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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
provisioning services |
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| food, water, timber, fiber |
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
regulating services |
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| affect climate, floods, disease, waste, and water quality |
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
cultural services |
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| provide recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits |
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
supporting services |
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| soil formation, photosynthesis, and nutrient cycling |
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four necessary shifts in business practices
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| increase productivity of natural resources |
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four necessary shifts in business practices
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| shift to biologically inspired product models |
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four necessary shifts in business practices
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| Move to solutions-based business model |
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four necessary shifts in business practices
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| Reinvest in natural capital |
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| increasing food quantities through scientifically improved crops |
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Urban biodiversity
interrelationship |
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| towns and cities are good experimental areas between humans and nature |
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Urban biodiversity
distinct |
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| ecosystems have their own characteristicts |
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Urban biodiversity
quality |
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| can significantly contribute to standards of living |
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| people are more likely to take action having a personal and relevant connection |
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| He wrote things influencing people that environmental conservation was a necessary element of any civilized nation |
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| Two models of conservation |
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(national parks)
keeping people OUT of an area, eventually making people believe that 'the wild' are places devoid of humans |
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| participatory conservation |
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Conservation initiatives that are locally conceived, flexible, and participatory – based on the ecology and economy of the local area
"biosphere reserves" |
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| allow for the sustained production/consumption of recourses while recognizing that human beings are a part of nature |
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Three roles of biosphere reserves
Erich Hoyt |
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Conservation role
logistics role
development role |
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Three roles of biosphere reserves
Erich Hoyt
Conservation role |
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| conservation of genetic materials, ecosystems, and species |
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Three roles of biosphere reserves
Erich Hoyt
logistics role |
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| providing interconnected facilities for research and monitoring |
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Three roles of biosphere reserves
Erich Hoyt
development role |
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| fostering a connection with human populations near the protected area |
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| an approach to economic and business development that protects the biosphere and improves competitiveness and profitability by making ‘simple changes’ to the way businesses are run |
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| necessary shifts in business practices towards cradle to cradle |
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1 Increase productivity of natural resources
2 Shift to biologically inspired production models
3 Move to solutions-based business model
4 Reinvest in natural capital |
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| Corporate social responsibility |
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| the commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large |
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Corporate social responsibility
Primary Stakeholders |
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| those individuals/groups without whom the business would not exist - shareholders, investors, employees, customers |
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Corporate social responsibility
Secondary Stakeholders |
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| those individuals/groups that affect or influence the work of the business – media, social interest groups, NGOs |
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| businesses should be owned by the community, and benefits go to the community |
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| One of the biggest issues with current settlement structures |
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| a living document committed to understanding human's independence of nature |
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| a document that adapts to changing situations as knowledge bases expand |
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Hanover principle
(what it covers) |
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humanity and nature to coexist
relationships between spirit and matter
creates safe objective long term values
rely on natural energy
understands limitations of design |
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| articulating an ethical but practical vision that locals can support, develop, and identify with |
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| What sparked the idea of a Transition Town? |
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| peak oil statistics and oil embargo |
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| living a post-carbon future rather than preparing to live in a post-carbon future |
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| environmental benefits, high-quality and affordable neighborhoods, and mixed-use urban space |
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| redefining the American Dream, replacing suburban sprawl with higher densities, open space, less pollution |
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| creates space that will enhance the natural, social, cultural, and physical environment, fashioning human experiences through a created physical space |
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| a technical solution to limit the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere |
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| carbon capture and storage through deliberate measures relating to forest protection and management, afforestation, and soil improvement through the addition of biochar |
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| Ecological Footprint Analysys |
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| Refers to the total area of productive land and water required continuously to produce all of the resources consumed by a region/ city and to assimilate all the wastes produced, wherever on earth that land is located |
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| Ecological footprinting critiques |
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It is not a dynamic modelling tool
Has no predictive capacity.
Does not factor in the needs of non-human species |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
stages |
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Inventory
Impact Analysis
Impact Assessment
Improvement |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Inventory |
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| gathering mainly quantifiable data which may involve expensive research |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Impact Analysis |
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| consideration of how this inventory impacts the environment in each area documented under the inventory |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Impact Assessment |
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| the measuring of impacts broken down into three stages |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Improvement |
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| an appraisal of where and how the product or service can be further improved |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Impact Assessment stages
Classification |
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| human health, natural resources |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Impact Assessment stages
Characterization |
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| aggregation of data and creation of impact profile |
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Impact Assessment stages
Valuation |
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| weighting of different impact categories using quantitative and qualitative data |
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enables organizations and communities to plan their activities in a more sustainable fashion
outlines a set of system conditions and focuses on initial causes of problems |
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The Natural Step (TNS)
processes |
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Identify the need of the product, service, or organization and key stakeholders.
