SustainabilityInitiatives亚利桑那州立大学可持续性研究计划-ASU.ppt

The Arizona State UniversitySustainability Initiatives A Global Responsibility “We assume a collective responsibility to advance and strengthen the interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable development – economic development, social development and environmental protection – at local, regional and global levels” Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development Sustainability Analysis Human activities and the environment coupled systems Jointly determined Strongly nonlinear Complex Self-organizing Therefore: The unit of analysis should be the coupled socio-ecological system The Institutional Challenge New institutional arrangements are necessary to harness science and technology to address the challenges we face in reconciling our development goals with the planet’s environmental limits. ASU is Meeting the Challenge through the New American University Sustainability Initiatives: Sustainability Research Sustainability Education Sustainability Solutions Sustainability Technology Development Sustainability Campus Operations International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) IIS brings together life, earth and social scientists, engineers and government and industry leaders Phoenix will be a spring board to study and test approaches to urban sustainability The “Big” Questions What are the trends in the dynamic nature-society interactions that are integral to sustainability? What determines the vulnerability or resilience of a nature-society system? Are there meaningful “indicators” of un-sustainability and measurable thresholds beyond which a system cannot recover? What systems of incentive structures can most effectively move us toward more sustainable trajectories? Why build a ST focus on cities? 50% of all people now live in cities Society needs to add the equivalent of all existing past urban structure ST expertise in practice theory of urban sustainability is limited Global climate change is driven increasin