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Transitioning Toward Sustainability - Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop (Paperback)
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Transitioning Toward Sustainability - Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Proceedings of a Workshop (Paperback)
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In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A
Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to "reinvigorate
the essential strategic connections between scientific research,
technological development, and societies' efforts to achieve
environmentally sustainable improvements in human well-being."1 The
report emphasized the need for place-based and systems approaches
to sustainability, proposed a research strategy for using
scientific and technical knowledge to better inform the field, and
highlighted a number of priorities for actions that could
contribute to a sustainable future. The past 15 years have brought
significant advances in observational and predictive capabilities
for a range of natural and social systems, as well as development
of other tools and approaches useful for sustainability planning.
In addition, other frameworks for environmental decision making,
such as those that focus on climate adaptation or resilience, have
become increasingly prominent. A careful consideration of how these
other approaches might intersect with sustainability is warranted,
particularly in that they may affect similar resources or rely on
similar underlying scientific data and models. ? To further the
discussion on these outstanding issues, the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on January
14?15, 2016. Participants discussed progress in sustainability
science during the last 15 years, potential opportunities for
advancing the research and use of scientific knowledge to support a
transition toward sustainability, and challenges specifically
related to establishing indicators and observations to support
sustainability research and practice. This report summarizes the
presentations and discussions from the workshop. Table of Contents
Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Decision Sciences, Demography, and
Integrated Assessment Modeling 3 Urban Systems 4 Sustainable
Manufacturing 5 Sustainable Food Systems 6 Ocean Sustainability 7
Paths Forward 8 Workshop Synopsis Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: Workshop Participants Appendix C: Biographies of
Planning Committee, Speakers, and Staff
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