2010 Global Sustainability Summer School-Projects & Working Groups
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| 2010 Global Sustainability Summer School |
Land use transition - Dana, Eli, Jeananne, John, Veronica
Brock, Kinzig, and Perrings. 2010. "Modeling the Economics of Biodiversity and Environmental Heterogeneity". Environmental Resource Economics [[1]]
Walker, Holling, Carpenter, and Kinzig. 2004. "Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems". Ecology and Society. [[2]]
Unfiltered Project Ideas
1. Interaction between levels of social hierarchy in policy making 2. Policy networks collective action 3. How to help communities to be more sustainable considering physical constraints (e.g. water, power) and the role of local policy makers 4. Modeling policy instruments to assist in lowering aggregate rate of consumption 5. Find a framework for trade offs between ecosystem services 6. Conservation strategies that include ecosystem services in their strategies 7. Applying the New Medievalism concept to sustainability analysis of communities, national parks, and ecosystems 8. What measures are needed to monitor and understand community well being? 9. Complex systems methods for sustainability 10. How can we compare various energy option to determine most appropriate technologies? 11. making research findings applied - for decision makers, communities, and others 12. Using agent-based modeling to help identify "voice"/"value" of local people in developing countries for sustainable water resource management 13. Globalization and sustainability 14. Preparing for the 2012 United Nations conference on sustainable development (Rio +20) 15. Human drive to social order and environmental sustainability - complementary or mutually self-destructive? 16. Human-natural couple systems 17. Sustainability and resilience of large scale social systems 18. website/book on ecologic footprint of personal choices (e.g. paper versus plastic if you forget your shopping bags) 19. How far can a cradle to cradle philosophy take us toward sustainability 20. Models of sustainable innovation/invention 21. Agent models to better identify effective policy levers for increasing sustainability 22. "Sustainable" living means contracted mobility (transportation, food, economic)