Welcome and introduction to the UFZ & the research group ISAS (Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Societal Systems)
Getting to Know Each Other by a short introduction
In this session, Walther Zeug will give a pitch to explore the core challenge that motivates this workshop: achieving sustainable societal metabolisms within ecological and societal boundaries. Walther will introduce the key problems, conceptual foundations, and proposed research framework. We will then engage in an open discussion to reflect on participants' perspectives, disciplinary backgrounds, and expectations. Together, we will aim to arrive at a shared understanding of the workshop’s goals and define common research aims that will guide our work over the coming days.
This session focuses on assessing the regional and global availability of fossil, biogenic, and socio-economic resources. We will explore current methods, datasets, biophysical and societal limits, and sustainability criteria,and key challenges.
tba, How can footprint methods contribute to determine sustainable (regional) resource availability and use?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session focuses on assessing the regional and global availability of fossil, biogenic, and socio-economic resources. We will explore current methods, datasets, biophysical and societal limits, and sustainability criteria,and key challenges.
tba, How can MFA contribute to determine sustainable (regional) resource availability and use?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session focuses on assessing the regional and global availability of fossil, biogenic, and socio-economic resources. We will explore current methods, datasets, biophysical and societal limits, and sustainability criteria,and key challenges.
Satellites and ground-based monitors can measure pollutants in the air but cannot infer their sources directly; pollutants may have blown downwind or reacted away. Knowledge of emissions comes instead from inventories, which are maps of pollutant sources along with their expected emissions magnitudes, constructed from information such as infrastructure plans and economic reports. Inventories thus link pollution to processes, and processes can be made targets of mitigation efforts. However, inventory construction takes several years and is subject to error. In this talk, I will present methods which fuse observational data with the actionable information of inventories through Bayesian optimization. In particular, I will present open-source software I have developed called CHEEREIO, which simplifies the process of computing emissions using remote sensing data. CHEEREIO’s wide-ranging capabilities have been used by groups internationally to study ethane from oil/gas fields in the Middle East, CO from Canadian wildfires, and methane trends in China — finding for the latter that benefits from closing small coal mines have been offset by growth in livestock emissions. I will comment on the prospects of integrating CHEEREIO and similar methods into mechanisms for democratic economic planning — and particularly in cases where accounting assumptions used for ecological resource planning are incorrect or have changed due to warming-induced emissions.
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session focuses on assessing the regional and global availability of fossil, biogenic, and socio-economic resources. We will explore current methods, datasets, biophysical and societal limits, and sustainability criteria,and key challenges.
The session aims to map relevant methodologies and databases for understanding current production systems and dynamics and explore alternative technological and organizational pathways.
tba, Which economic system models of production systems and dynamics as well as alternative technological and organizational pathways are there?
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Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
The session aims to map relevant methodologies and databases for understanding current production systems and dynamics and explore alternative technological and organizational pathways.
tba, Holistic and Integrated Sustainability Assessment and Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
The session aims to map relevant methodologies and databases for understanding current production systems and dynamics and explore alternative technological and organizational pathways.
tba, Which methodologies and databases help us understanding current production systems and dynamics of societal metabolisms?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
The session aims to map relevant methodologies and databases for understanding current production systems and dynamics and explore alternative technological and organizational pathways.
Wrapping up and conclusions
This module investigates how societal needs are met through individual and productive consumption, including the role of care and infrastructure. Participants will share insights on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications, contributing to a multidimensional view of sustainable consumption systems.
tba, What is and how to measure human wellbeing by which data and which implications are there on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns and justice implications?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This module investigates how societal needs are met through individual and productive consumption, including the role of care and infrastructure. Participants will share insights on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications, contributing to a multidimensional view of sustainable consumption systems.
tba, What are decent living standards within planetary boundaries and which implications are there for consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This module investigates how societal needs are met through individual and productive consumption, including the role of care and infrastructure. Participants will share insights on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications, contributing to a multidimensional view of sustainable consumption systems.
tba, How can economic, spatial and sectoral distributions of impact be measured and which implications are there on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications?.
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This module investigates how societal needs are met through individual and productive consumption, including the role of care and infrastructure. Participants will share insights on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications, contributing to a multidimensional view of sustainable consumption systems.
This session addresses the political and social dimensions of transformations. We will discuss governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions.
tba, What are possbile governmentalities of transformations and their implications on science-policy interfaces, communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session addresses the political and social dimensions of transformations. We will discuss governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions.
tba, Why is the decarbonization of current states limited and which implications are there for governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session addresses the political and social dimensions of transformations. We will discuss governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions.
tba, What are implications from the political economy of planning on governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?
This session addresses the political and social dimensions of transformations. We will discuss governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions.
tba, Which concepts of labour and care are there in debates on just transitions and which impications do they have on governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
This session addresses the political and social dimensions of transformations. We will discuss governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions.
Actually this day is a regional holiday and we are ordering pizza
We explore the role of data science, AI, and big data in supporting integrated socio-ecological modeling. The session will cover data availability, methodological innovations, and computational tools for enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
tba, How and which data science can help us enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration?
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Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
We explore the role of data science, AI, and big data in supporting integrated socio-ecological modeling. The session will cover data availability, methodological innovations, and computational tools for enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
tba, How can agent based modelling contribute to enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration?
Please edit the title and abstract by November 20th 2025.
Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min
If possible, please upload your presentation and up to two relevant relating research papers.
We explore the role of data science, AI, and big data in supporting integrated socio-ecological modeling. The session will cover data availability, methodological innovations, and computational tools for enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
This concluding session synthesizes insights from all module discussions and aligns them toward a shared research framework. We will identify opportunities for joint projects, collaborative publications, and funding initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, strategic partnerships, and concrete next steps to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable societal metabolisms beyond the workshop.
Wrapping up and conclusions
This concluding session synthesizes insights from all module discussions and aligns them toward a shared research framework. We will identify opportunities for joint projects, collaborative publications, and funding initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, strategic partnerships, and concrete next steps to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable societal metabolisms beyond the workshop.
This concluding session synthesizes insights from all module discussions and aligns them toward a shared research framework. We will identify opportunities for joint projects, collaborative publications, and funding initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, strategic partnerships, and concrete next steps to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable societal metabolisms beyond the workshop.
This concluding session synthesizes insights from all module discussions and aligns them toward a shared research framework. We will identify opportunities for joint projects, collaborative publications, and funding initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, strategic partnerships, and concrete next steps to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable societal metabolisms beyond the workshop.
This concluding session synthesizes insights from all module discussions and aligns them toward a shared research framework. We will identify opportunities for joint projects, collaborative publications, and funding initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, strategic partnerships, and concrete next steps to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable societal metabolisms beyond the workshop.
Wrapping up and conclusions