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A Journal of Sustainable Human Development

Vol. 7, No. 3, March 2011
Luis T. Gutierrez, Editor
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Advances in Sustainable Development

SUMMARY & OUTLINE

This supplement attempts to be a radar screen for recent/emerging/forthcoming advances in sustainable development. In selecting items for this supplementary page, priority is given to information about publications and tools with an educational and human-centric focus. This update includes the following reminders that sustainable development has a human face:

1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences
3. Advances in Sustainable Development
4. Advances in Integral Human Development
5. Advances in Integrated Sustainable Development
6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases
7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process
8. Sustainable Development Modeling and Simulation
9. Sustainable Development and the International Community
Note: Items in this page are updated as information is received and as time permits. If the reader knows about new pubs/tools that should be announced in this page, please write to the Editor.

1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action

SUGGESTION FOR PRAYER

World Day of Prayer 2011: Chile

How Many Loaves Have You?

On Friday March 4, 2011 the women of Chile invite us to join with them in an opening procession, carrying a "panera", the name that Chileans give to their everyday bread basket. Bread is central to their daily life and sharing bread is a universal sign of hospitality.

Enduring a devastating earthquake in February, 2010, and two other earthquakes since January, 2011, the women of Chile further encourage us to enter a process that draws us into the bible, into the context of Chile and into the real situations of our lives and communities. How many loaves have you? What are your gifts? What can you share? These are questions we are asked to ponder as we reflect on the meaning of the theme, How Many Loaves Have You?

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Source: World Day of Prayer 2011: Chile

SUGGESTION FOR STUDY


Courtesy of Workers of the World Relax
"There are approximately seven billion people on the earth today. As population continues to grow it is becoming clear that the planet is not as big as we once thought it to be; it is also becoming obvious that humans are wreaking havoc upon the environment. The big question we have been trying to solve for the past 100 years is, "how do we maximize production and produce more and more stuff?" The big question we now face is, "what do we do with all the junk and pollution we have created?". To make matters worse, we now seem more determined than ever to work harder and produce more stuff, which creates a bizarre paradox, we are proudly breaking our backs to decrease the carrying capacity of the planet.

"So what is the solution? A great beginning would be to reduce the industrial workweek. We would consume less, produce less, work less, pollute less and live more. Providing that the remaining work be distributed among more people, an industrial slow-down could have the additional benefit of reducing unemployment. This is a simple concept which has not garnered much attention. This book tackles the ideological constraints to environmental sustainability and proves how a reduced workweek can help solve many of our social and environmental problems."

Quoted from The Simple Economics of Less Industrial Work, by Conrad Schmidt
See also The Jevon's Paradox.

SUGGESTION FOR ACTION

Practice
Nonviolence

About Nonviolence
Green-Party-200
Source: TopPun Free Peace Posters


2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences

NEWS

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Environmental News Network


Mongabay Environmental News


Planet Ark
World Environmental News


Science Daily
Earth & Climate News
Sustainability News
Science & Society News


IISD Climate Change Daily Feed


Climate Action News


World Technology News


World News Network


All Newspapers Worldwide


United Nations News Service
UN Sustainable Development News
UN Gender Equality News


Sustainable Development Upcoming Events
UNCSD/IISD


Value News Network


Global Post


Human Development News


Catholic News Service


Ekklesia Christian News Bulletin


LiveScience News


Inter Press Service (PSI)


ELDIS NEWSFEEDS

Eldis Development Newsfeeds

General - all subjects

Newsfeeds by Subject

Ageing populations
Agriculture
Aid and debt
Children and young people
Climate Change
Climate adaptation
Conflict
Corporate responsibility
Education
Environment
Finance policy
Food security
Gender
Globalisation
Governance
HIV and AIDS
Health
Health systems
ICT for development
Influencing policy
Jobs
Jobs, Events and Announcements
Livelihoods
MDGs
Manuals and toolkits
Migration
Participation
Poverty
Trade policy

Newsfeeds by Region

Africa
East Asia and Pacific
Latin America and Caribbean
Middle East and North Africa
South Asia

PUBLICATIONS

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Facing Up to Climate Change
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
1 March 2011


The State of the World's Children 2011
Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity

UNICEF, 25 February 2011


Infrastructure for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development in Africa
UN-HABITAT, February 2011


Nuclear Subsidies:
Still Not Viable Without Subsidies

Earth Track & Union of Concerned Scientists
February 2011


Towards a Green Economy:
Pathways to Sustainable Development
and Poverty Eradication

UNEP, February 2011


Cancún De-briefing:
An Analysis of the Cancún Agreements
Climatico, February 2011


