WICI Seminar - Trade Versus The Environment: Strategic Settlement from a Systems Engineering Perspective – Keith Hipel

[Catherine Mombourquette]

*WICI Seminar - ‘Trade  Versus  The Environment: Strategic Settlement 
from a Systems Engineering Perspective' – Keith Hipel*


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*Waterloo Applied Complexity and Innovation Seminar*

*Trade  Versus  The Environment: Strategic Settlement from a Systems 
Engineering Perspective     *

*Keith Hipel*

Keith Hipel will discuss his experiences using graph theory and conflict 
analysis to talk about problems in the environment and make some links 
to complexity theory. The key goal of this research is to employ a 
Systems Engineering approach to conflict resolution to clearly identify 
the ubiquitous conflict taking place at the local, national and global 
levels between the basic values underlying trading agreements and those 
principles providing the foundations for environmental stewardship. The 
results of the work suggest some solutions as to how this most basic of 
disputes can be responsibly resolved.

 

*The focus of this seminar series is to bring together students and 
researchers from across UW who are interested in understanding the 
complex processes that will be central to human well being in the 21st 
century.*

 

Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Time:  3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Burgundy Room in the University Club, University of Waterloo

RSVP:  by contacting Catherine Mombourquette at cmombour at uwaterloo.ca or 
at http://sig.uwaterloo.ca/WICI_Seminars.html

FREE ADMISSION

For more information contact  

Catherine Mombourquette at cmombour at uwaterloo.ca 519.888.4567, ext. 84490


KEITH W. HIPEL is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering and 
Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of 
Waterloo. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance 
Innovation and Vice President of the Canadian Academy of Sciences. His 
major research interests are the development of conflict resolution, 
multiple objective decision making and time series analysis techniques 
from a systems thinking perspective with applications in water resources 
management, hydrology, environmental engineering and sustainable 
development. He has received widespread recognition for his research via 
Fellow designations from six organizations including the Royal Society 
of Canada.

-- 
Catherine Mombourquette
Secretary, SiG at Waterloo

Social Innovation Generation
University of Waterloo
195 King Street West, Suite 202
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 1B1
519-888-4567 ext. 32525
cmombour at uwaterloo.ca 
http://sig.uwaterloo.ca 

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