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HUMAN HABITAT 2010 Lecture Series is an open platform on the theme of Sustainable Cities, engaging a wide audience including specialists and lay people. This Lecture Series was designed and is being coordinated by the SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION Initiative in partnership with OCEANÁRIO DE LISBOA, Parque Expo and the Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente.
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Unifying Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
- FSSD -
Karl-Henrik Robért
Lisabon in February 2010
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FSSD presented as “unifying” after 20 years
Peer-reviewed on three arenas:•Theory•Applications•Tools
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• People are fantastic• People are behind un-sustainable development• Science community largely reductionist• TNS for scientific consensus process ”What can be agreed?”
The Natural Step – challenge and story
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What is TNS?
• NGO started 1989 by Karl-Henrik Robèrt.
• Scientific consensus to derive framework
• Testing in business, municipalities, institutions.
• Role models.
• Locations Sweden, US, UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Japan, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia
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TNS summarized into a mission:
Develop unifying framework and make it available to role models
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Three questions
•Do you have a definition of sustainability?•What is your gap? •What are you doing to bridge it?
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Logical flow of intellectual challenges…
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•Definition of success needed for strategy•Based on principles for complex endeavors •Requirements...
Flow of logics…
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•Necessary•Enough•General•Concrete•Non-overlapping•Boundary Conditions
(Very intuitive)
If principles have those qualities, they can deliver...
Requirements of ‘Basic Success Principles’
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•Systematic and strict, yet open ended approaches•Avoiding unknown problems•Trade-offs•Resource potential•System Boundaries•Tools aligned•Effective interdisciplinary cross-sector cooperation•Community building
Unique deliverables of such principles…
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Individuals Groups
Systems thinking
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Threats Forests Agriculture Fisheries Ground water Climate Metals Chemicals Global injustice Social trap Segregation Corruption
Profitable also in loneliness
Opportunities Resource costs Waste management Tax, legislation, insurance, loans International agreements New markets Innovation/design Trust Stories of meaning Productivity, transaction costs… Brand
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So, what’s the problem?
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Reductionism
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Sectors, departments and disciplines in drill-holes
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Structuredoverview
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Backcasting!
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System
Success
Strategy
Action
Tools
FSSD
Is key!
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Sustainable vision
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System
Success
Strategy
Action
Tools
FSSD
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A
BC
D
Level 3, Strategy
D step:•Direction right?•Flexible?•ROI?
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System
Success
Strategy
Action
Tools
FSSD
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Spread to 11 countries...
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Interface
“As we climb mount Sustainability, with the four FSSD principles at the top, we are doing better than ever on bottom line business. This is not at the cost of social or ecological systems, but at the cost of our competitors who still haven’t got it”.
Portland US, October 2007, Ray Andersson, President, Founder and CEO, Interface. Inc.
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VisionCore values
Sustainability Principles
Strategic goals
Integrating corporate goals with sustainability
- and understanding the business case of it -
Strategic plansBusiness program
Today’s reality
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AgricultureForestryEnergyTrafficMaterials…
Level 4, action for sectors
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- from ”fix” to innovative systems solutions -
… many actors, same language
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ÖvertorneåSEKO (70 local gov’s)WhistlerCalgaryFCMPortlandAPAEU Round TableChequamegon BayMadison W IPortsmouth NHLawrence NJPittsburgh/VandergriftEvanston ILDuluth MNJefferson County WICorvallis ORDublin…
Level 4, actions for government
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“This simple, science- and systems-based framework is the best out there. It needs to become part of a new common language, as well understood worldwide as the rules of soccer”.
Ken MelamedMayorWhistler, Canada
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WHISTLER2020 & The Na tural Step Integra ting Sustainability Ac ross our Community
Aug. 30t h,2007
Ken Melame d
Ma yor,
Re so rt Municip ality of Whistler
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Creativity w ithin Constra ints
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i. … mined materials.
ii. … produced substances.
iii. … physical encroaching.
iv. … social trust.
A
BC
D
Gap of PVC assessed - principle by principle -
Stockholm traffic
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System
Success
Strategy
Action
Tools
SSD Framework
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ISO14001
Triple bottom line
Sustainable growth
Faktor 4
Cleaner Production
Life Cycle
AnalysisZero Emissi
onRenewables
RMA
Ecological Footprinting
Sustainability analysis
Ecoliteracy
Factor 10
Hannover Principles
CSR NaturalCapitalism
Miljömålen
EMAS
EECA
LCA
Ecoefficiency
Agenda 21
Sustainability
Level 5, tools and concepts
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System Overview
2000 The Natural Step. All rights reserved.
Backcasting from principles(like chess)Organization X
ISO 14001Ecological footprintsFactor 10Zero EmissionNatural Capitalism…
Level 5, tools and concepts
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Conclusions:
Many good tools and concepts
Different strengths and gaps
None can replace structured systems perspective
Such increases the value of concepts and tools
Select, inform and develop tools as needed
Don’t wait for tools – get going in line with framework!
Robèrt, K.-H., Schmidt-Bleek, B., Aloisi de Larderel, J., Basile, G., Jansen, L., Kuehr, R., Price Thomas, P. Suzuki, M., Hawken, P., and Wackernagel, M. 2001. Strategic sustainable development – selection, design and synergies off applied tools -. The Journal of Cleaner Production, 10 (2002) 197-214.
Level 5, tools and concepts
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Real Change InitiativeInternational Research Program
CORE
…Trans-disciplinary, Cross-sector and Cross-cultural Research and Implementation
…FSSD shared mental model
…Multi-stakeholder base funding – Swedish EPA, Swedish Energy Agency, 3 Swedish Research Agencies, plus research funders from across the globe.
…Core refines and equips FSSD
… Petals apply FSSD for any thematic program around S.D
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The Real Change Core Program partners
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)
Lund Institute of Technology
The Natural Step International
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Real Change Research Program today
ÅU
MacUBTH
TNS
LU
LiUNijU
Am
U
ÅU
KT
H
BTH/LU/ TNS
60 million SEK/y and growing
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…greatest leadership opportunity ever
…is profitable regardless if others “get it” or not
…headed by leaders, not experts
…departures from principled definition of sustainability
…enables step-wise, open-ended yet strict re-design
…trade-offs as stepping stones, not choices between evils
…resource potential calculable
…purpose as system boundaries
…interdisciplinary cross sector community building
ConclusionStrategic Sustainable Development...
