Marisa Beck is a PhD student in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, specializing in Global Environmental Governance. Her research focuses on the interactions between three types of complex systems—the Earth’s climate, the global economy and social value and belief systems. Specifically, she investigates […]
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Speaker: Victor Galaz
Title: Can Information Technology Really Help Save the Planet?
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Category: Talk
Abrupt climate change, “planetary boundaries” and the failure of international institutions to deal with multiple interacting global crises have gained considerable scientific and political attention over the last years. Few sustainability scientists however, […]
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Speaker: Matthew Hoffman
Title: Governance Avalanches: A Self-Organized Criticality Perspective on Innovation in Global Governance
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Matthew Hoffman of the University of Toronto explores the applicability of theories of self-organized criticality to the study of innovation in global governance. He presents both an agent-based model […]
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