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Lecture: Students for Global Sustainability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diego Puppin)
Thu Nov 22 17:36:41 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:30:51 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
The Students for Global Sustainability would like to invite you to the
first event in their 2001/2002 lecture series.
TITLE: Pathways to Sustainabilty: Evolution or Revolution?
Speaker: prof. Nicholas Ashford
When: Monday 26, 7-8.30 pm
Where: room 6-120
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Diego
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PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?
Nicholas A. Ashford
Professor of Technology and Policy
Director, Technology and Law Program
It is generally acknowledged that a sustainable future requires technological,
managerial, and social/cultural changes. However, whether an evolutionary
path
is sufficient is increasingly being called into question. Factor ten or
greater improvements in eco- and energy-efficiency may require significant and
revolutionary changes. Three factors are considered necessary for significant
technological transformations: willingness, opportunity, and capacity to
change. It will be argued that the latter may be the limiting factor.
Different visions of an industrial transformation will be discussed: (1)
evolution, entailing continuous learning, life cycle analysis, chain and niche
management, and environmental management systems, and (2) revolution,
requiring
products and processes that displace existing technologies including a shift
from products to product services, or to entirely new systems for satisfying
human needs.
__________________________
Nicholas A. Ashford is Professor of Technology and Policy at MIT, where he
directs research and teaches courses in Environmental Law and Policy;
Technology, Law and Public Policy; and Sustainability, Trade and Environment.
He holds both a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a Law Degree from the University of
Chicago, where he received graduate training in Economics. Dr Ashford served
on the US Environmental Protection Agency=s Science Advisory Board, and was
chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health
and
the Committee on Technology Innovation & Economics of the EPA National
Advisory
Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. Dr. Ashford is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves as an
advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme. He is a member of the
US-Greek Joint Council for the Initiative for Technology Cooperation in the
Balkans (ITCB).
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