Bloom Again Cross-Mediterranean perspectives on the ecological transition Nature Addicts! Fund Academy 2017 Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD Researcher, Lecturer, School of Architecture | National Technical University of Athens [email protected]22—27 May Eleusis, Greece
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Bloom Again
Cross-Mediterranean perspectives on the ecological transition
Nature Addicts! Fund Academy 2017
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD Researcher, Lecturer, School of Architecture | National Technical University of Athens [email protected]
22—27 MayEleusis, Greece
URBAN RESILIENCE
URBAN RESILIENCE
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD Researcher, Lecturer, School of Architecture | National Technical University of Athens [email protected]
HABITAT IIIDRAFT NEW URBAN AGENDA
18 July 2016
The global context
Global Urban Population
1976: 37.9%
1996: 45.1%
2016: 54.5%
Cities take up 2% of the space but are responsible for:
70% of global economy
60% of energy consumption
70% of gas emissions responsible of climate change
70% of waste
Anthropocene
An urbanized planet
Source: From the exhibition Τhe City of 7 Billion: A Constructed World, School of Architecture, Yale, 11/2015. http://architecture.yale.edu
An urbanized planet
Source: From the exhibition Τhe City of 7 Billion: A Constructed World, School of Architecture, Yale, 11/2015. http://architecture.yale.edu
Ecological footprintOn a practical level, the Ecological Footprint shows us how carbon emissions compare and interact with other elements of human demand, such as our pressure on food sources, the quantity of living resources required to make the goods we consume, and the amount of land we take out of production when we pave it over to build cities and roads. The carbon Footprint is 54 percent of humanity’s overall Ecological Footprint and its most rapidly growing component. Humanity’s carbon Footprint has increased 11-fold since 1961.
Diagram showing the material changes during the course of its life the shell of which survives on average through seven generations (30Χ7=210), ένα διάστημα δηλαδή δύο αιώνων. (Source: McDonough & Braungart, Green Architecture for the Future, Exhibition catalog Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009).
Sustainability
Resilience
Sustainability
Preguntas sobre
(Birkeland 2002, 2008)
Sustainability
Sustainability is viewed by some as whole systems change
Now it is clearer that moving towards sustainability is more of a processthan a state of being. It is a social challenge that entails internationaland national law, urban planning and transport, local and individuallifestyles and ethical consumerism.
Sustainability was born as a concept in late twentieth century, to indicate the capacity of being maintained in existence without interruption or diminution
Sustainable development is a process for meeting human development goals while sustaining the ability of natural systems to continue to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depends.
Do you believe in Sustainable development?
Environmental
SocialEconomic
Political
Multiple levels of sustainability
Diagram: Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Sustainability may be understood through a complexity approach and as a characteristic of systems.
Sustainability theories COMPLEXITY
Development as we know it is unsustainable
Degrowth is an advocate against development and downscaling of production and consumption—the contraction of economies—arguing that overconsumption lies at the root of long term environmental issues and social inequalities.
Sustainability theories
Connecting the dots
Climate change
Consumer life stylesFossil fuel
based energy production
Linear Production methods
Economic models based on perpetual growth/ Capitalist
economy
Post-colonial geopolitical structures
Diagram: Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Political Ecology understands all environmental problems as essentially political problems. They can be explained as conflicts of power and control over resources.
Political ecology attempts to provide critiques as well as alternatives in the interplay of the environment and political, economic and social factors. Robbins asserts that the discipline has a “normative understanding that there are very likely better, less coercive, less exploitative, and more sustainable ways of doing things” (2012).
Sustainability theories
Source: Scientific American
People careFair share
Sustainability theories
A philosophy and practices of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.
Ecuador, as an Andean country, began to re-interpret human, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights based on a concept and vision of the world born in the ancient societies of the South American Andes region: Sumak Kawsay. P16
Sustainability theories
Buen Vivir
Objetive 1: “Consolidate the democratic state and the construction of popular powerObjetive 2: “Encourage equality, cohesion, inclusion and social and territorial equity in diversity ".Objetive 3:"Improve the quality of life of the population".Objetive 4:“Strengthen the capacities and the potential of citizens”.Objetive 5:“Build spaces for common meeting and strengthen national identity,
diverse identities, plurinationality and interculturality”.Objetive 6: “Consolidate the transformation of justice and strengthen integral
security, in strict respect for human rights”.Objetive 7: “Guarantee the rights of nature and promote territorial and global
environmental sustainability”.Objetive 8: Affirm and strengthen national identity, diverse identities, plurinationality and interculturalityObjetive 9:Guarantee the validity of rights and justiceObjetive 10: Ensure access to public and political participationObjetive 11: Establish a social, solidary and sustainable economic systemObjetive 12: Building a Democratic State which promotes the principles of Good Living
Resilience
The ability of a system to cope with change.
The power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
The ability to recover from illness, depression, adversity.
Resilience
New York (Steady) StateResearch project examining methodologies for turning New York into a closed system of resources (water, nutrition and energy management)(Source: Terreform/ http://www.terreform.info)