Coordination: Matthias Kaiser (UiB) and Mario Giampietro (UAB)
Provisional working group: Lapologang Magole (UB), Elaine Fouche (SU), John van Breda (SU), Silvio Funtowicz (UiB), Gonzalo Gamboa (UAB), Zora Kovacic (UAB)
Contents: Quality check on the process of production and use of quantitative information for governance; Improve the relevance, plausibility and usefulness of narratives, models and indicators in relation to a specific problem and specific social actors; Governance for sustainability; Participatory processes.
- Member: Elaine Fouche
- Member: Silvio Funtowicz
- Member: Gonzalo Gamboa
- Member: Mario Giampietro
- Member: Matthias Kaiser
- Member: Zora Kovacic
- Member: Lapologang Magole
- Member: John van Breda
Coordination: Jannie Hofmeyr (SU) and Mario Giampietro (UAB)
Provisional working group: Josephine Musango (SU), Cheddi Kiravu (UB)
Contents: The implications of complexity for quantitative science: challenges for modeling, exploring viability domains, studying trajectories of development, agent based modeling, system dynamics, analysis of stability, resilience.
- Member: Mario Giampietro
- Member: Jannie Hofmeyr
- Member: Cheddi Kiravu
- Member: Josephine Musango
Coordination: François Diaz-Maurin (UAB)
Provisional working group: Cheddi Kiravu (UB), Gideon Gope (PoN), Alan Brent (SU), Mario Giampietro (UAB)
Contents: How to integrate an analysis of the feasibility, viability and desirability of the metabolic pattern integrating different dimensions – energy, food, water, land uses - across different scales; MuSIASEM approach (Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism) using a prototype analysis of a country and a village; Use of the Environmental Impact Matrix for the analysis of feasibility/external constraints; Use of the Multi-Level End Uses Matrix for the analysis of viability/internal constraints.
- Member: Alan Brent
- Member: François Diaz-Maurin
- Member: Mario Giampietro
- Member: Gideon Gope
- Member: Cheddi Kiravu
Coordination: Felipe Yunta (UAM)
Provisional working group: Lapologang Magole (UB), Kelebogile Mfundisi (UB), Edwin Mosimanyana (UB), Maduako Okorie (PoN), José Antonio Rodríguez Esteban (UAM)
Contents: Use of remote sensing and GIS tools for environmental accounting; Definition and use of the Environmental Impact Matrix; Participatory Mapping. Practical case studies will be used to illustrate the applications of the approach.
- Member: Lapologang Magole
- Member: Kelebogile Mfundisi
- Member: Edwin Mosimanyana
- Member: Maduako Okorie
- Member: José Antonio Rodríguez Esteban
- Member: Felipe Yunta
Coordination: Antonio Vázquez (UAM), Zora Kovacic (UAB), PoN, UB and/or SU teams
Provisional working group: Kasnath Kavezeri (PoN), Andrew Obokopok (UB), Roberto Nello (UAM), Mario Giampietro (UAB), Gonzalo Gamboa (UAB)
Contents: social, economic and political dimensions of endogenous development, role of innovation, institutional analysis, local production and international markets.
- Member: Gonzalo Gamboa
- Member: Mario Giampietro
- Member: Kasnath Kavezeri
- Member: Zora Kovacic
- Member: Roberto Nello
- Member: Andrew Obokopok
- Member: Antonio Vázquez
Coordination: Ulpiano Ruiz-Rivas (UC3M)
Provisional working group: Alan Brent (SU), Candidus Tomeka (PoN), Kelebaone Tsamaase (UB), Andrew Obokopok (UB), Miriam Bueno Lorenzo (UC3M), Jorge Martinez Crespo (UC3M), Carolina Marugán-Cruz (UC3M), Marco Raugei (UPF), François Diaz-Maurin (UAB)
Contents: Using basic knowledge to extract from available characteristics of relevant technologies some key parameters for energy assessment, and be able to discuss critically their reliability and application.
An optional Module '6bis' may have to be added if a general introduction to energy systems is not available in the host University.
- Member: Carolina Marugán-Cruz
- Member: Andrew Obokopok
- Member: Ulpiano Ruiz-Rivas
- Member: Candidus Tomeka
- Member: Kelebaone Tsamaase
Coordination: Mario Giampietro (UAB)
Working group: All Participia consortium members
Contents: Societal Multi-Criteria Evaluation; Guided examples of how to put the tools together
Working group: All Participia consortium members
Contents: Case study or Research project to be agreed upon by student and supervisor.