Holistic Approaches to Societal Change: Why do You Think You/We can Make Improvements In Society?
11th International Conference on Innovation & Management ICIM 2014
November 18, 2014 Prof. Donald Huisingh Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee [email protected] SKYPE; huisinghdon
Outline of this presentation
What are the roles • Of history in guiding us to sustainable futures? • Of crises? • Of good examples? • Of alternative paradigms? • Of creativity? • Of ethical/spiritual values? • How can we integrate these elements into holistic and integrated approaches to achieve equitable, post-fossil carbon societies, which are truly sustainable?? Janus, the Roman God of gates and
doors, beginnings and endings
“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”
Jared Diamond focused upon "societal” collapses due to environmental, climate change, hostile neighbors and trade partners in assessing their responses or lack of responses to Survival or Collapse.”
He hoped we would learn from history! What can we learn from history?
What can we learn from history? What can we learn?
What can we learn from history? What can we learn? Can we learn? What are The Roles of Crises to Motivate People to Change;
What Roles have Crises had as Motivators for Making Changes? • Carson’s “Silent Spring” – pesticides-(1962) • Ozone layer thinning- halogenated substances- (1974 -1985) • Bhopal – (1984) • Colburn’s “Our Stolen Future”- endocrine disrupters-(1995) • Three Mile Island (1979) Chernobyl (1986) Fukishima (2011) Nuclear reactor meltdowns- • Smog and Climate Change (1930 – Present) • http://www.worldwatch.org/brain/features/timeline /timeline.htm
危机 Crisis 危 Danger wei 机 Opportunity Ji 危机 Crisis Air Pollution Episodes
• Many of the air pollution problems we have were chronic, long-term problems; • Sometimes we also have short-term smog episodes (Crises!!??) • Did the crises motivate us to make changes? Six of the Top Ten Environmental Crisis Incidents in 20th Century 1930.12 Belgium Meuse Valley fog Causes Combination of industrial air pollution and climatic conditions & pollutants: SO2, SO3, Particulates Sixty-Three human deaths in one week; main Consequence symptom was dyspnea (shortness of breath); s 1943 Los Angeles, USA Photochemical smog
Causes Emissions of CH, NOx, CO from vehicles, emissions from oil refineries Consequence 75% of the citizens were seriously affected by respiratory s and eye infections, millions of trees died in the high mountains; $1.5 billion loss due to air pollution 1952.12.5-9 London, UK Great Smog Causes CO2, CO, SO2, TSP emissions from coal burning; vehicle exhaust—particularly from diesel-fuelled buses; & heavily polluted air from continental Europe Consequences Four thousand human deaths in four days; symptoms: bronchitis, acute respiratory failure, heart failure, Great Smog of China January-February 2013 Tian ‘an Men Square
The Oriental Pearl TV Tower Zibo City
Shandong University The Air Quality Index of 600 AQI(Air Quality Index) Four Cities in China
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100 75 transition 1 50 transition 2 37.5 transition 3 25 target 0 01-10-2012 01-11-2012 01-12-2012 01-01-2013 01-02-2013 01-03-2013 01-04-2013 Data Source: EPA The Chinese Government is encouraging its citizen’s involvement in SD with the theme: “Cherish the Earth’s Resources: Change the Developmental Model” Janus, the Roman God of gates and
doors, beginnings and endings
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• Carbon dioxide concentration range= (185 – 295 PPM) (2004 380 PPM) Projected by 2050 to be between 450 & 750 PPM! • Methane concentration range = (340 -760 PPB) (2004 1700 PPB) Projected by 2050??? • Average temperature range during this period = 10° C; how much higher will it be in the next 100 – 300 years is a big question??
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Annual Mean Growth Rate (ppm y-1) 2010 2.37 (3x) 2009 1.63 2008 1.81 2007 2.11 1970 – 1979: 1.3 ppm y-1 2006 1.83 1 2005 2.39 1980 – 1989: 1.6 ppm y 2004 1.58 1990 – 1999: 1.5 ppm y-1 2003 2.20 2002 2.40 (decadal (decadal means) -1
2000 - 2010: 1.9 ppm y Annual Growth Annual Growth Rates
Data Source: Thomas Conway, 2011, NOAA/ESRL + Scripts Institution News, May 12, 2013 • 400 PPM • Which is the Carbon highest it has Dioxide! been in the last • Mauna Loa, Hawaii • two million years! What is the net quantity of carbon dioxide that is being added each day to the atmosphere, globally?
Estimates vary from 100,000,000 to more than 1,000,000,000 tons per day!
