ECTN-lezing

Op donderdag 13 april begint het European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) congres op Science Park. Dit exclusieve congres biedt voor het begint een lezing aan voor studenten van 17 tot 18 uur in C0.110. Deze lezing wordt gegeven door Peter Mahaffy, scheikunde professor aan The King’s University in Edmonton, Canada en Director van King’s Centre for Visualization in Science.
De titel van de lezing is “Chemistry’s Contributions to the Sustainability Landscape: Why our Planet Needs Systems Thinking Chemists, Educators, and Citizens”. Verdere informatie vind je hieronder. De lezing is open voor iedereen.

Chemistry’s Contributions to the Sustainability Landscape: Why our Planet Needs Systems Thinking Chemists, Educators, and Citizens

Chemistry, the science of transformation of matter, has a central role to play in building a sustainable future for our planet. This includes addressing the unintended sustainability challenges that arise from the large-scale material transformation by humans over the past fifty years. What contributions are chemistry and chemistry education making toward sustainability goals, and in what new ways can chemistry educators begin with the molecular basis of sustainability and integrate sustainability orientations, tools and frameworks into teaching and learning? We take a systems approach to this question and draw on the chemistry of refrigerants and reactive nitrogen to illustrate how our profession can transform itself through systems thinking to better contribute at multiple levels toward the emergence of sustainability of the Earth system. We will also explore an interactive learning tool recently released by our King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (kcvs.ca) in collaboration with an IUPAC project, that uses the Planetary Boundaries framework (Stockholm Resilience Centre) to connect fundamental chemistry concepts and measurements to sustainability challenges and opportunities.