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18 February 2005 - 18 February 2005
Washington, D.C., United States
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A symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Organized by Shere Abbott, AAAS International Office, and William C. Clark, Harvard University and the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
Event URL: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/
Challenges of sustainable development cannot be met without significant increases in the creation and use of relevant scientific knowledge and know-how. The talents of both the S&T and the development communities must be deployed to connect advances in understanding with practical solutions to particular problems of environment and development in particular places. Although these communities share common goals for sustainable development, they have different perspectives on how to achieve them. They also have different professional cultures that shape their views of the role that science and innovation can play in the process. This symposium, organized under the auspices of the international Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS) at the 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting which focused on "The Nexus: Where Science Meets Society," opened a dialogue between the S&T community and those engaged in development issues on linking science and technology capacities to the needs of sustainable development. It addressed the difficulties that arise in crossing the scholar-practitioner interface to respond to the challenges of development across three sectors (energy, land use, water), in three countries (China, Brazil, India). Two talks introduced the dilemmas and successes from the two perspectives. A panel of three scientists (selected in a competition mediated by AAAS and the Third World Academy of Sciences) and three practitioners (selected from among the fellows of LEAD International) from the three countries responded to questions provided in advance by the organizers. The final panel -- representatives from aid agencies and foundations -- responded to the discussion about barriers separating knowledge and action and made some remarks about their priorities for action. The dialogue sought to contribute ideas about how these communities can work together, discuss the professional enhancement of science-practitioners for sustainable development, and help launch a new ISTS program on engaging the science community in sustainable development.
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Deep Narayan Pandey, Indian Forest Service
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