Increasing Average Temperatures
The rate of increase on land is accelerating. Warming for the entire 20th century clocks in at
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285, 400, 350 PPM Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere The Earth is Shrinking!!! • Desserts are spreading; o China is losing productive land to deserts at an accelerating rate • During 1950 – 1975 China lost 1,560 sq. km/yr. • By 2000 they lost 2,480 sq. km/yr
o In recent years Afghanistan lost 100 villages and Iran lost 124 villages due to advancing desserts; Half of the world’s forests have been destroyed by human activity. Annually, 9 million hectares of forests are being cut; this is an area equal to the size of Portugal We are now in a period of mass species extinction.
104 species become extinct every day.
We must find solutions for these problems? Global Income and Economic Disparities In Distribution of World Income
2nd Richest 20%
3rd Richest Richest 20% 20% 4th Richest Poorest 20% 20%
Source: Agenda for Change, Center for our Common Future. 1989 figures from UNDP Over 1.5 billion (25%) of the world’s population is impoverished and malnourished.
Vision Decline of the Middle Class • Between 1945 and 1973, productivity of American workers grew 96% and they received a 94% increase in wages • Between 1973 and 2011 , the middle class has decline. While American workers’ productivity grew by 80%, and they only received a 10% increase in wages. 危机 Crisis 危 Danger wei 机 Opportunity Ji The Earth is Shrinking!!!
• The Human Population continues to increase: 70,000,000+ per year!
o From, “The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization,” by Lester Brown http://www.earthpolicy.org/updates/2006/update61.htm Interconnectedness of Population, Affluence & Technology
Number of Environmental Number units degradation Environmental of of and pollution impact People X resources X per unit of = of (P) used per resource Population person (A) used (T) (I) Sustainable Development? Sustainable Development?Diamond of Sustainability
POPULATION LIFESTYLE ENVIRONMENT
HEALTH ENERGY
DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS NATURAL PARTICIPATION RESOURCES
Social issues Employment FOOD: LAND/WATER Poverty/Ethics ECONOMY POLITICS TECHNOLOGY © Bo Kjellén DEVELOPMENT POLICIES Buildings BUILT Equipment CAPITAL Information Infrastructure Human made Material
Skills Family SOCIAL Health Neighbours Community Abilities CAPITAL Companies Education Government People Connections Food Sunlight Fisheries Water Rainbows NATURAL Fertile Soil Metals Mountains CAPITAL Water Filtration Wood Seashores CO2 Oxygen Energy Bird Songs Natural Resources Ecosystem Services Beauty of Nature Trans Generational Perspectives
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Problem Multipliers vs. Solution Multipliers What are The Roles of
Good Examples to Motivate People to Change;
Historical Background of the Prevention Approach of Environmental Protection • It is a very long Journey from ‘Dilution is the Solution to Pollution’ • To ‘Prevention is the Solution to Sustainable Regional Development’ Some of the Preventive Environmental Protection Initiatives
• Agenda 21; • The Earth Charter; • Millennium Development Goals • The Precautionary Principle; • The Natural Step Principles; • The Melbourne Principles; • The Bellagio Principles • Pollution Prevention Pays • Cleaner Production/Leaner Production/Greener Production • Industrial Ecology/Circular Economy • Sustainable Consumption and Production • The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD) 2005 – 2014; • The Equator Principles for Sustainable Finance
Historical Background of the Prevention Approach of Environmental Protection • In 1975, J. T. Ling , VP of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) initiated a program they called, “Pollution Prevention Pays.” (PPP) • Since 1975, 3M saved/earned Billions of $’ in pollution control, clean up and better products by using PPP.
Historical Background of the Prevention Approach of Environmental Protection
• J. T. Ling was born June 10, 1919, in Beijing, China, into a family with a tradition of public service • He was a visionary pioneer of “pollution prevention” and an advocate of “sustainable development.” Developed a Conference
“Pollution Prevention Pays: Ecology with Economy as Policy” May 1982 Winston Salem North Carolina Published book “Pollution Prevention Pays: Ecology with Economy as Policy”
Published by Pergamon Press Regulatory support of PPP • Legislation passed in North Carolina legislature to promote Pollution Prevention 1983; Regulatory support of PPP
• Established the first Pollution Prevention (PP)Industrial Technical Assistance Center-1983
• Within the next few years PPP Technical Assistance Centers were established in the 50 U.S. states and the Canadian Provinces. The Landskrona Project –
• The first ‘Pollution Prevention Pays’ project done in Europe was in Seven Landskrona, Sweden companies, August 1987 – August 1989. Learning by Doing!
