SEI-Y Annual Seminar 2013 - 'Does anyone listen?'
SEI-Y's 2013 annual conference will be held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Tuesday the 3rd of December. The event will run from 5.30 to 7.30pm with six speakers on the discussion panel (including YESI director, Sue Hartley)
The six speakers for the panel discussion are: Lisa Emberson (Director, SEI York Centre), Ian Boyd (Defra Chief Science Advisor), Lidia Brito (Director, Division of Science Policy & Sustainable Development,UNESCO), Johan Kuylenstierna (Executive Director, SEI), Sue Hartley (Director,York Environmental Sustainability Institute), Andreas Carlgren (Former Swedish Minister for the Environment).
They will be talking about whether environmental science can deliver the evidence policymakers need...
What are the challenges this presents - for both science and also policy makers?
Is environmental science addressing the questions policy makers need?
What implications have the constrained economic conditions had on science-policy links?