope with
disturbances and surprise is linked with one core question: What holds
socio-ecological
networks together and keeping them from falling apart?
The workshop brings together scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs
from the field of systems
ecology, network theory, resilience theory, urban ecology, social
dynamics, etc. to discuss the
role of ecological and social cohesion within the broader framework of
resilience theory.
3rd Viennese Talks on Resilience Research & Networks
Date: Friday, June 21st 2013, 09:00am -- 05:00pm
Place: House of Industry, Urban Saal, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1031 Wien
Language: English
Participation is free, but subject to registration: off...@fas.at
Organizing Committee:
Brian Fath, Towson University & IIASA (bf...@towson.edu
<mailto:bf...@towson.edu>)
Harald Katzmair, FAS.research
Klemens Riegler, Ecosocial Forum