• The Landskrona team learned how to become effective ‘change agents,’ as they worked with the Landskrona companies. Learning by Doing! oChanging product design, oReplacing toxic raw materials oImproving process monitoring oImproving worker, customer and eco-system safety oAchieving process optimization
Global Diffusion of PPP
• The findings of the Landskrona project catalyzed other projects in: • Norway, Netherlands, U.K., Denmark, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Global Diffusion of PPP • Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, China, India, Korea, Canada, Mexico & Egypt and in about 45 other countries Regulations Promote Preventative Approaches • The U.S., Canada, China, The EU and other regions developed regulations to foster implementation of PPP, Cleaner Production, Toxics Use Reduction, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy. Through International Scientific Journals • The International Journal of Industrial Ecology; • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment; • The International Journal of Environmental Management; • The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education; Diffusion via International Scientific Journals
• I started the Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP) in 1992, • It is now published in twenty-four volumes per year.
Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Green Supply Chain Management; • Zero-Waste Technologies and Management; • Innovation, Innovation diffusion; • Overcoming Barriers to Change Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Zero Emissions Technologies; oElectroplating, Leather making, Papermaking, Steel Making • Innovations in: oGreen Chemistry; oGreen Engineering; o Industrial Ecology/Industrial Symbiosis/ Circular Economy
Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR); Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Sustainable Urban Transformation; Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Co-benefits in Urban and Regional Transformation;
Some Special Issues of the Journal of Cleaner Production
• Education for Sustainable Societies (Eleven volumes!)
• What are The Roles of Alternative Values to Motivate People to Change? Changing our Ways of Thinking & Acting
If mankind is to survive, we shall require a substantially new manner of thinking. Albert Einstein
Changing our Ways of Thinking & Acting We must begin to see the possibility of evolving a new lifestyle, with new methods of production and new patterns of consumption; a life-style designed for permanence. E. F. Schumacher
Stimulating Creativity and overcoming fear of failure!!!
“Imagination is more important than knowledge!”
Albert Einstein
January 2012 Making New Connections
“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Winner, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1937)
Jeremy Rifkin’s, “The Third Industrial Revolution”
• Society built upon energy efficiency and renewable energy;
Jeremy Rifkin’s, “The Third Industrial Revolution”
• Society built upon renewable energy; • Buildings serve as mini-power plants, which feed into the smart, decentralized energy grid; Jeremy Rifkin’s, “The Third Industrial Revolution” • Society built upon renewable energy; • Buildings designed to serve as mini- power plants that feed electrical energy into the decentralized energy grid; • Energy stored as hydrogen or in electric vehicle batteries; • Smart energy internet grid distribution system. Fossil Fuel Divestment • Ontario is the 1st province in North America to phase out coal-based electricity generation • “While politicians ignored environmentalists, when their medical doctors documented that smog kills large numbers of humans, they couldn’t ignore that and are shifting to renewable energy systems.” Fossil Fuel Divestment • Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, under pressure to divest from fossil fuels and to invest in green projects: • Invested $8 billion in reneable energy and energy efficiency improvements in May 2014 Fossil Fuel Divestment • The Largest academic sector divestment: Stanford University, May 2014, switch $18 Billion from coal to renewable energy. • As of Sept. 2014 Rockefeller and 180 other organizations : divest $300 billion from coal & oil to renewables; • Numerous religious groups are similarly divesting from fossils and are investing hundreds of Billions in renewables • Some believe we are close to the tipping point! • Moving Towards an Ecologically Sound Society: With Special Focus on Preventing Future Smog Crises in China and Globally • Carbon Emissions Reduction: Policies, Technologies, Monitoring, Assessment and Modeling
• http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner- production/call-for-papers/
• Systematic leadership towards sustainability • Decision-support models and tools for helping to make real progress to more sustainable societies • Eco-Industrial Parks/Circular Economies
• http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner- production/call-for-papers/
• Toward a Regenerative Sustainability Paradigm for the Built Environment: from Vision to Reality • Sustainability in the Mining and Metallurgical Industry • Sustainability and the Food Industry • Tourism and Sustainability
• http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner- production/call-for-papers/
Bhutan’s – Gross National Happiness • “The gross domestic product (GDP)…measures everything,in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” -- JFK • Instead of focusing on throughput measured by GNP or GDP, Bhutan measures and seeks to optimize Gross National Happiness, (GNH).
