| 53th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - Brisbane 2009
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Sunday
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
* 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)
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
Thursday
This breakdown organizes the information based on the speakers and the subjects discussed during the conference sessions on each day.
