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| Past Annual Meetings |
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AGS Annual Meeting 2005
20-23
March 2005
Cambridge, MA USA
(Conference
Website)
MIT Tech Talk article
The 10th AGS annual
meeting was hosted by MIT in March 2005. Over the course of the
meeting, AGS researchers worked together with representatives from
industry, government, and NGOs, to review the past year's work and
shape new ideas about individual responsibility, leadership, and
education for sustainability. Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director-General,
TERI and IPCC Chairman, served as a keynote speaker for this special
10th anniversary meeting which focused on near-term strategies
toward a sustainable energy future.
AGS Annual Meeting
2004
Research Partnerships toward Global
Sustainability
21-24 March 2004
Goteborg, Sweden
AGS
AM2004 Proceedings (pdf)
News Summary Article, Chalmers University
News Summary Article - Margot Wallstrom at the
AGS
AGS Annual Meeting 2003
Science
Industry and Society: Partnership for Sustainable
Development
23-26 March 2003
Tokyo, Japan
AGS
AM2003 Proceedings (pdf)
At this conference, participants
examined how the integrated research paradigm of the AGS was
effecting change in its members institutions and contributing to
sustainable development around the world. Specific topics included
urban systems; strategies for managing and mitigating environmental
risks; and sustainable consumption.
AGS Annual Meeting
2002
Building the Future: Leadership, Technology, Global
Citizenship
21-23 March 2002
San Jose, Costa Rica
AGS
AM2002 Proceedings (pdf)
This is the first time the AGS
has held an annual meeting at a location other than one of its
member institutions. The meeting focused on Latin America and
examined the AGS research and education portfolio to consider ways
in which the academic community � in partnership with industry,
government, and civil society � can help generate a clear and
focused agenda for the future.
AGS Annual Meeting
2001
Shaping the Future: Tools for Sustainable
Development
14-17 January 2001
Lausanne, Switzerland
AGS
AM2001 Proceedings (pdf)
The 2001 meeting focused on the
question of what kind of tools and concrete strategies within the
concept of sustainable development will help us in shaping the
future. What does science, and specifically the AGS, have to offer
in the field of cutting-edge solutions?
AGS Annual
Meeting 2000
Translating Knowledge into Action and Learning
to Lead
19-22 January 2000
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
AGS
AM2000 Proceedings (pdf)
The goal of the meeting was to
learn about effective ways to translate knowledge into action. How
can we in the academy, and the AGS in particular, help to improve
the basis for decision-making?
AGS Annual Meeting
1999
18-23 January 1999
Tokyo, Japan
The 1999
meeting focused on three main themes: the integration of the topics
of the individual groups for global sustainability; the visible
presentation of the fruits of AGS research activities to the public;
and the scope of the AGS partnership in the 21st
Century.
AGS Annual Meeting 1998
24-27 January
1998
Zurich, Switzerland
This year's program focused on
how AGS could work more closely with less developed countries and
identifying research interests at the AGS partner schools that would
be of interest and benefit to partners in the south. The meeting
also encouraged greater participation of students from the AGS
schools.
AGS Annual Meeting 1997
24-27 January
1997
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The meeting was
designed to meet three goals: to advance the AGS research agenda on
sustainability; to promote research at the interfaces of major
global environmental issues; to explore ways in which the AGS might
better interact with decision makers in government, industry, and
the public interest sector world
wide.
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