Launch of World Social Science Report 2013 in Norway
The 2013 World Social Science Report "Changing Global Environments" represents a comprehensive overview of the field.
This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences in confronting climate and broader processes of environmental change, and in addressing priority problems from energy and water, biodiversity and land use, to urbanisation, migration and education.
The report includes 100 articles written by 150 authors from 41 countries all over the world. ISSC has produced and edited the report, and published it in cooperation with UNESCO and OECD. Authors represent some 24 disciplines, mainly in the social sciences. Amongst them previous members of CROP Scientific Committee, Karen O'Brien of the Universitey of Oslo and Asuncion Lera St.Clair of CICERO.
The contributions highlight the central importance of social science knowledge for environmental change research, as a means of understanding changing environments in terms of social processes and as framework for finding concrete solutions towards sustainability.
Sign up before April 8th. The Seminar will also be streamed live on the Internet.
The Report can be downloaded for free, by clicking here.
