WICI Seminar: Trade versus the Environment: Strategic Settlement from a Systems Engineering Perspective - Keith Hipel
Keith Hipel will discuss his experiences using graph theory and conflict analysis to talk about problems in the environment and make some links to complexity theory. The key goal of this research is to employ a Systems Engineering approach to conflict resolution to clearly identify the ubiquitous conflict taking place at the local, national and global levels between the basic values underlying trading agreements and those principles providing the foundations for environmental stewardship. The results of the work suggest some solutions as to how this most basic of disputes can be responsibly resolved.
Speaker Profile
Keith W. Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering and Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of Waterloo. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Vice President of the Canadian Academy of Sciences. His major research interests are the development of conflict resolution, multiple objective decision making and time series analysis techniques from a systems thinking perspective with applications in water resources management, hydrology, environmental engineering and sustainable development. He has received widespread recognition for his research via Fellow designations from six organizations including the Royal Society of Canada.