Renewable Energy in Europe 2010
EurObserver, February 2011


The Energy Report:
100% Renewable Energy by 2050

World Wide Fund for Nature
2 February 2011


Sustainability: The 'Embracers' Seize Advantage
MIT/BCG, Winter 2011


UNFCCC - The Future of the Process:
Remedial Action on Process Ownership
and Political Guidance

Climate Strategies
2 February 2011


Post-Cancun Analysis
Policy Briefing, The Climate Group
17 January 2011


Decision Making In A Changing Climate
World Resources Institute
January 2011


Longer-term climate finance after Cancun
Benito Muller
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
January 2011


Global Risks Report 2011
World Economic Forum


World on the Edge: How to Prevent
Environmental and Economic Collapse

Lester R. Brown
Earth Policy Institute
January 2011


Global Chief Supply Chain Officer Strategy
EFT, Environmental Leader
January 2011


Global 3PL & Logistics Outsourcing Strategy
EFT, Environmental Leader
January 2011


Sustainable Development Policy & Practice
A Knowledgebase of International Activities
Preparing for the UN Conference
on Sustainable Development
(UNCSD, or Rio +20)
IISD, 2011


Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster
and the Future of Offshore Drilling

USA GPO Oil Commission, January 2011


Population: 7 Billion
National Geographic
Population & Environment Series
Starting January 2011


Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory 2009,
GHG Management Institute
January 2011


Human Rights World Report 2011
Human Rights Watch
January 2011


Global Employment Trends 2011
International Labor Organization
January 2011


Global Technology: Changes and Implications
National Academy of Engineering USA
January 2011


Creative Economy:
A Feasible Development Option

UNCTAD, 4 January 2011


Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill:
The Fate of the Oil

Jonathan L. Ramseur,
USA Congressional Research Service,
16 December 2010


Global Wage Report 2010/11:
Wage policies in times of crisis

ILO, 15 December 2010


The Role of Ecosystems in Developing
a Sustainable Green Economy

UNEP, 15 December 2010


Corruption and fraud in agricultural and energy subsidies: identifying the key issues
IISD/GSI, December 2010


Sustainable Society Index (SSI)
Sustainable Society Foundation
December 2010


Gender and Globalization:
Patterns of Women's Resistance

Edited by Erica G. Polakoff
and Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
DeSitter Publications, November 2010
(free download study guide)


Climate Proofing for Development
GTZ, Germany, November 2010


World Energy Outlook 2010
UN International Energy Agency, 9 November 2010


Ecological Footprint Atlas 2010
Global Footprint Network, October 2010


German climate finance put to the test
An assessment of German financial support for
climate-related activities in developing countries
from a development policy perspective
Germanwatch and Bread for the World
November 2010


From Climate Finance
to Financing Green Growth

Project Catalyst, November 2010


Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: The Grand Challenges
International Science Council, November 2010


Beyond Consultation: Civil Society and Governance of International Institutions
David Gartner, Brookings Institution,
September 2010


Education for sustainable development lens:
a policy and practice review tool

UNESCO, 2010


SOFI 2010
State of Food Insecurity in the Word

FSN Forum, FAO, 2010


State of African Cities 2010:
Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets

UN Habitat, 2010


Population and Climate Change Hotspots
Population Action International, 2010


A New Approach to Weather Insurance
Ruth Hill & Miguel Robles
IFPRI, 2010


Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

Wharton School, 2010


Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action:
Problems and Solutions

Lisa Shu & Max Bazerman
Harvard Business School, 2010


Community Champions: Adapting to Climate Challenges
Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, Laurel Murray
IIED, 2010


Open for Service:
A Case for Good Governance

Micah Challenge International, 2010


Global Corruption Barometer Report
Transparency International, 2010


State of the World Population 2010
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)


World Migration Report 2010
International Organization for Migration
United Nations


World Youth Report 2010:
Youth and Climate Change

Division for Social Policy and Development
United Nations


Sustainable Consumption and Production
UNEP, 2010


Common Cause:
The Case for Working
with our Cultural Values

Tom Crompton, WWF/Oxfam,
September 2010


The Post Carbon Reader
Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lerch Eds.
Watershed Media, 2010


Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012:
Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

Cambridge University Press, 2010


Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security:
Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex,
and Parenthood to World Affairs

Evelin Lindner, HumanDHS, 2010


What You Need to Know about Energy
USA National Academy of Sciences, 2010


Enough is Enough:
Ideas for a Sustainable Economy
in a World of Finite Resources

Center for the Advancement
of the Steady State Economy
November 2010


The Climategate Inquiries
Global Warming Policy Foundation
September 2010


Climate Action Book
Climate Action & UNEP, 2010


Voices of the Vulnerable
UN Global Pulse, 2010


Transforming Finance:
Financial Group Recognizes Finance
As A Global Commons

Committee on Transforming Finance
Ethical Markets, 17 September 2010


Green Excuses:
Collusion to promote protectionism?

