News

Applying transdisciplinary and systems approaches for sustainable weed management

Alberta, Canada, 6-10 June 2016  – A refreshing and dynamic international workshop.

  • Are you enthusiastic about learning from, and working with, people from other disciplines
  • Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your expertise in a new context?
  • Would you like the chance to explore how social science, agricultural and natural systems can come together to work more effectively? 

Then this is the workshop for you! 

We are looking for researchers and managers from a broad range of disciplines and systems to join our next international weeds workshop.  

Our ambitious goal is to make holistic weed management a reality through transdisciplinarity!   
How are we going to make this happen?

  • Bring together a diverse group of enthusiastic researchers and managers with expertise from within and beyond weed and invasive plant management
  • Use a unique format that throws away the sleep-inducing atmosphere of traditional conference venues and programs – there will be no one-way presentations of research results!
  • Provide plenty of time and avenues for deep debate within and across disciplines
  • Focus on a complex weed case study in southern Alberta, which we will visit
  • Build on the lessons learned from the first two highly successful “ANDinA” workshops
  • Give everyone a specific role to play in ensuring the meeting’s success
  • Enable emerging researchers to take leading roles
  • Make time for project conceptualisation, paper and grant preparation
  • Daily walking in the fresh mountain air  

Questions we will consider…

  • How can we simultaneously address the ecological, agronomic, socio-economic and political dimensions of weed and invasive plant management?
  • How can we successfully engage with societal stakeholders to better understand complex weed issues and how to solve them?
  • How can we achieve truly transdisciplinary disciplinary research?
  • Will a transdisciplinary approach provide us with different outcomes to what we have now?  

Interested in knowing more?