Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES,
RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN
Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for
Address
Sustainable Management of Resources, P.O. Box
9010, 6500 GL NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands
Phone +31 (024) 3652262
Fax +31 (024) 3652263
Web http://www.ru.nl/ucm/english/
E-Mail secr.csmr@science.ru.nl
Category Research and Knowledge
MISSION STATEMENT
At Radboud University Nijmegen the Centre for Sustainable Management of Resources is an education and research centre. It
bridges the gap between the traditional disciplines. It does education and research in the following fields:
• trans-national river and water management
• sustainable development and gender issues
• environmental studies linking different disciplines
Founding year Not indicated.
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
In September 2007, the center hosts an international conference on the following topic: “Religious Studies and Theology
exploring sustainable development: challenges for higher education”.
‘The debate on sustainable development has lately gained momentum with the production of new evidence for rapid climate change,
the earlier Millennium Ecosystems Assessment report, and media presentations such as Bill Clinton’s tour and Al Gore’s movie An
Inconvenient Truth. Whereas this debate has until now focused largely on technical aspects, there is now growing attention for
underlying values, assumptions, opinions, and, ultimately, the deeper religious motivations in our cultures underpinning
environmentally benign or destructive behavior. The relations between these worldviews and their impact on the environment
(positive or negative) are by no means clear and should be debated further. How are those worldviews and the debate about their
supposed effects incorporated in the academic disciplines of religious studies and theology, in their research and education? Do
academic and other higher educational institutions sufficiently equip their students for this debate? In what way do they incorporate
the theme in their research agendas? How can the disciplines of religious studies and theology (of all faiths and denominations)
contribute to the underpinning of social and international policy debates on sustainable development as articulated in, for instance,
the Earth Charter and the Millennium Development Goals?’
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Proceedings of the Seminar will be published on the Seminar website as well as in hard copy.
www.ru.nl/ucm/projecten/duurzaamheid/religiecongres_2007/