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Ontology at BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change

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Greta recently began a new position as postdoctoral researcher at BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change in the Leioa, near Bilbao, Spain. As a research center BC3 is entirely focused on the investigation of climate change phenomena providing support and tools for policy-makers. She is part of research line 5. “Integrated Modelling of Coupled Human-Natural… Read more »

RCIS 2022 paper: ontologies for sustainability

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The paper “Conceptual Integration for Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach”, which demonstrates an application of ontological analysis in the sustainability context, has been accepted and presented at the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022). The paper proposes an ontological clarification and a conceptual integration of two social-ecological systems framework elements, social-ecological system… Read more »

Gender gap in STEM: playing Mind the Gap at RCIS 2022

Mind the Gap board game

Our paper “Conceptual Integration for Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach” has been accepted and presented at the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) which was held in Barcelona (Spain). During the conference were discussed several important topics, including gender equality within the field. For example, Prof. Dr. Florence Sèdes from… Read more »

Sustainability and the Web

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The kind of work that we are doing, investigating sustainability issues, needs to be supported both conceptually and materially, so we (are trying to) host our web content using as close 100% renewable energy as possible. This is on the face of it easily accomplished, and not too expensive simply by choosing so-called ‘green hosting’…. Read more »