The Arizona State University Sustainability Initiatives

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The Arizona State UniversitySustainability
Initiatives
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Sustainability
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International Institute for Sustainability
Decision Center for a Desert City
Decision Theater
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A Global Responsibility
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• We assume a collective responsibility to
  advance and strengthen the interdependent and
  mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable
  development economic development, social
  development and environmental protection at
  local, regional and global levels
• Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable
  Development

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The Role of Science in Sustainable Development
Sustainability Science focuses on the dynamic
interactions between nature and society,with
equal attention to how social change shapes the
environment and how environmental change shapes
society.
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Economic Development
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Social Development
Environmental Protection
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Sustainability Analysis
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• Human activities and the environment
• coupled systems
• Jointly determined
• Strongly nonlinear
• Complex
• Self-organizing
• Therefore
• The unit of analysis should be the
• coupled socio-ecological system

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The Institutional Challenge
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• New institutional arrangements are
• necessary to harness science and
• technology to address the challenges
• we face in reconciling our development
• goals with the planets environmental limits.

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ASU is Meeting the Challenge through the New
American University Sustainability Initiatives
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• Sustainability Research
• Sustainability Education
• Sustainability Solutions
• Sustainability Technology Development
• Sustainability Campus Operations

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International Institute for Sustainability (IIS)
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• IIS brings together life, earth and social
  scientists, engineers and government and industry
  leaders
• Phoenix will be a spring board to study and test
  approaches to urban sustainability

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The Big Questions
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• What are the trends in the dynamic nature-society
  interactions that are integral to sustainability?
• What determines the vulnerability or resilience
  of a nature-society system?
• Are there meaningful indicators of
  un-sustainability and measurable thresholds
  beyond which a system cannot recover?
• What systems of incentive structures can most
  effectively move us toward more sustainable
  trajectories?

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Why build a ST focus on cities?
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• gt 50 of all people now live in cities
• Society needs to add the equivalent of all
  existing past urban structure
• ST expertise in practice theory of urban
  sustainability is limited
• Global climate change is driven increasingly by
  urban activities
• Cities have growing impact on remaining
  undeveloped lands
• Decision-making processes are poorly understood
  scientifically

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What are some urban policy issues?
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• Ecological footprint of cities
• Air quality links to childrens health
• Urban carbon cycles and architectural choices
• Urban security
• Emerging infectious diseases
• Growth patterns
• Economic conditions
• Adequate supply of clean water
• Urban Heat Island Effect

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Water supply Distribution and quality
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• Changes in precipitation and temperature
• Higher demand of water
• Higher runoffs - lower recharge of aquifers
• Salt intrusion in coastal areas
• Aggravating Factors
• Incomplete urbanization
• Low enforcement of planning
• Pollution
• Problems to secure present and future water
  supply in urban areas

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Urban Heat Island

• Studies buildings, surface materials, urban
  forestry, climate and modeling
• Can alternative designs and materials reduce
  human impact on the climate change and
  environment?

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Common elements in studying cities
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• Fast-growing cities outgrow jurisdictional
  boundaries
• Regional issues dominate but regional governments
  weak
• Urban influences extend into suburban, rural,
  wild areas
• Model boundary conditions porous and hard to
  define
• Social and natural scientists rarely collaborate
  about cities

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What would be studied?
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• Physical systems geology, hydrology, atmosphere
• Biological systems microbial, botanical,
  zoological, ecological
• Social systems economics, demographics, culture,
  policy
• Engineered systems water, energy, sewer,
  telecom, agriculture, transportation
• Built systems construction, architecture, land
  cover
• Interactions among all of above

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Why Phoenix?
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• Several large federally-funded environmental
  research projects
• 5th largest, 2nd fastest-growing urban center in
  USA
• Geography, climate, hydrology, history relatively
  simple to model
• Ongoing collaborations with state agencies,
  industry, universities
• Goal is for Greater Phoenix to be a wired,
  modeled natural lab for the study of rapid
  urbanization

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Agricultural Urban Recreational
Phoenix Rapid Urbanization
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Shanghai
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Beijing
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100 Cities Project Standardized, repeated urban
remote sensing
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Different sensors different information
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Visible to near-infrared 15 m/pixel
Shortwave infrared 30 m/pixel
Thermal infrared bands 90 m/pixel

• Major land cover classes
• Vegetation health
• Soil properties
• Soil contamination

• Urban surface materials
• Rooftop materials
• Energy use
• Fugitive dust production
• Metal contamination
• Ecological communities

• Surface energy balances
• Regional climate models
• Anthropogenic heat sources
• Heat island development

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100 Cities Urban Environmental Monitoring
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• Remotely sensed imagery, ground observations and
  other digital geographic information
• Early warnings of emerging vulnerabilities in
  cities across the globe
• Geological science
• Ecology
• Biology
• Hydrology
• Demographics

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The Decision Center for a Desert City
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• One of 3 New Centers from the National Science
  Foundation
• Dedicated to increasing understanding of decision
  processes in water management while facing an
  uncertain climate
• While...informing local water managers through
  best science available
• And through 3-D visualization using the new
  Decision Theater

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The Decision Theater Vision
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• A World-Class Facility for Science-Based,
  Informed Analysis -- A Place to Connect Science
  with Practice
• A Home for Policy Makers and the Community to
  Participate in Immersive, Collaborative Decision
  Making To Visualize the Future through
  Alternative Scenarios
• A Laboratory for Researchers to Advance the
  State-of-the-Art in Visualization, Computer
  Sciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Policy Sciences

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Urban Sustainable Materials and Renewable
Technologies (SMART) Program
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• Automobiles highway and road materials
• Innovative technologies
• Sustainable surface materials
• Urban context of material usage

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Example Institutional Partnerships

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• Monterrey Tech
• Stanford University
• University of East Anglia (Tyndall Center)
• Maastricht University
• International Leadership for Environment and
  Development (LEAD)
• Harvard University
• University of Washington
• National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

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Example Institutional Partnerships

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• Monterrey Technological Institute
• Stanford University
• University of East Anglia (Tyndall Center)
• Maastricht University
• Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD)
  International
• Harvard University
• University of Washington
• National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

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Collaborative Opportunities in Sustainability
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• Urbanization and Growth
• Urban Heat Island
• Sustainable Materials
• Water Management
• Urban Ecology and Land Use
• 100 Cities Program
• Joint Research Projects
• Exchange of Researchers
• Exchange of Students
• Executive Education
• Visualization through the Decision Theater

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• Freedom from want, freedom from
• fear, and the freedom of future
• generations to sustain their lives on this
• planet are the 3 grand global challenges
• for the 21st Century
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in his
• Millennium Report to the General Assembly

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The Arizona State UniversitySustainability
Initiatives June 2, 2005