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Joint International Workshop
Co-organized by:
UNU - Environment and Sustainable Development Programme
UNU - Institute of Advanced Studies
RIVM - The National Institute of Public Health and the Environment

Workshop Dates: 13-14 December, 2001

Workshop Location: UNU/IIST Facilities, Macau, SAR China

Please go to the UNU/IIST website for more information on Macau
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Workshop Participants

Workshop Programme
  Thursday, 13 December 2001>
  Plenary Session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
  Prof. Zhou Chaochen, Director UNU-IIST
Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki, Vice Rector UNU
Mr. Fred Langeweg, RIVM
09:30 - 10:00 Description of the workshop objectives, format and activities
10:00 - 11:00





10-min presentations and open discussion
  • Need and ideas for integration - Fred Langeweg
  • Potential applications and target audience - Roland Fuchs
  • Modular integrated assessment - Carlo Jaeger
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30





10-min presentations and open discussion on state of integrated environmental assessment modeling
  • OECD Perspective - Jan Rotmans
  • Developing country perspective - Mohan Munasinghe
  • Asian Perspective - Tsuneyuki Morita
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
  Working Session 1
14:00 - 16:00





 Breakout groups (conceptual issues)
  • challenges in integration of modeling concepts - Chair: Jan Rotmans
  • transdisciplinary scientific priority areas - Chair: Guenther Fischer
  • policy issues relevant to integrated modeling and its output - Chair: Hadi Dowlatabadi
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Plenary summary of working group findings
  Friday, 14 December 2001
  Working Session 2
09:00 - 11:30






 Breakout groups (implementation issues)
  • Scientific research activities - Chair: Joe Alcamo
  • Coordination mechanisms - Chair: Nebojsa Nakicenovic
  • Funding and implementation - Chair: [to be announced]
11:30 - 12:00 Plenary summary of working group findings
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
  Working Session 3
14:00 - 15:00







 Formulation of the Terms of Reference of the Forum and its future activities - Chair: Motoyuki Suzuki
  • Follow-up activities within the Forum
  • Linkage to other institutions and fora
  • Identification of organizational roles
  • A tentative calendar of activities
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
  Closing Session
15:30 - 16:00 Concluding Report of the Workshop - Chair: Zafar Adeel and Tom Kram
16:00 - 16:30 Closing Remarks
Last Updated: 26 July 2002