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Operating within the bounds of nature

Limits and losers. humans not exempt. social justice. redistribution. Operating within the bounds of nature. Designing a safe, secure and robust society. measuring. monitoring. joy in planetary living. collective responsibility. Principles of

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Operating within the bounds of nature

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  1. Limits and losers humans not exempt social justice redistribution Operating within the bounds of nature Designing a safe, secure and robust society measuring monitoring joy in planetary living collective responsibility Principles of Sustainable Development personal responsibility self aware evaluating levying integrated knowledge Paying our way Acting on best science in precaution Creating virtuous governance wicked problems burden of proof penalising rewarding prudent empathetic benificence

  2. ethics Ideology and prejudice independence peer tribalism power relations political negotiation Trans- science Policy Science verification measurement legitimacy dispute over evidence

  3. policy politics bureaucratic culture scientific culture legitimacy technology public understanding of science regulation ethics, values and social justice economic culture consumption social behaviour civic culture

  4. no comprehensive framework for the linked analysis of “problem definition”, social justice and the long term gainers and losers wicked problems information is “institutionally framed”, so it is uncomfortable for other “institutional cultures”, because problem interpretation and solution search varies according to knowledge settings, training and roles uncomfortable knowledge solutions are messy because they are created in familiar practice and comfortable institutions (path dependency). Step change is almost impossible; innovative pilot schemes through boundary companionships clumsy solutions

  5. Green Growth and SD • Financial turbulence may lead to 15 million young adults in the EU unemployed by 2015 (10 million now) • Lower public sector pay plus delayed and reduced pensions may slow EU economic growth by around 1.5% • Any new conventional growth will have to come primarily from exports and innovation, not consumption nor financial services, nor endless financial stimulus • Green growth may absorb one quarter of this potential, but it requires plenty of start-up investment funds

  6. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) UN Green Investment Programme and UN Environment Programme Follow through of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and reflected in the UK ecosystem stocktake, and the Future of Land Use Project Pay off of between 5 and 10 to 1 for ecosystem maintenance investments Implications for land use tenure, for metrics, for sustainability accounting combining ecological and social capital, for redirecting subsidies, and for redesigning accountancy of public and private sector investment This decade will experience the acceptance or inability to recognise TEEB A role for ESDN/EEAC is to design and justify new measures, outlooks, and institutional arrangements for incorporating TEEB into green growth

  7. WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE? large scale : long term : no obvious link between personal behaviour and global outcomes too big to handle! connectivities mean no system of governance can predict or cope scenarios: joint endeavour, learning and adapting, experimenting and replicating Sustainability Science Innovation : creativity : imagination too complex to handle! abrupt change in ecosystem functioning means that scientific prediction and economic discounting are of limited value too indeterminate to handle!

  8. clear language listening piloting promoting Co-ordinating knowledge and learning Experimenting and progressing sharing interpretations recalibrating joint endeavour Sustainability Science Companionships new alliances new measures Future proofing and justice proofing Crossing the boundaries of familiarity ecological/electoral democracy new experiments overcomingobstacles

  9. SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE Conversing opening up hearts and minds via new companionships creative and innovative institutions Imagining Companioning creativity : preparing each cultural shift for the next comprising civic and formal governance beyond familiarity : evaluating and evolving working and learning together: opening up academia to new learning outcomes Knowing empathy : intuition : communication

  10. Young Adult Citizenship Initiative • Provide a social wage on a voluntary basis for any 19 to 25 year old, otherwise unemployed, drawn from financial transactions and carbon levies • Create local not for profit charities to enable local non SD economic activity to create pools of beneficial funds • Offer a menu of volunteering: mentoring: work experience: training: and social enterprise innovation • Create a Young Citizens Award on a basis of formal accreditation and gold, silver and bronze achievement

  11. Personal self esteem and self confidence Security from all domestic, neighbourhood, and international violence and abuse Betterment and wellbeing for everyone on a healthy planet Ensuring physical and mental health Offering opportunity and hope Creating trust and virtue in democracy

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