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Sustainable Development: Meaning & Metrics
ISCN Session on Measuring Work and Performance of the University
Nazli Choucri PoliCcal Science -‐ MIT Director – GSSD@MIT ISCN 2014 Media Lab, MIT, June 3, 2014 Global System for Sustainable Development
Meanings & Metrics
• Core Concept • Rio Framing • Expanded Concepts • The Parts & The Whole • Boundaries • Standardiza8on -‐ Comparisons • The Value of Metrics & Measures • Metrics for & of What? • Loads/capabili8es • Constraints, Context, & Customiza8on • Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD)
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1. A strategy for integraCng & organizing knowledge in a domain of interest in mulC-‐sector, and internaConal terms;
2 A method to represent this knowledge by a plurality of interrelated
concepts, and interrelaConships that are organized in internally consistent and hierarchical form
3 A set of selecCon and retrieval funcConaliCes consisCng of search engines and browsers which operate over the system’s quality-‐controlled knowledge base;
4. Enhanced capabiliCes enabling alternaCve mulC-‐lingual knowledge
provision, search, & navigaCon capabiliCes;
What is GSSD?
Site OrganizaCon:
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Knowledge Base on Sustainable Development*
• Concept & Theories • Indicators & Measures • Models & Case Studies • Agreements & OrganizaCons • Policy, Strategy & Responses
*Abstracts (with key words) and link to sources.
Popula8on Consump8on
Unmet Basic Needs Migra8on
Urbaniza8on
Energy Water Land
Agriculture
Industry & Manufacturing Trace & Finance
Mobility & Transport
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Governance & InsCtuCons
Conflict, Violence & War
Simplified RepresentaCon of GSSD Knowledge Content:
System Supports System Damages
<GSSD.MIT.edu>
Dimensions of Sustainable Development
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Domains of Sustainability
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Dimensions of Sustainability
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Domains & Dimensions of Sustainability
Cyberspace Supports for Sustainability*
**Reinforces Sustainability by: • de-‐materializa8on • de-‐spa8aliza8on • de-‐centraliza8on & • de-‐massifica8on
Reduces Disconnects Between: • informa8on & use • stakeholders & government • planning a & ac8on • policies & feedback
Facilitates Access to Knowledge • search & selec8on • networking for content • knowledge sharing • performance & measures
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*Based on Nazli Choucri, Cyberpoli*cs in Interna*onal Rela*ons, MIT Press, 2012: pp. 205-‐207 ** Selected from list in John Seely Brown and Paul Druid, The Social Life of Informa*on, Harvard Press, 2000.
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