Requirements for systems research in agricultural and environmental sciences

This workshop will create a space for discussion on environmental politics and its impact on design for sustainable transitions. It will help participants identify different sustainability discourses; create a space for reflection on how these discourses influence design practice; and consider the environmental and social implications of different discourses. The workshop will do this work by encouraging knowledge sharing, reflection and interpretative mapping in a participatory space where individuals will create their own discourse maps. This work is informed by my research “Mapping Climate Communication” conducted at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) in the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the University of Colorado, Boulder. With this research project I developed a discourse mapping method based on the discourse analysis method of political scientists and sustainability scholars. Using my own work as an example, I will facilitate a process that will enable participants to create new discourse maps reflecting their own ideas and agendas.

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Hybrid Lighting Complex for Combined Lighting Systems Research Into Optical Path Optimization Using the Complex "Solar Led-S" New Modification

Light & Engineering ◽

10.33383/2018-042 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 122-129

Author(s):

Alexander T. Ovcharov ◽

Yuri N. Selyanin ◽

Yaroslav V. Antsupov

Keyword(s):

Light Transmission ◽

Optical Path ◽

Artificial Light ◽

Solar Panels ◽

Shopping Centre ◽

Systems Research ◽

Lower Stage ◽

Input Structure ◽

Lighting Systems ◽

Two Stages

A new concept of the architecture of hybrid lighting systems for installations of combined lighting is considered. The cascade principle of constructing the optical path of such complexes is described, in which the design contains two stages of the cascade: the upper and lower stages. The upper (input) structure is made on the basis of the corresponding modification of the hollow tube “Solatube®” (daylight), and the lower one, based on the “Solatube®” fibre of a larger diameter, is combined with LED artificial light block and is designed to transmit mixed light (daylight and artificial light). The results of studies on the efficiency of light transmission made it possible to optimize the solution of the new modification of the hybrid lighting complex “Solar LED”, lower stage of the cascade, and to develop the nomenclature of the production line “S”. The description of the first experience of using this complex in the pilot combined illumination system of the “meeting room” in the shopping centre “IKEA Belaya Dacha” headquarters is given. A completely autonomous power supply system for a lighting installation based on solar panels has been implemented.

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Farmers' needs for management, research and extension, and policy - findings of a farmers' workshop and their implications

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association ◽

10.33584/jnzg.1992.54.2021 ◽

1992 ◽

pp. 7-10

Author(s):

A.F. Mcrae

Keyword(s):

Technology Transfer ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Management Research ◽

Business Objectives ◽

Research Technology ◽

Systems Research ◽

Farming Systems Research

Farmers' objectives, their circumstances and the constraints they face are central to any consideration of ways and means of improving farming systems. The management, research and extension, and policy needs of the farmers attending this workshop were diverse. This appeared to be linked with the (unexpected) degree of diversity in the business objectives and management structures on these farms. More formal research on these issues across the spectrum of farmers is required to ensure that research and technology transfer meet the industry's needs. Keywords farming systems, research, technology transfer, objectives

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