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Envisioning Sustainability three-dimensionally

Envisioning Sustainability three-dimensionally. Rodrigo Lozano. G.I.N. Conference. Cardiff, U.K. 4 th July 2006. Sustainability types. Institutional : based on need satisfaction and goal maximisation within three systems: the economical, environmental and social;

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Envisioning Sustainability three-dimensionally

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  1. Envisioning Sustainability three-dimensionally Rodrigo Lozano G.I.N. Conference. Cardiff, U.K. 4th July 2006

  2. Sustainability types • Institutional: based on need satisfaction and goal maximisation within three systems: the economical, environmental and social; • Ideological: based upon ideologies such as modern environmentalism, liberation theology, radical feminism, eco-feminism, eco-socialism, and Marxism; • Academic: based mainly on economic, ecologic and sociologic disciplines. Source: (Mebratu, 1999)

  3. Sust. definitions convergences • Stakeholder inclusion and engagement; • Equilibrium among economic, environmental, and social aspects; • Inter-generational equity (equilibrium among longitudinal aspects, i.e. short-, long- and longer-term perspectives).

  4. Representations • Representations and images can improve learning and understanding of new or complex concepts (Carney & Levin, 2002; Hilligoss & Howard, 2002; Sankey, 2003; Schnotz, 2002; Stokes, 2001); • Images tend to be easier to remember than non-image data; • Visual representations help to communicate with images concepts that are difficult to express clearly and succinctly with words and to make them more tangible.

  5. Venn Diagram Concentric Circles Sustainabilityrepresentations Source: (Mitchell, 2000; M. Hart, 2000; Mebratu, 1998; Peattie, 1995) Source: (Dalal-Clayton & Bass, 2002; Lozano-Ros, 2003; Mebratu, 1998; Mitchell, 2000; Peattie, 1995, p. 41)

  6. Venn diagram drawbacks • Lack of continuity (i.e. long-term perspective); • SD consideration as highly anthropocentric or compartmentalized; • Areas lying outside of juxtaposition considered either as partial sustainability (P) or notat all related to sustainability; • Implication that Sustainability is only the union of the three aspects.

  7. Concentric circles drawbacks • Lack of continuity, (i.e. long-term perspective); • SD consideration as highly anthropocentric or compartmentalized; • Implication that there are parts of the environment that are not part of society and parts of society that are not part of the economic aspects; • Indication that there are clear separations of the aspects (subsystems).

  8. First-tier Sustainability equilibrium from Venn diagram Environmental Economic Social

  9. First-tier equilibrium from concentric Circles

  10. Incorporating the time dimension FIRST TIERSUSTAINABILITYEQUILIBRIUM

  11. Some inequilibria

  12. Two-tiered Sustainability equilibria

  13. Conclusions • SD appears to be an abstract and complexidea to the typical citizen; • Diagrams and images have been developed to help people grasp the different aspects of SD and sustainability; • A new way of seeing sustainability is proposed: the two tiered Sustainability equilibria, where the topics in each aspect interact with each other, but also with those of other aspects, today and tomorrow.

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