The agenda of the Floriade Dialogue in 2012 is aimed at deepening the previously discussed themes in 2009 - 2011.
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Topics covered between 2009 and 2012 were: visions on urban structures, natural balanced water use, urban ecological engineering, water efficiency, innovation in food production and efficiency in global agro food production and logistics. All of these session were mainly focused on the connection between vision, central science and practice. The emphasis in 2012, largely in all sessions will be to influence the process of social change needed to deal with the limitation of natural resources that global society will face in the coming years. An impetus to achieve intentions, collaborative arrangements and a multidisciplinary approach that will give context to future plans towards 2020-2030. To conclude, the 2012 edition will deliver a grid for the ultimate form of a self-supporting city The result of a dialogue that received contributions of an impressive network of specialists from both policy, scientific and economic perspective. Below is the agenda of the Dialogue Floriade in 2012:
Influencing behavior & change – responsible use of resources
Floriade Dialogue #5, Monday April 23rd 2012 (wk 17)
This session shows market and government initiatives to let people capture the full value of efficiency of resource use by promoting social debates and social support. Support demonstration and provide role models to induce a shift. Role modeling of the desired behavior shift can be a powerful mechanism to induce change. Even as reinforcement of change through incentives and formal mechanisms. And will incentives be activated at a local or global level? The general question for this Dialogue session should give a way to Influence people’s and business’s mindset, responsibility, use and waste map.
Institutional transformation –transition for highest value of recources
Floriade Dialogue #6, Thursday May 10th 2012 (wk 19)
The potential of new ways to produce with positive impact on resource(s) could create significant new opportunities for economies and businesses. But how do governments and businesses build capacity and create institutional transformation for resource productivity and industrial waste cycles. Incentives for greater efficiency in the use of resources and natural assets: enhancing productivity, reducing waste and energy consumption and making resources available to highest value use.
Improving productivity & logistics - efficient food production
Floriade Dialogue #7, Wednesday June 20th 2012 (wk 25)
Technological advances matter in efficient food production. Not only production but also logistics efficiency, planning and the contradistinction between global and local production. There is an opportunity to achieve a resource productivity revolution but it will not be an easy one. What agreements are needed to improve production and optimize the agro supply chain? What behavioral changes are necessary in road transport & air travel to improve planning & logistics, urban densification and positive impact on environmental issues?
Food Sufficiency & Quality - revolution of sustainable approaches
Floriade Dialogue #8, Thursday July 5th 2012 (wk 27)
Sufficiency should be considered a major economic issue looking at the opportunities for innovation and an upcoming revolution of sustainable approaches. Besides the strategies discussed on improved productivity & logistics this session combines this with advanced technologies for Life & Food Quality. Technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specializations and new, often interdisciplinary, fields: biotechnology, food, health & plant science and last but not least population dynamics are all interrelated.
The Role of the Self Supporting City
Floriade Dialogue #9 Final, Monday September 3rd 2012 (wk 36)
The role of cities and the decisions governments make in the urban setting will be hugely important. Any future investment in infrastructure, smart grids and public networks such as recycling can have a critical impact on the economic health and productivity of the world's cities. The self supporting city will be crucial to shape attitudes toward the use of resources among the next billion urbanites and will potentially have a large impact on their resource footprints.