Bhutan’s Four Pillars of Gross National Happiness 1. Good Governance 2. Balanced Economic Development 3. Environmental Preservation 4. Preserve and Promote Culture Canadian Index for Well-Being (CIW)
• Canada is using 64 indicators to measure overall well-being (CIW) • Studies were done using CIW in Victoria, Fort McMurray, Kingston, Guelph, & Waterloo. CIW vs. GDP – Last Recession Support for use of True Wealth Measures
1.That governments should measure national progress using money-based statistics because economic growth is the most important focus for the country;
2. That health, social and environmental statistics are as important as economic ones and that governments should also use these for measuring national progress.
• Mr. Chris Coulter, Vice-President, GlobeScan Incorporated • London, UK, +44 20 7253 1441 • [email protected]
Worldwide Support for True Wealth Measures
Alternatives to Gross National Product (GNP)
or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) o The Happiness Index o The OECD Better Life (HI); Index o The Quality of Life Index o The UNDP’s Human (QoLI); Development Index (HDI); o The Wellness Index (WI); o The True Sustainability o The Inclusive Wealth Index; Index (IWI); o Country Futures o World Happiness Index Indicators; (WHI); o Human Development o The Happy Planet Index; Index (HDI); o The Gallup World Poll (QWP); o The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indictors; o The World Values Survey (WVS) o The Canadian Index of o The European Social Well-Being. Survey (ESS) o The UN’s Quality of Life Index
• “Practical Wisdom in Management Business Across Spiritual Traditions”
• Based upon the world's spiritual traditions, the author provides guidance on how businesses can develop a clearer picture of the world in which they operate, thereby, helping them to implement more sustainable corporate practices, financially and ethically.
• By Prof Dr. Claus Dierksmeier, • Humanistic Management Center, Global Ethic Institute • Greenleaf Publising: October 2014 ISBN 978-1-78353-131-8
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“haha-aha-ah” curve -after Arthur Koestler Bottom Up Solutions
Given the trends around productivity and the lack of employee remuneration, numerous models are being used to create more equitable & sustainable communities 1. Place-based companies 2. Worker ownership 3. Social enterprises 4. Traditional Co-ops 5. B-Corporations 6. Community Development Corporations 7. Land Trusts
Place-Based Enterprises
• Paul Shrivastava and James J. Kennelly are critical of “the “placeless” character of many enterprises.
Characteristics • Local ownership/control. Patient capital for the long-term • Production activities are interdependent with a place • A strong and holistic understanding that place is more than location, locality, or landscape, and is socially created meaning Worker Ownership • Employees own the organizations • 11,000 companies employing 10 million people in Canada • Hy-Vee, a large supermarket chain with almost 70,000 employees and $8B in sales ranks 48th on Forbes list of the largest U.S. private companies: B Corporations • Most companies pursue short-term profits and externalize negative costs
• Benefit Corps are required to provide benefits to their suppliers, worker-owners and to the communities in which they operate.
B Corp – 3 Step Process
1. Assessment: meet standards for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency 2. Governance requirements: Serve stakeholders interests 3. Declaration of Interdependence Sample B Corporations • Warby Parker: for every pair of eye glasses sold, a pair is given to someone in need • Revolution Food: 1 million meals for low income public school students provided each week Co-operatives
• Co-ops are owned and run by those using its services or by those working at the organization; • Some 130 million people or over 40% of Americans belong to one or more co-operatives. Land Trusts • By removing land from the speculative market and “democratizing ownership,” trusts can stop gentrification and support low income housing with development profits. • By 2012 it was estimated that 255 land trusts were operating in 45 U.S. states. Crowdfunded, Creative Solutions • Crowdfunding websites, like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, are enabling people to share great ideas and to obtain funding from people they have never met
• In five years over 7 million people pledged $1 billion, for funding 71,000 creative projects using Kickstarter Solar Roadways • A couple in Northern Idaho have a vision to create Solar Roadways • The idea is to create ‘intelligent’ roads made of solar panels that generate power, melt snow and warn drivers of potential accidents, etc. • The goal was to raise $1M – they raised $2M+!!! Crowdfunded, Creative Transit • Toronto is struggling with incredible challenges to overcome gridlock and provide effective transportation • Two citizens in a fast-growing neighbourhood, frustrated by poor service crowdfunded a private bus • Funders get a guaranteed bus seat with wi-fi and & can vote on the bus’ routes
“Changing the Food Game: Market Transformation Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture”
• Sustainability of global agricultural commodities is at a critical tipping point. • Collective systematic action that realizes breakthrough impacts with farmers and supply chains is needed.