Tim Wilson, Institute of Public Affairs,
Australia, August 2010


The Corporate Tax Gap
Trades Union Congress (TUC), UK, 2010


Climate change:
A summary of the science
,
The Royal Society, UK, 30 September 2010


Global Gender Gap Report 2010
World Economic Forum, 2010


Gender Inequality and the MDGs:
What are the Missing Dimensions?

OECD, 2010


Biodiversity Scenarios:
Projections of 21st century change in
biodiversity and ecosystem services

Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
Convention on Biological Diversity,
5 October 2010


Ocean Ecosystem Services
Science to Action, 2010


Living with the Sea
Science to Action, 2010


Marine Managed Areas:
What, Why, and Where

Science to Action, 2010


Living Planet Report 2010:
Biodiversity, Biocapacity, and Development

WWF, 20 October 2010


The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis
on Emerging and Developing Economies

Institute for Public Policy Research, 2010


Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2010


Social Watch Report 2010:
A Citizens Global Progress Report
on Poverty Eradication and Gender Equality

Europe External Policy Advisors, 2010


Global Knowledge for Global Change
IDS Annual Report 2010


Valuing Sustainability Primer
Network for Business Sustainability, 2010


World Social Science Report:
Knowledge Divides

UNESCO 2010


National Capacity Self-Assessments
UNDP, August 2010


Photo Gallery of Winners by Region
European Union
International Drawing Competition
on Gender Equality, 2010


Climate Change Connections:
Gender and Population

WEDO, 2010


Development and Climate Change
World Development Report 2010

World Bank, 2010


Access to Collection of
World Development Reports
World Bank, 1978-2010


FORTHCOMING IN 2011
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment


TOOLS & DATABASES

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United Nations Data
UN Statistics Database
UN MDG Indicators
UN Human Development Index (HDI)


UNCSD/IISD Data for CSD-16
Sustainable Development Policy
& Practice Knowledgebase


Humanity's Footprint Data
Ecological Footprint
Footprint for Nations
Footprint for Cities
Footprint for Business
Carbon Footprint
Personal Footprint
Footprint & Biodiversity
Footprint & Human Development


Earth Policy Institute Data Sets
Population, Health, and Society
Natural Systems
Climate Change
Energy Resources
Transportation Systems
Food and Agriculture
Economics & Development


World Bank
World Development Indicators (WDI)


TopTen Search Tool (Europe)
Indentifies the most energy-efficient
appliances on the European market


TopTen Search Tool (USA)
Indentifies the most energy-efficient
appliances on the American market


Sustainable Society Index
Interactive Map


Social Science Space
A space to explore, share and shape
the issues facing social scientists


Interactive Mapping of
Population and Climate Change

Population Action International


Global Advocates Toolbox
Population Action International


Development Timelines Data Application
Eldis Community, 1 February 2011


Green Media Toolshed
Green Media Tools


Toolbox Top Ten
Progressive Communications Net


Teaching and Learning
for a Sustainable Future:
Dissemination and Training Toolbox

UNESCO Education for
Sustainable Development


Global Corruption Barometer
Transparency International, 2010


Analysis of Supply Chains
SourceMap


Happy Planet Index (HPI)


Global Debt Clock


Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)


Human Development Index (HDI)


Living Planet Index (LPI)


Quality of Life Index (QOLI)


Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)


Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)


Carbon Footprint Calculator


Climate Scoreboard


Global Climate Dashboard


Oil Reporter


Green Transitions Scoreboard


OECD Social Institutions
and Gender Index (SIGI)


OECD Gender, Institutions
and Development Database


TouchGraph Browser Google


Community Earth System Model 1.0


CONSIDEO MODELER
How to master complex projects


World Digital Library (WDL)


HathiTrust Digital Library


INED Population Simulator


WorldWideScience Search Engine


US Government
MetaLib Search Engine


Apps for Development


Adaptation Learning Mechanism


ENVISION Version 5
GIS-based tool for scenario-based community and regional planning and environmental assessments
Oregon State University


CONFERENCES & JOURNALS

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Conference Alerts
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by Topic, Country, or Keywords.



Calls for Papers
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by Specialization, Country, or Keywords.



