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GLOBAL-CHANGE / Geo-Eco-Dynamics  

We just revisited the Global Change exhibition from 1990 in view of the cellebration of 20 years environmental administrations in Berlin (kick-off April 28, 2010) and the planned 20years of the GLOBAL CHANGE exhibition May 30, 1990 - 2010. See here the 1990 exhibition (50 slides) and the opening two posters introducing and translating GLOBAL CHANGE from 1990 to 2010 and 2030. UPDATED April 2010. pls see: http://benking.de/futures/Poster-Global-Change-1990.pdf

The timeline below needs updating a.s.a.p.:

RIO+10  links:           GLOBAL CHANGE  -  an  "Integral Agenda"

AKTUELL: WOCHE DER ZUKUNFTSFÄHIGKEIT
FUTURE AGENDAS  post RIO - JoBURG Sept: 2002:
gemeinsamer Schreibraum (WIKIWIKI): "UM DENKEN_SCHWENKEN" - WHAT CAN BE DONE  (GERMAN & ENGLISH) Berlin Sept 2002
see also GLOBAL ETHICS FOR HUMNANE WORLD and ETHICS SUMMIT and CULTURE OF PEACE 1995
RIO+10 BERLINsee also INTEGRAL AGENDA ball.
Press-release "THINK GLOBAL: aktuelle PK

1988 -1989

1984-87 
1988 
 
 

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2001

 THE CREDIBILITY OF ECOLOGY, Trilogy: GeoJournal 17.1 (1988) 3rd volume Enhancing the Credibility of Ecology Authors:  Castri di, F. , Hadley, M.  Please see your library or check with KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 
GLOBAL CHANGE 1988  GeoJournal 20, 2;1990 (Febr)

Geo-Eco-Dynamics Large Scale Biomonitoring for Renaturation, Journal for Geo-ecology&morphology

see also work in progress: re: "credibility of ecology IV"  (working title) revisited" (H.Benking, et al.) 
re. and see: Interacting and sharing/caring "ALONG AND ACROSS HIERARCHICAL SCALES" as "exercised under the title: "OPEN FORUM - ACTION & BELONGING & RESPONSIBILITY IN NATURAL & LIVING SYSTEMS" at Betalanffy's 100. in Vienna 11/2001
and how it was presnted with the Club of Budapest event 4 "Eduaction for planetary consciousness", and UNESCO in 1995 and 1996 as "me/we/other models" and "Feel and Share being part of Life and Nature" - AND how this connects to 2001 presentations re:  "Concreteness" ( ""GTSC"" - THEORY OF SYSTEMS&CONGRUENCE (sik)) and this  INTEGRAL AGENDA collection in view of the RIO+10 and "MILLENNIUM" MEA Process and the MILLENNIUM (AC/UNU) Future Matrix, and the MILLENNIUM SUMMIT long view scenarios in "Global Challenges For Humanity" - ALL THIS in view of some positive and well considered alternatives to CALDWELL's APLS question:  "Is Humanity destined...?" with outlook to ongoing projects like the Virtual United Nations Project and the MP CoLab worknet.
1989 TOPOGRAMM see also: GEOÖKODYNAMIK 10 1/3 (1989) Large Scale Biomonitoring (Benking/Lessing)
1989 Umweltschutz mit Adlerblick - Die fliegende Lupe, Bild der Wissenschaft see Reality/Virtuality of Mountrains (2002)
1989-92 INFORMATION ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION -    META _ DATA  1989-92
1990

GLOBAL CHANGE    Exhibition, German Chancellery 1990 docu 50 pages NEW !! May 2010
Opening Press Conference - in the GERMAN CHANCELLERY (Seiters)
GLOBAL CHANGE    (system earth posters)  PLEASE CHECK HERE - as I feel this work needs to be continued / developed further ! into: SPATIAL versus SPACIAL   summary article from 2001 in KnowMap
1991 HARMONIZATION  GeoJournal 23.3 249-255  1991 (Mar)
RIO PREPARATORY Symposium    DRÄGER FOUNDATION MALENTE    -   Statements - Outcomes .... * 
1991 LOCAL and GLOBAL CHANGE  exhibition, Geotechnica '91
1991 THE ETHICAL AND HISTORICAL DIMENSION and CONTRIBUTIONS TO IT, Poster exhibition opening of the Geotechnica '91 exhibition, Alfred - Wegener Foundation, Bonn
1992 ACCESS AND ASSIMILATION - Pivotal Environmental Information Challenges - Linking, Archiving, and Exploiting Multi-Lingual and Multi-Scale Environmental Information Repositories GeoJournal 26.3 1992 (March)
1992 ISY International Space Year,  Opening at  JPL Pasadena 1992, later Atalanta, Munich, Camberra, Washington,...
GeoJournal report  ISY events
1992 INTEGRAL AGENDA   and   SHADOWY ROUND TABLE   see UIA Brussels
CONTENDING GLOBALLY and CONFIGURING LOCALLY
(inter-sectoral Dialogue - UNCED Center for Our Common Furure May 1992
and Transformative Approaches Project   and Global Strategie Project  see also T. JUDGE, UIA
1992 ERDSICHT Exhibition Bonn - opening of the KAH Bonn.
1992 Bridges and a Masterplan for Islands of Data in a Labyrinth of  Environmental and Economic Information:  The HEMIS Design-Proposal as a Subset and Extention of Retrieval and Information Management Systems,
ICSU CODATA 1992, Beijing, China
IHDP GRAZ    and   elsewhere... 
1993 PROPOSIONG A CONCEPTUAL SUPERSTRUCTURE   NAS-NRC, Washington (authors: Benking, Judge, Uhlir) 1993
1994 COMMON FRMAMES OF REFERENCE - post Rio FIG XX recommendations with/for  Noel BROWN, UNEP-RONA, Melbourne 1994  -  summarizing the outcomes of the RIO Process !! please jump to NOEL BROWN
1994 A Conceptual Superstructure of Knowledge -  Quality and Content in Organisation, Management and Awareness    ( SPACE-SCAPES and NESTED ORDER SYSTEMS for data management ICSU CODATA 1994, Chambery France

Ecosystem Health and Medicine, Integrating Science, Policy, and Management, Proposing a Conceptual Superstructure, and 2 other papers; Ottawa, June 19-23, 1994
1995 INTERNATIONAL CORNER   at  UN Climate Summit , Berlin 1995
EARTH IN TROUBLE (hand-out)
CAPACITY TO GOVERN 1995 with Yehezkel Dror, Club of Rome governance "points to keep in mind"
INTERNATIONAL CORNER DIALOGUE documentation * in progress - see also http://open-forum.de
Bäume für das Klima - Rettungsprogramm Erde,... Aktionen 1.- 5. April 1995 (more) *
1995 GLOBAL CHANGE - Ausstellung im FAW, Ulm  -  siehe  Newsletter  -  more soon *
GLOBAL STABILITY  - ROBUST   PATHS     WFSF Nairobi,....Expo 2000 preps, INFO SOCIETY - WORK .... 
1994 World BANK outlook ICT - NEW STUDY announement  WHAT IS GOING ON IN ICT ?
1995 INFORMATION SOCIETY -TURNING POINT 2000 - GLOBAL-COMMONS
1995 FID 1895 -1995  KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION: TOWARD THE 21st CENTURY contribution revisited: 
IN PROGRESS (see above): "credibility of ecology revisited" (H.Benking, et al.) *
1999 WORLD OF NGO'S recommendations, Vienna 1999  details:
2000 CIVIL-Society EXPO 2000  Network of world-wide projects  re.: UNITY AND DIVERSITY   see also: expo dialogue exercises in town and on the FUTURE RAFT: and UNITY IN DIVERSITY 2001 
1999- 
2000		 Is Humanity Destined to Self-Destruct?   (LYNTON CALDWELL) invited comment:
Show or Schau  in: APLS's:   POLICY and THE LIFE SCIENCES , show-schau- postscript to bring in material and background
see a more comprehensiveAPLS  PERSPECIVES announcement: Show-Schau follow up:  (psychollages AND cognitive panorama)
year
2000
synopsis		 activities, concerns,... a summary of Benking's activities around Governance, Democracy, Futures, Dialogue, Inter-trans-multi-poly... puting SHOW- vs. SCHAU into perspective
2001 PROPOSAL FOR (IHDP) etc., Berlin workshop Nov 2001: 
WANTED: INTEGRAL AGENDA: Horizontal, vertical, lateral,... Policies
2001 KnowMap  contribution Spacial versus Spatial  ( I-III) August 2001 - review GLOBAL CHANGE MAPPING 1990-2000
2001 US UCAR's "GRAND CHALLENGES TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES"  Sept. 2000  -  revisted 
2001 Contribution to LIFE_ONLINE 2001 for ES2002: RIO 92 - Johannesburg, September 2002 - Challenges and Recommendations
2001 Letter to Lord Desai Sept 17th re:  WE NEED TO SPUR ACTION
2001 Sustainable Information Society - Values and Everyday Life, Sept 27-28,  SIS KOUVOLA, Finland    - Benking: Integral Agenda
2001 XX. GEBSER SOCIETY Symposium: Worldly Expressions of the Integral : Concreteness in Integral Worlds
2001 Dialogue_toward_Unity_in_Diversity   and  Systems and Congruence, (Towards A General Theory of Systems and Congruence? - Spacial and embodied mapping and modeling of Autonmy, Wholeness, and Congruency), Bertalanffy 100. Anniversary Symposium Vienna, , Vienna Nov 1-4 
2002  RIO+10 BERLIN see also INTEGRAL AGENDA ball.
2002 Raum und Virtualität: Potential oder Leere? - Die Bergwelt als Beispiel und Ursprung für den Zugang und die Auseinandersetzung mit "neuen" Welten. IN: "Bridges for a World Divided" - Realität und Virtualität der Berge: Virtuelle Konferenz, see also BILD DER WISSENSCHAFT, see above 1989.
* comming soon  - In Vorbereitung
HERE ARE SOME LINKS AND TEXTS TO BE INCLUDED LATER or with some reference to the global-integral "matters" above:

Is the world in "the right" slow motion? 
see "Humane Information Society"
or what we wrote about speed in 
"ROBUST PATHS"
One of my central concern is how we see, understand and share our views and assumptions and how these pre-analytic visions make us construct our "realities".
In 1995  we wondered:
"which world is in trouble" 
see also our dialoge exercises  or the open-forum.

or accelerated speed, making us feel dizzy.
A "New World" where we can not find orientation and easily get lost in options (see governance) or "pictures".
Please links to the art of governance and the capacity to govern.

please see also:  World of NGO's  recommendations to "worknet" and  network.  GERMAN  GERMAN INTERNET_FIESTA   ENGLISH

ETHICS & ART OF GOVERNANCE - Regierungskunst - Entscheidungen anschaulich und Wirkungen deutlicher machen - Leiden reduzieren. Die Thematik, aufbauend auf Ethik und Verantwortung habe ich kürzlich so zusammengefasst: We looked recently into the issue of   Ethics and how to link (share) personal and cognitive with inter-personal dimensions. See also the   Ethics Summit and presentations from 1995 on the "optics of ethics" and how to present such issues in Situation Rooms or Situation Spaces. AND to round up the matters, how this leads to modern applications like "reference rooms" for the access of global library and museum content or how we use it with kids to see context and patterns of  knowing and interests, to only give two possible examles of possible frames for ordering what we can know or can not know - and how it relates. Als guten Einstieg in solche übergreifenden Fragen empfehle ich die Arbeit von Ralph Siu und die vom Ihm gegründete ISP Internationals Society of Panetics. http://www.panetics.org/und das ISP Speakers Bureau.
 

VIRTUAL UNITED NATIONS PROJECT
http://vun.org/  and   http://open-forum.de/

http://www.stateofthefuture.org/
THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT - 
 
 


Project Sponsors are those who contribute funds:
Alan F. Kay & Hazel Henderson Foundation for Social Innovation (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000); Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI), Atlanta, Georgia (1996-'97, 1997-'98, 1999-2000); Deloitte & Touche LLP, Hermitage, TN (1998, 1999, 2000); Ford Motor Company, Dearbone. Michigan (1996, 1997); Foundation for the Future, Bellevue, Washington (1997-'98, 1999-2000); General Motors, Warren, Michigan (1998, 1999, 2000); Hughes Space and Communications, Los Angeles, California (1997, 1998, 2000);
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri (1996, 1997, 1998); Motorola Corporation, Schaumbers, Illinois (1997); Pioneer Hi-Bred International, West Des Moines, Iowa (1997) Shell International, (Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company), London, United Kingdom (1997);  UNU (1992-'95, 1999-2000); UNDP (1993-1994) UNESCO (1995); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, DC (1992-'93, 1996-'97); U.S. Department of Energy (2000-2001)

Collaborating Institutions:
American Council for the United Nations University, provides institutional home, project coordination, and office.
The Smithsonian Institution, provides scholarly resources primarily in biodiversity
The Futures Group International, provides office space in Washington, D.C.

Current Nodes of the Millennium Project include:
Central Europe (Olomouc, Czech Republic and Bratislava, Slovak Republic), China (Beijing), Egypt (Cairo), India (Madurai), Iran (Tehran), Italy (Rome)
Japan (Tokyo), Latin America (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Russian Federation (Moscow), South Pacific (Lismore & Aspendale, Australia), UK (London)
Nodes not yet formed but currently in discussion: Berlin, Paris,...

The initial meetings for starting the Berlin Node of the MILLENNIUM PROJECT are taking place
"BEFORE  _ DURING  _  AFTER"  this BOELL FORUM -
please ask Heiner Benking if you want to take part or are interested to get details. Please call Berlin +49 (30)   793 2230
or send a message to heiner@benking.de

Initially prepared for:  BOELL FOUNDATION symposium:
"DIE NACHHALTIGE GESTALTUNG der GLOBALISIERUNG"  29.-30. Juni 2001

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