About the Lecturers
Prof. György Pataki
has an MSc in Economics and a PhD in Management and Organization Science from Faculty of Business Administration, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (now called Corvinus University of Budapest). He recently spent six month as a visiting researcher at the Department of Management and Organization, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, where he has been working on the social theory of corporate greening. In addition, he is experimenting to apply participatory action research techniques, particularly in the context of bottom-up sustainable rural development, in Hungary. He is also committed to the perspective of ecological economics and doing research on biodiversity issues, including social and cultural value of ecosystem services. As a university lecturer he frequently applies problem- and project based learning and teaching techniques that push students and teachers in a less structured and more cooperative learning context. As a concerned citizen, he is also involved with actions of NGOs in Hungary, particularly with Protect the Future, a civil political organization.
Pataki: Participatory Biodiversity Management (pdf)
Dr. Giuseppe Munda
Associate Professor of Economics of Natural Resources at the University Autonoma of Barcelona. He got his PhD in Economics and Econometrics at the Free University of Amsterdam with Peter Neijkamp (the “guru” of Multi-Criteria Analysis). He published a book multi-criteria evaluation in a fuzzy environment and he is preparing a second one on societal processes of multi-criteria evaluation. He developed the software called NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment And Decision Environment), which has been used in several projects together with information communication technology and integrated packages of models to develop procedures of participatory integrated assessment.
Munda: Social Multicriteria Evaluation (pdf)
Prof. Serafin Corral Quintana
has a PhD on Applied Economics by the Univ. of La Laguna, Tenerife. He is currently professor at the Dpt. of Economics of Institutions, Statistics and Econometrics at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife. His main areas of research are Quality Assurance Methodologies and Processes, and the framing and evaluation of environmental policy processes. Lately he is interested in the design of e-inclusion processes through the integration of e-learning and e-participation approaches. He has coordinated and participated in some European projects in which scientific issues have been embedded in social learning processes deploying Information and Communication Technologies, namely multi-media applications (RE-FORMA project, GOUVERNe project, VIRTU@LIS and the VISIONS project). European research projects dealing with water management problems, such as The VALSE project and ADVISOR.
A Quality Assurance Framework for D-M processes (pdf)
A Quality Assurance Framework for Policy-making (pdf)
Dr. Matthieu Craye
is a scientific officer at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy). He has a background in both engineering and philosophy of science and technology and worked on subjects as the role of scientific expertise in the governance of environmental risk and conflicts between scientific and public perspectives on (environmental) risk. His current research focuses on uncertainty in policy related knowledge and includes case studies, methodological development and the study of institutional responses to uncertainty.
Craye: Qualitative uncertainty assessment, using pedigree-based tools (pdf)
Dr. Andrea Saltelli
is an applied statistician, with a steady flow of publications in disciplinary journals over the last 30 years, on topics from Chemistry to Environmental Sciences to Applied Statistics and Econometrics. He focused on sensitivity analysis, trying to foster the use of quantitative methods in all settings where mathematical or computational models are used. Presently leads the Econometric and Applied Statistics Unit of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra. The Unit, with a staff of 22, develops econometric and statistic applications, mostly in support to the Services of the European Commission, for macroeconomic modelling, business cycle analysis, and various indicators, such as output gap, internal market, knowledge economy and others. The Unit is also active on financial econometrics in support to the single market initiatives, and for indicators for education and training.
Saltelli: The critique of modeling and sensitivity analysis (pdf)
Dr. Gilberto Gallopín
Gilberto Carlos Gallopin is Argentinean and Italian; Ecological Systems Analyst and Sustainable Development expert. Areas in which he has worked: ecological systems analysis, food chain and niche theory, global modeling, environmental modelling, environmental impact assessment, environmental and land use prospective, environment and development nexus, environment and quality of life, impoverishment and sustainable development, scenario analysis, policy dialogues, and science for sustainable development. He published more than 100 papers in these areas.
Gallopin: Anatomy of scenarios (pdf)
Three global water scenarios (pdf)
Branch Points: Global Scenarios and Human Choice (pdf)
Global Scenarios: Background Review for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (pdf)
Scenarios as tools for international environmental assessments (pdf)
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (pdf)
Dr. Ângela Guimarães Pereira
was born in Mozambique in 1966, daughter of a sociologist and an engineer. She studied Environmental Engineering in the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, Acoustic Studies in the University of Southampton and got a PhD in Environmental Impact Assessment with the same Portuguese university. In 1996 she started working at the Joint Research Centre in European projects about environmental and societal issues – including water resources governance, sustainability and climate change issues. At the JRC she leads the Knowledge Assessment Methodologies group, which was established in 1999, being responsible for science & society interfaces that spans across knowledge quality assurance methodologies to social research and deployment of new information technologies for new governance in Europe – http://kam.jrc.it. She has organised in 2003 the workshop on “Interfaces between Science & Society” held in Milano from which a book was published in 2006 by GREENLEAF Pub.
Pereira: Public Participation Methods (pdf)
Pereira: Science Communication (pdf)
Eng. Tiago De Sousa Pedrosa
graduated in Environmental Engineering from the New University of Lisbon. He has developed several information and communications technologies related to climate change and fisheries (e.g. VGAS and fishualis Personal Barometer). He has participated in several European research projects such as VIRTUALIS project (Social Learning on EnVIRonmental Issues with the InTeractive Information and CommUnication TechnoLIeS), SustainabilityA-test project (dealing with sustainable development assessment tools) and ACCENT Network (Atmospheric Composition Change, the European Network of Excellence dealing with communication of science to policy and the general public). His current research focuses the development of quality-assured ICTs and quality assurance protocols to support participatory processes.
Pedrosa: Communication in Policy contexts (pdf)