• By Lucas Simons (Greenleaf Publisher) The Transition Network a. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience, b. The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times, c. The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ about (Founded by Rob Hopkins.) “Competing for a Sustainable World: Building Capacity for Sustainable Innovation”
• By Sanjay Sharma • 2014 Greenleaf Publishing Ltd. • ISBN-13:978-1-78353-122-6 Paperback The World’s First Open Innovation Platform • Fosters collaborative innovation and design for sustainability-oriented projects using: o Open Innovation and design sharing; o Crowd Sourcing; o Crowd Voting; o Crowd Funding; o An online shop for sustainable solutions o An international expert system • http://sustainabilitymaker.org/
How can we work in cities, regions and national governments to help them become catalysts for change? Be a catalyst and role model for change Be a catalyst and role model
for change
Be a catalyst and role model for change • Develop and enforce regulations designed to achieve sustainable societies; • Develop ecological, economic and ethical sustainability performance indicators; Be a catalyst and role model for change
• Use sustainability performance indicators to monitor progress toward sustainable societies; • Report progress or lack of progress and correct policies, procedures and processes as needed Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt
oNew thinking; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt
oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; oNew policies; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt
oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; oNew policies; oNew technologies; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt
oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; oNew policies; oNew technologies; oNew management; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt
oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; oNew policies; oNew technologies; oNew management; oNew cooperation; Sustainable Development In Higher Education Requires Us to Adopt oNew thinking; oNew paradigms; oNew policies; oNew technologies; oNew management; oNew cooperation; oNew values. In Conclusion • We have the responsibility to ensure that our courses, research, outreach and campus operational procedures address present and future challenges to help societies make the transition to equitable and sustainable post fossil carbon societies. How should we move forward?
What is Ahead on our Road to the Future? Why do You Think
You/We can Make Improvements In Society? • Be the Change • You • Wish to have • In Society!!! GLOBAL CLEANER PRODUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION CONFERENCE
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SITGES, BARCELONA, SPAIN 1-4 NOVEMBER 2015
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We invite authors to prepare original articles, state of the art reviews, case studies, plans for workshops, debates, simulations, games, demonstrations, knowledge cafés, and other interactive tools for the Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference. These inputs should be designed to help participants build upon existing & to develop new networks to accelerate transitions to equitable, sustainable societies.
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Bellagio Principles
For Assessment of Progress in Regional Sustainable Development 1. GUIDING VISION AND GOALS
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Be guided by a clear vision of sustainable development and goals that define that vision.
2. HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Consider the well-being of social, ecological, and economic sub-systems, their state as well as the direction and rate of change of that state • Consider the positive and negative consequences of human activity in a way that reflects the costs and benefits for human and ecological systems in monetary and non- monetary terms.
3. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Consider equity and disparity within the current population and between present and future generations, • Deal with concerns such as resource use, over- consumption and poverty, human rights, and access to services, • Consider the ecological conditions on which life depends, • Consider economic development and non-market activities that contribute to human/social well-being.
4. ADEQUATE SCOPE
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Adopt a time horizon long enough to capture both human and ecosystem time scales thus responding to needs of future generations, as well as those current to short term decision-making, • Define the space of study large enough to include not only local but also long distance impacts on people and ecosystems, • Build on historic and current conditions to anticipate future conditions pertaining to where we want to go, where we could go.
5. PRACTICAL FOCUS
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should be based on: • Use an explicit set of categories or organizing framework that links vision and goals to indicators and assessment criteria, • Use a limited number of key issues for analysis, • Use a limited number of indicators or indicator combinations to provide a clear signal of progress, • Standardize measurements to permit comparisons of indicator values to targets, reference values, ranges, thresholds or direction of trends.
6. OPENNESS
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Make the methods and data that are used, accessible to all, • Make explicit, all judgments, assumptions, and uncertainties in data and interpretations.
7. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Be designed to address the needs of the users, • Draw from indicators and other tools that are stimulating and serve to engage decision-makers, • Aim, from the outset, for simplicity in structure, • Use clear and plain language.
8. BROAD PARTICIPATION
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Obtain broad representation of key grass-roots, professional, technical and social groups, • Include youth, women, and indigenous people - to ensure recognition of diverse and changing values, • Ensure the participation of decision- makers to secure a firm link to adopted policies and resulting planned actions.
9. ONGOING ASSESSMENT
Assessment of progress toward sustainable development should: • Develop a capacity for repeated measurement to determine trends, • Be iterative, adaptive, and responsive to change and uncertainty, because systems are complex and change frequently, • Adjust goals, frameworks, and indicators as new insights are gained, • Promote development of collective learning and feedback to decision-making.
10. INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
Continuity of assessing progress toward sustainable development should be assured by: • Provide clearly assigned responsibility and on-going support in the decision- making process, • Provide institutional capacity for data collection, maintenance and documentation • Support development of local assessment capacity.