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{{Event
  |acronym=53th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - Brisbane 2009
  |image=2009_isss.png
  |project=ISSS Conference
  |place=The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
  |dates=July 12-17, 2009 
  |moderator=[[The School of Integrative Systems]] and [[ANZSYS]]
  |participants_type=Researchers, ISSS Members
  |participants_num=
  |total_duration=5 days
  |link=[[https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings53rd/article/view/1308/467 | ISSS Journal archives]]
}}

===Sunday===
* [[Professor Len Troncale]] - The System of Systems Processes Theory (SoSP) – A Workshop on How Systems Work (or Don’t Work)
* [[Dr John Kineman and Judith Rosen]] - Relational Theory Workshop – Fundamentals of Relational Theory Part II
* [[Alexander and Kathia Laszlo]] - Welcome Cocktail Reception by The University of Queensland Vice Chancellor and Traditional Welcome

===Monday===
* [[Professor Ockie Bosch]] - Setting the Scene: Unremarkable, Liveable, Sustainable Systems
* [[ISSS President, Professor Tim Allen]] - The positive attractor: the role of the holistic worldview in the evolution of a sustainable societal system
* [[Graeme Taylor]] - Analysing Liveability – More than Constructive Ambiguity
* [[Dr Jacqui de Chazal]] - Liveability as a constraint on sustainability or sustainability as a constraint on liveability? Defining terms and mapping relationships to separate scaled hard constraints from soft preferences
* [[Professor Martin Burd]] - Hunting, gathering, investing, globalizing: the evolutionary roots of economic behaviour
* [[Professor Richard Bawden]] - Inclusive well-being: a systemic view of development

===Monday Sessions===
* **Session 1 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 207) - Cybernetics and VSM**
  * [[Allenna Leonard]] - A Sociocybernetic Model of Liveable and Sustainable Social Systems
  * [[Stephens J]] - The Application of Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model to Strategic Planning
  * [[Tejeida-Padilla]] - In Search of a Viable System Model for After-Sales Spare Parts Service in Telecom Firms

* **Session 2 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 211) - Critical Systems Theory and Practice**
  * [[Dean]] - Expense Accounts, MPs and Accountability in the British Parliament: An Autopoietic Perspective
  * [[Foote]] - Systemic Evaluation of Community Environmental Management Programmes
  * [[Smith, T]] - Using Critical Systems Thinking to Help Development Practitioners Foster Sustainable and Liveable Communities

* **Session 3 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 213) - Socio-Ecological Systems**
  * [[Painter]] - Sustainable Water Allocation for Families, Fish and Farming: a Wicked Problem Or a Wicked Solution?
  * [[Eriyatno]] - Model of Regional Policy Strategy in Sustainability Irrigation Management
  * [[Ross]] - A Systems Framework for Integrated Water Resource Management

* **Session 4 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 214) - Designing Educational Systems**
  * [[Love]] - Using Variety Analyses to Improve Educational Sustainability and Liveability
  * [[Nguyen]] - Capacity Building for Learning Laboratory for Sustainability: the Case of Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve (Viet Nam)

* **Session 5 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 215) - Organizational Transformation and Social Change**
  * [[Harel]] - Livability and Sustainability Are They Contradictory? A Social Organizational Perspective on Participatory Action Research Oriented Response
  * [[Taylor]] - Systems Thinking: The Key to Survival
  * [[Dos Santos Martins]] - Sustainable Development Requires An Integrating Discipline to Address Its Unique Problems - Design Thinking

* **Open Room (Able Smith Building Room 1)**
  * Various Workshops

===Monday Evening===
* [[James Simms]] - ISSS Board Meeting
* [[Len Troncale]] - Making the Soft Sciences Hard and Making Systems Science Relevant
* [[Tuesday July 14 2009]]
* Progressive Plenary Session Facilitated by Alexander and Kathia Laszlo
  * Brisbane River - A Voice for Waterways: An integrated approach to managing catchments and waterways in Australia’s fastest-growing region (UQ Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield)
  * Mt-Cootha Botanical Gardens - Peri-urban Food systems (Martha Sheppard)
  * Queensland State Planning & Infrastructure, Brisbane CBD - Infrastructure for a fast-growing State (John Larcombe)
* [[Alexander and Kathia Laszlo]] - Closing Remarks and next steps

===Tuesday===
* [[Assoc. Professor Bob Cavana]] - People First: How to make environmental sustainability something we want to live with.
* [[The Hon. Steve Maharey]] - Contemporary Government Challenges: Delivering performance and accountability' and the intersections with 'wicked policy problems
* [[Lynelle Briggs]] - Tea
* [[Prof Ray Ison]] - Café Style Interactive Plenary Session facilitated by ANZSYS (Australian and New Zealand Systems Group): Conversation Mapping coordinated by Prof Ray Ison – examining issues raised by keynote speakers, Panel discussion between the 2 keynote speakers & organizers of conversation mapping workshop, Discussions & Feedback

===Wednesday===
* [[Professor Helen Ross]] - Art & Systems Thinking – Floating Lands Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability: Connectedness
* [[Christine Ballinger & Ben McMullen]] - Getting our act together: a systems change in everyday decision-making
* [[Professors Ockie Bosch & Kambiz Maani]] - Role of Systems Approaches in the sustainable management of Biosphere Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
* [[Michael Williams]] - Role of Systems Thinking in Journalism and media coverage of complex issues
* [[Professor Val Brown]] - Lunch

===Thursday===
* [[Professor Kambiz Maani]] - The role of Systems Approaches in the sustainable management of Biosphere Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
* [[Dr Ishwaran Natajaran]] - Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
* [[Dr Nguyen Van Thanh]] - Role of Systems Thinking in Journalism and media coverage of complex issues
* [[Professor Michael Bromley]] - Lunch
* [[Professor Amareswar Galla]] - Systems Expressed in Everyday Life – Art, People, Tourism, Planning, Management, Journalism, Cultural Heritage Development

This breakdown organizes the information based on the speakers and the subjects discussed during the conference sessions on each day.
[[Category: ISSS Annual Conferences]]