Journal Articles
The latest Tables of Contents
from thousands of scholarly journals
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Conferences


Environmental Film Festival
Washington DC
15-27 March 2011


Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability:
Navigating the Complexities of Global Change

Arizona State University
11-16 March 2011


Earth System Governance
Colorado State University
17-20 May 2011


International Ecumenical Peace Convocation
Kingston, Jamaica
17-25 May 2011


Sustainability Transitions
Second International Conference
Lund, Sweden
13-15 June 2011


Women's Worlds 2011
Ottawa, Canada
3-7 July 2011


Global Studies Conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
18-20 July 2011


System Dynamics Conference
Washington DC, USA
24-28 July 2011


Technological Innovation Systems:
Conceptual, Methodological,
and Empirical Advances

EAWAG, Gothenburg
15-19 August 2011


Technology Transfer in a Global Economy
University of Augsburg, Germany
21–23 September 2011


International Conclave on Climate Change
Center for Climate Change
Engineering Staff College of India
Hyderabad, India
12-14 October 2011


40th Annual Conference
of the North American Association
for Environmental Education

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
12-15 October 2011


25th International Congress for
Conservation Biology (ICCB 2011)

Christchurch, New Zealand
28 November - 2 December 2011


Behavior, Energy & Climate Change
Conference (BCEE 2011)

Washington DC, USA
29 November - 2 December 2011


UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012

3. Advances in Sustainable Development

  • Approaching the Limits to Growth, Paul Chefurka, February 2011.
  • Ecological Footprint Atlas, Global Footprint Network, 24 November 2010..
  • What's blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial, Bill Rees, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, Fall 2010.
  • 4. Advances in Integral Human Development

  • Human Development Index and the Ecological Footprint, Global Footprint Network, 10 February 2011.
  • Population 7 Billion, Robert Kunzig, National Geographic, January 2011.
  • The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, Human Development Report, United Nations, 4 November 2010.
  • 5. Advances in Integrated Sustainable Development

  • Energy Report & Scenarios 2000-2050, World Wide Fund for Nature, February 2011.
  • Green Economy Report, United Nations Environmental Program, February 2011.
  • World Energy Outlook 2010, UN International Energy Agency, 9 November 2010.
  • 6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases

  • Sustainable Development Policy & Practice Knowledgebase, UNCSD/IISD, 2011.
  • Environmental Knowledge, Maps, and Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2011.
  • Ecological Footprint Data and Trends, Global Footprint Network, October 2010.
  • 7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process

  • Sustainable Land Development Inititiative, TriplePundit, 2 December 2010.
  • Sustainable-Development-Model-318x273
    Source: TriplePundit
    This is a hierarchical model that visualizes sustainable development in terms of three interacting dimensions, each with three interaction sub-dimensions:

  • Profit (economics)
    Create Value
    Eliminate Waste
    Recognize Interdependence
  • Planet (the human habitat)
    Natural Resources
    Energy Flows
    Humans & Nature
  • People (society)
    Share Knowledge
    Accept Responsibility
    Quality of Life

  • Fifteen Global Challenges for Humanity, Millennium Project, 2010.
  • MillenniumProject-15GlobalChallenges-315x235
    Source: Millennium Project
    The lines show all the interactions between 15 challenges facing humanity. It provides a better visualization of the complexity of the process.

    Assuming that the 15 challenges can be analyzed in groups of 5, the number of group combinations to be analyzed is 15!/10!5!, or 3003. If the order in which they are considered matters, then the number of challenge permutations to be analyzed is 15!, or 1307674368000.

    Computers can crunch numbers, but resolving these 15 challenges together requires more than number crunching.

  • The Perfect Recipe, Concita Ladelfa, EuroEcoTeens.Net, Energy and Environment Comenius Project, 23 November 2010.
  • sustainable-development-euroecoteens-315x302
    Source: Comenius Project
    This is the best visualization. It shows that, in the ultimate analysis, the transition from consumerism to sustainability must happen in human minds and hearts before it can happen at any level - local, national, or global.

    This model suggests the additional (and critical) insight that the transition is contingent on gender equality and cross-gender solidarity. Sustainable development will require the collaboration of all men and women of good will.

    The transition from homo economicus to homo ecologicus requires gender equality, because the ecological mindset cannot take root and grow as long as humans are engaged in any form of domination; and patriarchy is the most pervasive structure of domination.

    8. Sustainable Development Modeling and Simulation

  • Advancing Integrated Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, Anthony Halog and Yosef Manik, Sustainability, 23 February 2011.
  • Modelling Global Green Investment Scenarios, Andrea Bassi, Millennium Institute, Chapter 13 of the UNEP Green Economy Report, February 2011
  • Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.4, Pelican Web, February 2011.
  • 9. Sustainable Development and the International Community

  • Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Summit Meeting 20-22 September 2010.
  • Education for Sustainable Development, United Nations "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), UNESCO.
  • United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women, launched 24 February 2011.

  • WCC-MAY2011
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