Crisis or Opportunity?

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Crisis or Opportunity?
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The mature human brain weighs, on average, a mere
1.4 kilos (three pounds), yet it contains a
phenomenal 100 billion nerve cells (neurons) plus
10 to 50 times that number of cells in a
supportive network of nourishing tissue and
fibers (National Research Council 1989). Your
nerves transmit messages to and from your brain
at speeds about 200 miles per hour! Your body
grows another 40 yards of hair every 24 hours.
Your body is about 70 water? And youll urinate
about 12,000 gallons of urine in your Lifetime.
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From Ivory Towers to Ivory Gardens
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The Library of Congress is the largest library in
the world, with nearly 128 million items on
approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The
collections include more than 29 million books
and other printed materials, 2.7 million
recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million
maps, 5 million music items and 57 million
manuscripts. The Library receives some 22,000
items each working day and adds approximately
10,000 items to the collections
daily. http//www.loc.gov/homepage/fascinate.html
The UCSD Library has over 3 million volumes on
its shelves.
What does the academic knowledge tell us? How is
it produced, organized, shared, integrated and
made useful?
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Schools Divisions at UCSD

• Arts and Humanities Division
• Biological Sciences Division
• Engineering, Jacobs School
• International Relations Pacific Studies
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Physical Sciences
• School of Management
• School of Medicine
• School of Pharmacy
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Social Sciences
• UCSD Extension

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Conceptual Map of the Sustainable Development
Literature

• Four Integrated Challenges of Regional Ecology
• Wise stewardship of ecosystems and natural
  capital (environment)
• Adaptable political organization and government
  that fosters social learning and innovation
  (legal-institutional terrain).
• Social justice and equity (socio-cultural milieu)
• Efficiency in systems of production, distribution
  and exchange (economy and technology)

Time present decades
centuries millennia
Regional Ecology
Space local regional
global
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Identifies four interlocked, components of
sustainability science Highlights the REGION as
the most amenable geographic scale for
integrating theory and practice
Source National Research Council (1999) Our
Common Journey A Transition Toward
Sustainability.
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Sustainability Science science committed to
bridging barriers that separate traditional modes
of inquiry. The National Academies National
Academy of Sciences National Academy of
Engineering Institute of Medicine National
Research Council
The major threats and opportunities of the
sustainability transition are not only multiple,
cumulative, and interactive, but also
place-based. In other words, it is in specific
regions with distinctive social, and ecological
attributes that the critical threats to
sustainability emerge, and where a successful
transition will need to be based.
(National Research Council 1999 285)
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The triangle of conflicting goals for planning
and the three associated conflicts
This diagram is adapted from Campbell (1999,
figure 12.1). Campbell notes Planners define
themselves, implicitly, by where they stand on
the triangle. The illusive ideal of sustainable
devleopment leads one to the center (p. 253)
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San Diego-Tijuana City Region
Industrial Ecology
Community Development
Watershed Management
Planning Decision- support
Global
Regional
Local
Three Es governance Integrative discourses Equity Economic efficiency Environmental stewardship Governance
Info and comm technology
Urban Regional Planning (New Regionalism/ Institutionalism)
Sustainability Science
Humanities(Ethics, Aesthetics,History, Wisdom Traditions
Conceptual Matrix to Enable Integrative Views and
Knowledge Sharing
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D.Scott Slocombe (2001) Integration of Physical,
Biological, and Socioeconomic Information. In A
Guidebook to Integrated Ecological Assesments,
edited by Jensen and Bourgeron
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Schools Divisions at UCSD

• Arts and Humanities Division
• Biological Sciences Division
• Engineering, Jacobs School
• International Relations Pacific Studies
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Physical Sciences
• School of Management
• School of Medicine
• School of Pharmacy
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Social Sciences
• UCSD Extension

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Source of Transdisciplinary diagram Tress,
Bärbel, Gunther Tress, Gary Fry and Paul Opdam.
2006. From landscape research to landscape
planning aspects of integration, education and
application. Dordrecht Springer. Chap. 2, p. 16.
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