Advances in Sustainability Indicators
On June 1st at 2 p.m. four panelists will make their oral presentations on Advances in Sustainability Indicators.
- Alexandra Marques from the Instituto Superior Técnico; Urban Environmental Responsibility, “In 2008 the world population reached a turning point: urban population equaled, for the first time, rural population. According to United Nations (UN), this tendency will continue and in 2050, about 70% of world’s population is expected to live in urban areas.”
- Alejandra Gonzalez Mejia from the University of Cincinnati; Fisher Information As A Measure Of Sustainability In Metropolitan Statistical Areas, “In 1983, during the United Nations General Conference, the World Commission on Environment and Development introduced the term sustainability…”
- Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir from the University of Iceland; Measuring Sustainable Energy Development (sed): Linking Sed Indicators To Dynamics Of Change, “In 1999, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in collaboration with the UN Committee on Sustainable Energy, the United Nations Work Programme on Energy Indicators of Sustainable Development, and other organizations, initiated a project to develop energy system indicators that could be used in a composite multidimensional index.”
- Dr. Deepak Malghan from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; A Framework For Consistent Biophysical Metrics, “One of the key areas of ecological economics research concerns the development of biophysical metrics that measure the physical size of economic activity.”
Make sure you register for the May 31 – June 3, 2009 conference today! The conference will be held at American University in Washington D.C. The USSEE website is the place to check for regular schedule and speaker updates. If you have any questions, please contact secretariat@ussee.org.