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City planners, architects, international scholars, environmentalists and citizens will discuss and shape the outcomes of green urbanism in a two-day international Green Oslo Conference in June 2010.

Green Oslo and Beyond Green Oslo and Beyond: Investigating the Origins and Shaping the Outcomes of Green Urbanism, is the title of the conference hosted by the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), the Norwegian School of Management, the University of Oslo, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, the Norwegian Research Council, and the Oslo City Council.The Green Oslo project is organised by the members of the NIES Oslo Committee (Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies). Researcher Karen Syse at SUM is one of the members

7 – 8 June 2010 The two-day Green Oslo symposium will be held the 7th and 8th of June 2010 at the campus of BI, Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. Welcome to register for day one, day two (researcher workshop) or both here

Speakers from North America, Europe and Scandinavia The following three keynote speakers will present at the symposium:

- Anne Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

- Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia, USA

- Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden