Partnerships for Sustainability: Examining the Evidence, A Symposium

The National Academy of Sciences

2100 C Street NW, Lecture Room

Washington, DC

June 18-19, 2008

The U.S. National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability will convene a symposium to examine the multi-stakeholder partnership record in addressing issues associated with sustainability. The symposium will focus on the challenges that the partnerships have addressed, including: involvement of several sectors, action at varying scales, from local to global, a combination of public and private financing, and a complex set of science questions.

The experience of eleven partnerships will help to shape the analysis and discussion. In-depth case studies of these partnerships will be conducted by experts with prior experience in analyzing partnerships involving science and technology issues. They will use a common framework and set of questions to describe and analyze each of the partnerships. A steering group of Roundtable members will organize the symposium program based on its review of preliminary drafts of the review papers, in order to encourage discussion among all participants of issues that cross-cut the review papers.

 To attend this event, please RSVP online at http://sustainability.nationalacademies.org/Partnerships.shtml.