Call for abstracts: Leuphana Sustainability Summit 2012 (Track Corporate
Responsibility)
"Sustainability: Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach"
Leuphana University of Luenburg, Lueneburg, Germany
29 February - 2nd March, 2012
A growing number of businesses is dealing with corporate sustainability
issues. As corporate sustainability covers a wide range of complex topics
such as emission reductions, biodiversity management,
sustainability-oriented product and service innovation, sustainable supply
chain management, or corporate influences on communities and regional
development, its successful implementation depends on the contributions of
experts from various disciplines in management, environmental science,
psychology, sociology, economics, and related disciplines. In fact, the
complexity of many sustainability challenges requires problem-solving
approaches that transcend not only boundaries between academic disciplines
but also between academics and practitioners. This is what
transdisciplinarity is about.
Situated at one of Europes most reputable sustainable universities, the
conference will enable leading researchers and high-level decision-makers to
meet in a transdisciplinary setting with a goal of creating new insights to
help move sustainability forward. To accomplish this, 60% of the
participants (researchers and decision-makers) will be invited, while 40%
will be selected by a rigorous peer-review of an international board.
The track "Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability" is offered by
the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) and the The Academy of
Business in Society (EABIS).
The deadline for abstract submission (500 words) is 31 October, 2011.
The full call is available at: http://www.leuphana.de/sustainability-summit