Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development

1. Myths

   • abundance
   • inexhaustability
   • belief in substitution
   • nation on the move from depleted areas
   • "Anything goes" for nation's growth

2. classification

   • Strong
     • No net loss of natural capital
   • Weak
     • substitution of natural capital for manufactured / human capital

3. externalities

4. principles

   • ecological
   • economic
   • social

5. natural capitalism

   • radical resource productivity
   • biomimicry
   • service & flow econ
   • invest in natural capital

6. Implications for Practitioners

   • complex systems
   • many stakeholders

7. Higher Levels

   • State
     • Regional
       • Local
         • Planning Scheme (Strategy Plan)
       • Definition
       • New Regionalism
       • NRM Regions
       • statutory regions

8. Resources

   • systems thinking
   • ecosystem services
     • DEFN: The benefits people obtain from ecosystems
     • Provisioning: food, water, timber
     • Regulation of: climate, flood, disease, wastes, water quality
     • Supporting: soil fermentation, photosynthesis, nutrient cycling
     • Cultural: recreational, aesthetic, spiritual
   • typologies
     • Use Values
       • Direct Use of Outputs: crops, timber
       • Ecological Function Value: Flood control, climate
       • Option Values
     • Non-Use Values
       • Existence Values
       • Bequest Values
   • classification
   • characteristics
     • Subjective
     • Relative: (time, tech, culture, politics, econ)
     • Functional: (SD not just econ growth)
   • DEFN: physical / abiotic or human / biotic; capable of use, to fulful human needs / wants. Placed in a social, economic, cultural, political, administrative and technological context
   • Biodiversity
     • Implementation Tools
       • Planning
         • Roles / Responsibilites
         • Meaning
         • Management of
         • ...The Future
           • Integration
           • Strategic Committment
           • Systems Thinking
           • Evidence based decision making
           • convergent approaches
         • SPA: seek to achieve ecological sustainability by:
           • a) managing process of development
           • b) managing the effects of development on the environment
           • c) coordination & integration of planning at the local, regional and State levels
       • Regulation
         • Protected Areas (PAs)
           • Governance
           • NRS: Gaps / Framework
           • Management
             • Joint Management (JM)
               • integrates gov and community - land owned by Ind. leased to gov
               • many stakeholders integreated
               • board of mgmt
               • cooperative mgmt betw land owners and park mgmt
             • Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs)
         • NCA: Protects listed Flora and Fauna and defines PAs
         • VMA: protects veg in Qld freehold & leasehold
         • EPA: protects env. from environmental harm
       • Education / Awareness incl. MBI's
         • Instruments
         • Communication strategies
       • Property Rights
         • Instruments
           • purchase land
           • inherit / donate
           • native title
           • covenants over properties
           • voluntary agmts
           • exclusive use rights (Ind agmts)
           • crown rights on title
           • Purchase of land and lease back
           • TUMRAs
     • bioregional planning (Bioregions and RE's)
       • defined by its people, many land uses, contains 1 whole ecosystem
       • Bioregion = based on landscape patterns
       • Regional Ecosystem = veg community in a vioregion consistently associated with a particular combination of geology, landform soil.
     • Pressures
     • Connectivity
     • Assessment
     • Values
       • ethical values
       • social / cultural
       • production services
       • regulation service
       • Preservation of options
       • ecosystem services
     • DEFN: variety of life & its processes; incl the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, the communities & ecosystems in which they occur & the landscapes or regions of which they are a part.
     • Components
       • Genetic
       • Species
       • Ecosystem
       • Regional
     • Threats
       • Habitat loss & degradation
       • Introduction and spread of Invasive Species
       • Over-exploitation of natural resources
       • Pollution and diseases
       • Human induced climate change