Principles of Sustainability

Core content

• Moving from an “Empty World” to a “Full World”
• The Ecosystem Service Approach (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and UK National Ecosystem Assessment)
• Ecosystem processes and succession; the role of energy; feedback systems; biodiversity and system restoration
• Using an ecosystem approach: quantifying trade-offs and synergies; improving water and nutrient management, reducing greenhouse gases emissions, enhancing stability, resistance and resilience
• Introduction to the circular economy: opportunities for businesses; opportunities for consumers
• How design, manufacturing practice and management can contribute to a circular economy
• Case study: trade-offs, synergies, and opportunities to enhance well-being and ecosystem service provision in terms of energy, food, feed and wood for a case study area.

Timetable

Day

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Theme

Ecosystem services – principles and practice

Circular economy – principles and practice

Workshop

09:00-10:00

Introduction;
Sustainability
Definition & Principles

The role of biodiversity

Introducing the circular economy and the opportunities

Principles of design for a Circular Economy

Synergies and trade-offs: energy, food, feed and wood workshop

10:00-10:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:15-11:15

Resource management in a “full world”

Stability, Resistance and Resilience

Case studies and emerging trends

Design for a circular economy

11:15-11:30

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

11:30-12:30

Well-being & the ecosystem approach

How can we reduce greenhouse gases?

Schmidt MacArthur Fellowship and the Circular Economy

Enhancing resource efficiency: sludge

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12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Energy, ecosystem processes & succession

Using an ecosystem approach for food production

Private study

Resources & manufacturing

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