1. Crisis or Opportunity?

3. 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 you’ll urinate about 12,000 gallons of urine in your Lifetime.

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6. 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?

7. 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

9. Conceptual Map of the Sustainable Development Literature Four Integrated Challenges of Regional Ecology 1.Wise stewardship of ecosystems and natural capital (environment) 2. Adaptable political organization and government that fosters social learning and innovation (legal- institutional terrain). 3.Social justice and equity (socio-cultural milieu) 4.Efficiency in systems of production, distribution and exchange (economy and technology) Regional Ecology Space local regional global Time present decades centuries millennia

10. 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.

11. 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)

12. The triangle of conflicting goals for planning and the three associated conflicts Social Justice, Economic Opportunity, Income Equality Environmental Protection Overall Economic Growth and Efficiency Property Conflict Development Conflict Resource Conflict Green, Profitable, Fair Sustainable Development 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)

13. Industrial Ecology Community Development Three E’s & governance Integrative discourses EquityEconomic efficiency Environmental stewardship Governance Info and comm technology Urban & Regional Planning (New Regionalism/ Institutionalism) Sustainability Science Humanities (Ethics, Aesthetics, History, Wisdom Traditions Local Global Conceptual Matrix to Enable Integrative Views and Knowledge Sharing Watershed Management Planning & Decision- support Regional San Diego-Tijuana City Region

19. D.Scott Slocombe (2001) Integration of Physical, Biological, and Socioeconomic Information. In A Guidebook to Integrated Ecological Assesments, edited by Jensen and Bourgeron

20. 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

33. 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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