Transcript Strategic Sustainable Development

Strategic Sustainable Development
Sustainable hospitality
31 may – 4 june 2010
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Could you handle the complexity?
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Could you be strategic?
• Do you have a definition of sustainability?
• What is your gap?
• What are you doing to bridge it?
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What does it take?
Sustainability Principles
Systems Perspective
Backcasting
Strategic prioritization
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5-level model
What does the system look like in which I live?
How is it constituted?
What is ´success´ in this system? What
definitions apply?
What strategy must I use short term and long in
order to be able to achieve success?
What actions do I need to take to fulfille the
strategy and what actions do I start with?
What tools and resources do I need and have I got
them all sorted?
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Basic science
Nothing disappears
Everything disperse
We consume quality - concentration and
structure
Plants produce net quality
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Cycles of Nature
Open system
for energy
«Photosytesis
provides new
structure »
Slow geological cycles
(vulcano eruptions
and weathering)
Closed system
for matter
1) Nothing
disappears
2) Everything
disperse
Slow geological cycles
(sedimentation and
mineralization)
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Basic science
People
Diversity
Common Human Needs
Self-organisation in social structures
Interdependence
Capability to use Empathy
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Hur do we destroy the system?
Degrade by
physical means
Barriers to
people
meeting their
basic needs
Increase
concentrations
Increase
concentrations
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Sustainability Principles
In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing...
1...concentrations of substances extracted
from the Earth’s crust,
2...concentrations of substances produced
by society,
3...degradation by physical means,
and in that society...
4...people are not subject to conditions that
systematically undermine their capacity to
meet their needs.
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What does this mean to me?
What does it mean to business?
What does it mean to communities?
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Sustainablity Principles
We are no longer contributing to…
1...that nature is subject to sustematically increasing
concentrations of substances extracted from the
Earth´s crust,
2...that nature is subject to systematically increasing
concentrations of substances produced by society,
3...that nature is subject to systematically increasing
degragation by physical means,
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
4...that people are subject to conditions that
sustematically undermine their capacity to meet their
needs.
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Sustainability principle 1
In a sustainable society nature
is not subject to….
…systematically increasing concentrations of substances
extracted from the Earth´s crust.
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Sustainability principle 1
What can we do...?
Fossil Fuels
Renewables
Scarce metals
Abundant metals
Inefficient Use
Efficient Use
Dissipative Use
Tight technical Cycles
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Phase out scarce metals
METAL
IN TOP SOIL
WEATHERING
(MG/KG)
(W)
(KTON/YEAR)
MINING
FOSSIL
FUELS
(M+F) / W
(M)
(KTON/YEAR)
(F)
(KTON/YEAR)
Al
72 000
1 100 000
18 000
34 000
0,047
Fe
26 000
390 000
540 000
34 000
1,5
Ti
2 900
44 000
2 500
1 700
0,095
Cr
54
830
3 800
34
4,6
Cu
25
380
9 000
55
24
Pb
19
290
3 300
85
12
Cd
0,35
5,3
20
3,4
4,4
Hg
0,09
1,4
5,2
10
11
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Sustainability principle 2
In a sustainable society nature
is not subject to….
…systematically increasing concentrations of substances
produced by society;
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What can we do…?
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Persistent & Unnatural
Inefficient use
Dissipative use
Abundant, breakdown easily
Efficient use
Tight Technical Cycles
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Sustainability principle 3
In a sustainable society nature
is not subject to….
…systematically degradation by physical means.
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What can we do...?
Resources from poorly
managed ecosystems
Inefficient use of
resources and land
Resources from wellmanaged ecosystems use
Efficient use of resources
and land
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Sustainability principle 4
In a sustainable society people
are not subject to…
…conditions that systematically undermine
their capacity to meet their needs.
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Human needs
Subsistence
Idleness
Participation
Protection
Affection
Understanding
Creation
Identity
Freedom
Manfred Max-Neef et al
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What can we do?
What barriers might we be
placing in the way of others
meeting their needs?
Unsafe working and
living environments
Safe working and
living environments
Economic barriers
Win/Win Situations
Enterprise
Development
Political Oppression
Ineffective / inequitable
resource consumption
Political Freedom
Effective and just resource
allocation
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Sustainablity Principles
We are no longer contributing to…
1...that nature is subject to sustematically increasing
concentrations of substances extracted from the
Earth´s crust,
2...that nature is subject to systematically increasing
concentrations of substances produced by society,
3...that nature is subject to systematically increasing
degragation by physical means,
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
4...that people are subject to conditions that
sustematically undermine their capacity to meet their
needs.
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Causes instead of effects
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Strategic prioritization
Handling of trade-offs
Relevant system boundaries
Cross-sectoral collaboration
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Backcasting
...
Vision
2014
Time
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Backcasting
Planning from
today
Planning from
success
Fixing the
problems that
show up.
Start from
success and
plan from that.
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Backcasting
”We can not solve
today´s problems
with the thinking
that led us to the
problems.”
Albert Einstein
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The ABCD-process
Awareness
& Vision
Vision
Actions &
solutions
Future
Baseline
analysis
Prioritisation
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Prioritisation of actions
1. Right direction?
2. Flexible platform?
3. Good return on investment?
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