MODERATOR: Dr. Alan Bond is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of East Anglia (UK) and Extraordinary Professor at North West University (South Africa). He runs an MSc programme on Environmental Assessment and Management, is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Impact Assessment Review and co-Chair of IAIA’s Emerging Technology section.

OPENING REMARKS:Stephen O’Driscoll was appointed as Head of Environment, Climate and Social Policy at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in March 2020. He joined the EIB in 2008 and was previously the Head of the Air, Maritime and Innovative Transport Division. He is overseeing policy development, standards and the application of procedures at a time when the Bank is evolving into the Climate Bank of the European Union.

INTRODUCTION: Jiri Dusik (INTEGRA Group, Czech Technical University, Prague) has over 20 years of experience in integration of environmental issues into planning and policy-making processes. He has co-authored the EC Handbook on SEA in EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 and the European Commission’s Guidance for Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity into SEA and EIA processes. He is also a co-author of the UNECE manual for the Practical Application of the SEA Protocol to the Convention on EIA in a Transboundary Context.

PANELIST: Mike Jones has over 40 years of experience as an ecosystem manager including planning, impact assessment and policy development and five years’ experience teaching resilience thinking for sustainable development at Master’s level to international students. He has four publications on the application of resilience thinking to impact assessment.

PANELIST: Michael Schoon is a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (USA).  His dissertation, under Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, was on institutions and governance in southern African conservation.  His work primarily examines collaboration to improve governance outcomes of social-ecological systems in southern Africa, Ecuador, and at home in Arizona.

PANELIST: Lindsay J. Robertson (FIMechE, FIPENZ) received his PhD from Wollongong on the theme of technological risk, exposure, and resilience. He held positions with the New Zealand Government (1976-1987), with Fonterra Research Centre (1990- 2007), as principal engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff (2007-2016), and at Massey University. His ongoing research interest is in technological vulnerability and exposure.

PANELIST: Dr. Miltos Ladikas is senior researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He has studied Social Psychology and has held research positions in the UK and Germany specializing in science and society issues. He has coordinated a number of international projects in the areas of science and technology policy and advises a number of International and National Research Funding organizations on social-ethical issues in STI developments. His current work focuses on Global aspects of Technology Assessment, Responsible Innovation, Ethics in Science and Technology Policy, as well as Science Diplomacy. (See http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_ladikas_miltos.php.)

PANELIST: Lilly Lim-Camacho is Research Group Leader of Climate Smart Agriculture at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. She is a value chain scientist focused on supporting industry in an era of global change, through applied systems approaches. Her expertise is in value chain management and analysis, which she applies in a range of challenges including climate adaptation, sustainable development and social inclusion. Lilly utilizes strong science communication and engagement techniques in her research, working with a wide range of stakeholders both in the public and private sectors. She is currently involved in a range of national and international projects aimed at harnessing value chain analytics to build sustainable, resilient and competitive global value chains.

PANELIST: Pieter van Boheemen is a Digital Society researcher at the Rathenau Instituut. He is one of the authors of the reports “Cyber resilience with New Technology” (2020), “Digitalisation of the News” (2018), and the forth-coming report “Disinformation and New Technology” (2020).

PANELIST: David Yu researches the resilience of coupled systems (socio-technical, socio-hydrological, or social-ecological) in the face of novel change and uncertainty associated with globalization and climate change and how biophysical and institutional (rules, norms, and procedures) factors affect the long-term trajectories of individual and system-level responses. David uses systems modeling, case study analysis, and behavioral experiments to conduct the research. David received a B.ASc. in Engineering Science at the Simon Fraser University and his M.P.P at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His Ph.D. is in Sustainability Science from the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

PANELIST: Bryan Jenkins is a sustainability strategist. He is the President of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. Previously he was Professor (Strategic Water Management) at the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, Chief Executive of Environment Canterbury, and Chief Executive of the Department of Environmental Protection in Western Australia. Prior to that, he had more than 20 years’ experience in environmental management consulting throughout Australia, Southeast Asia, India, and China. He has a PhD in environmental planning from Stanford University, a masters and first-class honours degrees in civil engineering from Adelaide University, and a master of administration from Monash University.

PANELIST: Florian Roth is a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany, focusing on transformation processes in support of socio-technical resilience and innovation. Before joining Fraunhofer ISI in 2019, he was part of the CSS Risk & Resilience Team at ETH Zurich.

