What is sustainability? What is planning? What is development?

1. • What is sustainability?
• What is planning?
• What is development?
• IMF. 2012. Water for People. Finance & Development 49(2): http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2012/06/picture.htm

2. What is “sustainable development?”
• Brundtland Commission (1987) definition
of sustainable development: "development
which meets the needs of current
generations without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their
own needs"

3. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”

4. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”
• Economic development

5. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”
• Economic development
• Social inclusion

6. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”
• Economic development
• Social inclusion
• Environmental sustainability

7. A little more on Sachs (2015), chapter 1:
• “Analytical” vs. “normative”
• According to Sachs, what made possible the
incredible growth of population in the past
few centuries?
• Who is Jeffrey Sachs?
• State of China’s economy?
• What is “poverty?”
• Climate change in this course

8. Jepson 2001
• Old!
• Journal of Planning Literature
• Literature review
– Cf., annotated bibliography
– Organized, argument, tell a story
– Stand alone or prelude to research paper

9. Jepson 2001, continued
• Carrying capacity: “Effective systemic self-
regulation is related to the concept of carrying
capacity and dependent on feedback flows…. The
first of these concepts, carrying capacity, is
understood to be the inherent and natural capacity
of a system to absorb the resource extractions and
waste disposal stresses that accompany
productive activity to support the activities of
its constituent life forms….”

10. From Ecohealth. Retrieved 3/6/06:
http://www.ecohealth101.org/image
s/E02_body2_400x417.jpg
Carrying
capacity

11. Jepson 2001, continued
• Carrying capacity: “Effective systemic self-
regulation is related to the concept of carrying
capacity and dependent on feedback flows…. The
first of these concepts, carrying capacity, is
understood to be the inherent and natural capacity
of a system to absorb the resource extractions and
waste disposal stresses that accompany
productive activity to support the activities of
its constituent life forms….”

12. The challenges of interdisciplinary topics

13. “Tragedy of the commons”

14. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”

15. Sachs (2015): 3 concerns of “sustainable
development?”
• Economic development
• Social inclusion
• Environmental sustainability

16. “Three Es” – same idea as Sachs, just a little
catchier… sort of

17. Intergenerational equity, vs.
Intragenerational equity

18. Brundtland Report:
• Foundational document
• Is growth the solution to global problems?
• “Smart growth” movement in planning

19. Sustainable planning &
development:
“think global, act local?”

20. Urban growth
impacts on
agriculture

21. Start again here:

22. From Ecohealth. Retrieved 3/6/06:
http://www.ecohealth101.org/image
s/E02_body2_400x417.jpg
Carrying
capacity

23. Engelman, Robert. 2016. Six Billion in Africa. Scientific American. February. 314(2):56-63.

24. What is “planning?”

25. What is “planning?”
Barney 2002:

26. What is “planning?”
“… urban planning can be described as a technical and political process
concerned with the welfare of people, control of the use of land, design of
the urban environment including transportation and communication
networks, and protection and enhancement of the natural environment.” McGill
University School of Urban Planning. About urban planning. Retrieved January 24, 2016: https://mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/planning

27. What is “planning?”
• Urban planning
• Regional planning

28. Lewis 1955
International Economic Development Council. Economic Development Reference Guide. n/d.
Retrieved February 1, 2016:
http://www.iedconline.org/clientuploads/Downloads/IEDC_ED_Reference_Guide.pdf

29. Lewis 1955, 420
• Development as increasing human choice

30. Lewis 1955, 420
• Development as increasing human choice
• Wealth can decrease as well as increase human
happiness

31. Lewis 1955, 422
• “Luxuries” afforded by development

32. Lewis 1955, 422
• Development impacts on women
• Development impacts provided by women

33. Lewis 1955, 432
• Problems of transition

34. Lewis 1955, 432
• Problems of transition: changes in social values

35. Sen 1999, 5
• Freedoms as good in themselves, not just how
they contribute to economic wealth

36. Sen 1999, 5
• “Neoliberal” framework
• “End of history”
• Democracy
• Free markets
• International trade

37. Sen 1999, 9
• Democracy vs. population control?