Cyberseminars
The purpose of cyberseminars is to provide a forum for scientists from the social and natural sciences to debate and discuss cutting edge population-environment research topics.
How to participate in (or leave) a cyberseminar
Lutz et al. 2021. Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 118 (12) e1907351118
Will be available on the start of the seminar
Coming soon |
A webinar to kick off the cyberseminar will take place on 14 March from 10-11:30 US ET.
Organizers: Wolfgang Lutz and Raya Muttarak of the Wittgenstein Centre, Alex de Sherbinin, and Susana Adamo of PERN and CIESIN at Columbia University
This cyberseminar focuses on the Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing with the Wittgenstein Centre, which is an alliance of IIASA, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna). The purpose will be to vet a newly proposed indicator of human wellbeing “Years of Good Life” (counting only years of life above minimum levels of physical and mental health, income, and subjective life satisfaction) which can be calculated for all sub-populations of interest and has been tailor made to serve as criterion variable for assessing sustainable progress in human wellbeing over time in sustainability science. The webinar will also include expert contributions from producers of other wellbeing indices, including the World Happiness Index, the SDG Index, and the Planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index.
How to participate in (or leave) a cyberseminar:
PERN Cyberseminars are conducted using a standard email discussion list.
- To subscribe, send an email to pernseminars+subscribe@ciesin.columbia.edu
- To post, send an email to pernseminars@ciesin.columbia.edu
- To unsubscribe, send an email to pernseminars+unsubscribe@ciesin.columbia.edu
All who are interested in cyberseminar topics are invited to participate and subscription is free. Please adhere to the following standards of conduct when participating.
To ensure that the cyberseminar is successful and that we have a lively intellectual discussion, we would like to ask all the participants to be mindful of a few standards of conduct similar to those you might find in a face-to-face meeting. Please remember :
- Respectful disagreement is fine; impoliteness is not accepted.
- Opinions are welcome; advocacy is not - this is an intellectual debate, please refrain from using this forum for any advocacy purposes.
- Respect other's email space: do not repeat something you have already said and limit yourself to a reasonable number of postings.
With these standards in mind, we look forward to your active participation in the seminar.
If you experience technical difficulties, please contact the coordinators.