PRESENTATION: Introduction to resilience in socio-ecological systems

Mike Jones has over 40 years of experience as an ecosystem manager including planning, impact assessment and policy development and five years’ experience teaching resilience thinking for sustainable development at Master’s level to international students. He has four publications on the application of resilience thinking to impact assessment.

PRESENTATION: Resilience case study:  COVID-19

Dr. Alan Bond is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of East Anglia (UK) and Extraordinary Professor at North West University (South Africa). He runs an MSc programme on Environmental Assessment and Management, is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Impact Assessment Review and co-Chair of IAIA’s Emerging Technology section.

Plus Mikes Jones (see above).

PRESENTATION: Perspectives on case studies from different stances

Francesca Viliani is the Director of Public Health and Sustainability at International SOS and a Chatham House fellow. She is a specialist in public health and sustainable development, with over 25 years of work experience across the globe. She has been working on pandemic preparedness and response with public and private organizations.

Dr. Juan Palerm is Team Leader for EuropeAid’s Environment & Climate Change Mainstreaming Facility, which provides technical assistance on the integration of environment and climate change in EU development cooperation. Juan has been working on environmental assessment and policy in the context of development cooperation for the last 18 years.

Angelo Jonas Imperiale has a PhD in rural sociology and disaster risk reduction from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His expertise is social impact assessment, community resilience, and sustainable development in vulnerable regions. In 2015, he was the first recipient of the Rita Hamm IA Excellence Scholarship of the International Association for Impact Assessment. 

Michael Schoon is a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (USA).  His dissertation, under Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, was on institutions and governance in southern African conservation.  His work primarily examines collaboration to improve governance outcomes of social-ecological systems in southern Africa, Ecuador, and at home in Arizona.

Lindsay J. Robertson (FIMechE, FIPENZ) received his PhD from Wollongong on the theme of technological risk, exposure, and resilience. He held positions with the New Zealand Government (1976-1987), with Fonterra Research Centre (1990- 2007), as principal engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff (2007-2016), and at Massey University. His ongoing research interest is in technological vulnerability and exposure.

Bryan Jenkins is a sustainability strategist. He is the President of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. Previously he was Professor (Strategic Water Management) at the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, Chief Executive of Environment Canterbury, and Chief Executive of the Department of Environmental Protection in Western Australia. Prior to that, he had more than 20 years’ experience in environmental management consulting throughout Australia, Southeast Asia, India, and China. He has a PhD in environmental planning from Stanford University, a masters and first-class honours degrees in civil engineering from Adelaide University, and a master of administration from Monash University.

Dr. Miltos Ladikas is senior researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He has studied Social Psychology and has held research positions in the UK and Germany specializing in science and society issues. He has coordinated a number of international projects in the areas of science and technology policy and advises a number of International and National Research Funding organizations on social-ethical issues in STI developments. His current work focuses on Global aspects of Technology Assessment, Responsible Innovation, Ethics in Science and Technology Policy, as well as Science Diplomacy. (See http://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_ladikas_miltos.php.)

Florian Roth is a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany, focusing on transformation processes in support of socio-technical resilience and innovation. Before joining Fraunhofer ISI in 2019, he was part of the CSS Risk & Resilience Team at ETH Zurich.

Pieter van Boheemen is a Digital Society researcher at the Rathenau Instituut. He is one of the authors of the reports “Cyber resilience with New Technology” (2020), “Digitalisation of the News” (2018), and the forth-coming report “Disinformation and New Technology” (2020).

Lilly Lim-Camacho is Research Group Leader of Climate Smart Agriculture at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. She is a value chain scientist focused on supporting industry in an era of global change, through applied systems approaches. Her expertise is in value chain management and analysis, which she applies in a range of challenges including climate adaptation, sustainable development and social inclusion. Lilly utilizes strong science communication and engagement techniques in her research, working with a wide range of stakeholders both in the public and private sectors. She is currently involved in a range of national and international projects aimed at harnessing value chain analytics to build sustainable, resilient and competitive global value chains.

Mie Thomsen (Msc in Natural Resource Management) is Project Manager at the Danish Board of Technology with experience in climate adaptation, long-term planning, process development and risk management of flooding from the sea and watercourses. She has developed vulnerability, risk and damage analysis and mapping in GIS under the Floods Directive and has experience with capacity building and mapping resilience in local communities and municipalities with a focus on citizen and decision maker involvement. She is currently involved in the project on the national debate about coastal cities and rising sea levels and projects on developing DAPP maps for Danish municipalities and developing future scenarios for cities coping with rising sea level.