The present situation is analyzed – what’s working, what needs to change.
Future scenarios that work within the same frame are envisioned.
Strategies are identified and adopted |
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The Natural Step (TNS)
principle one |
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| society’s use of elements from the ground with measures for things like carbon dioxide in the air, sulfur dioxide and acid rain |
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The Natural Step (TNS)
principle two |
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| restricting emissions of anthropogenic production of substances with measures/indicators for harmful levels |
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The Natural Step (TNS)
principle three |
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| addresses anthropogenic manipulation of nature |
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The Natural Step (TNS)
principle four |
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| efficiency of society’s use of natural assets |
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| Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
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| a collaborating center of the United Nations Environment Programme setting out principles and indicators for organizations to measure and communicate their economic, environmental, and social performance. |
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| The major aims of the GRI |
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promote a standardized approach to reporting
stimulate demand for sustainability information
facilitate the implementation of sustainability reporting |
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The GRI sustainability reporting guidelines
Economic |
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| wages, benefits, productivity, job creation, expenditures on research and development, investment in training |
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The GRI sustainability reporting guidelines
Environmental |
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| impacts of processes, product impact on air, water, and, biodiversity |
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The GRI sustainability reporting guidelines
Social |
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| workplace health and safety, employee retention, rights, wages, working conditions |
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| The GRI sustainability reporting guidelines |
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Economic
Environmental
Social |
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| distribution of capabilities to produce and disseminate information |
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| a collection of the technology available |
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| the monetary availability of different regions/cultures |
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| a chain of ideas, concepts, images, and values (freedom, democracy, sustainability) that constitute individual and group worldviews and perspectives |
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| Citizen media projects/citizen journalists |
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Collectively run media outlets with the common purpose of creating and disseminating accurate information
The increased potential for participation, direct action, free expression, dialogue and engaged critique is a welcome alternative to the dominance of corporate and state media |
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| key hallmarks of participatory media |
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| Media interest in ‘compelling pictures’ of dying children, famine, destruction, in order to promote or document a cause |
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| common myths prevalent in Sustainable Development education |
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Ignorance is a solvable problem.
With sufficient knowledge and technology we can manage the Earth
Our stock of knowledge is increasing (loss of TEK proves otherwise)
Unreformed higher education can restore what we have lost
Purpose of education is to provide students with the means for upward mobility and economic success.
Western culture is the highest achievement of humanity |
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| Leadership (according to Northouse) |
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| a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal; to influence, to motivate, to inspire, and to (sometimes) be morally uplifting |
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| Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership |
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| how individuals effectively relate to self and others – the need to understand others |
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Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership
prerequisites |
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Self-awareness
Self-management
social awareness
relationship management |
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Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership
Self-Awareness |
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| attuned to inner feelings, self assessment/confidence |
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Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership
Self-Management |
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| self-control, adaptability, initiative, optimism |
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Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership
social awareness |
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Emotional Intelligence as a Necessity of Leadership
relationship management |
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| inspiration, develop others, change agent, conflict management, teamwork and collaboration |
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a capability that helps people engage with others from different occupation, national, or ethnic cultures
necessary to be open to different ideas and experiences (even if they’re odd or alien) |
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The use of reason, analysis and evaluation
The collection of relevant info
The appeal to emotion
Encouragement or motivation to change
The impact of real-world events |
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| the different fields of conversation constituting a fruitful dialogue |
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polite
participants seek dominance
exhibit curiosity
ideas are free flowing |
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fields of conversation
polite |
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| participants don’t say what they think or feel, do not share as a result of politeness |
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fields of conversation
dominance |
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| participants battle and get angry |
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fields of conversation
curiosity |
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| people express their thoughts, admit not knowing |
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fields of conversation
awareness |
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| Participants are atentive of the significance of the whole, ideas are free flowing and connections happen |
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listening
respecting
suspending opinions
voicing |
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dialogue practice
listening |
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| demonstrate dropping our assumptions and being attentive to not only others, but to ourselves |
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dialogue practice
respecting |
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| take consideration of different viewpoints and realize everyone thinks differently |
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dialogue practice
suspending opinions |
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| seeing with new eyes, taking others' viewpoint into consideration over your own |
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| speaking genuinely, relinquishing the need to dominate the conversation |
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