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Twelfth International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural, Economic
& Social Sustainability
Urban Sustainability – Inspiration and Solution
21-23 JANUARY 2016 | PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | PORTLAND, USA | ONSUSTAINABILITY.COM
Environmental, Cultural, Economic &
Social Sustainability
“Urban Sustainability – Inspiration and Solution”
Portland State University | Portland, USA | 21-23 January 2016
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Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability
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On Sustainability
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Dear Delegate,
Welcome to the Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability.
The On Sustainability Knowledge Community is an international conference, a cross-disciplinary scholarly journal, a
book imprint, and an online knowledge community, which, together, set out to describe, analyze, and interpret the role of
sustainability. These media are intended to provide spaces for careful, scholarly reflection and open dialogue. The bases of
this endeavour are cross-disciplinary. The community is brought together by a common concern for sustainability in a holistic
perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social concerns intersect.
In addition to the On Sustainability Conference, Common Ground also hosts conferences and publishes journals in other
areas of critical intellectual human concern, including health and wellness, social sciences, diversity, design, food studies, and
the humanities, to name several. Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and
also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are also committed to
creating a more accessible, open, and reliable peer review process.
Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for scholars from developing
countries and for researchers from institutions that are historically teaching-focused. We would like to invite conference
participants to develop publishing proposals for original works or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal,
which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter,
and subscribe to our Facebook or Twitter feeds at http://onsustainability.com/.
Thank you to everyone who has prepared for this conference, including our co-organizers and supporters, the Institute for
Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. A personal thank you and acknowledgement goes to Beth Lloyd-Pool, Tania
Hoode, and Douglas Kenck-Crispin who helped organize this year’s conference. I’d also like to thank my Common Ground
colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Stephanie Ebersohl, Tamsyn Gilbert, Patricija
Kirvaitis, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish. We also hope you will be able to join us at next year’s conference, co-hosted by
Niterói City Administration and the Center for Biomass and Water Management Studies (NAB), 19-21 January 2017, in Niterói
(Great Rio de Janeiro), Brazil.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from
around the corner and around the world.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
Director, Common Ground Publishing
| About Common Ground
Our Mission
Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that
knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative
software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse
media.
Our Message
Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and
country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities
that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the
nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the
university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations,
and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces
in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology,
geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and
imagination that our future deserves.
Our Media
Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual
conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics,
practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as
possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book imprint offer fullyrefereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission,
peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our
YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software,
Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and
disseminating text and multi-media works.
On Sustainability
Knowledge Community
Exploring sustainability in a holistic
perspective, where environmental,
cultural, economic, and social concerns
intersect
On Sustainability Knowledge Community
The On Sustainability Knowledge Community is brought together around a common concern for learning and an interest to
explore new educational possibilities. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well
as year-round online relationships, a family of peer reviewed journals, and book imprint—exploring the affordances of the
new digital media.
Conference
The On Sustainability Conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and
Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from
all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and
session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships
with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Publishing
The On Sustainability Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members
can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, nonhierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The On Sustainability Collection provides a framework
for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second
publication medium is through the book imprint, On Sustainability, publishing cutting edge books in print and digital
formats. Publication proposals and manuscript submissions are welcome.
Community
The On Sustainability Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members.
Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly
email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Join the
conversations on Facebook and Twitter. Or explore our new social media platform, Scholar.
On Sustainability Themes
Studies of sustainability,
with a focus on
environmental analyses
Theme 1: Environmental Sustainability
• The science and technology of environmental sustainability
• Ecosystemics
• Sustainable agriculture
• Urbanization and its consequences
• Ecological footprints and ecospaces
• Atmosphere and biosphere: global warming, the ozone layer, pollution
• Energy: renewable and not
• Water: sources and uses
• Land and sea, mountain and savannah, desert and wet zones, forests and coasts: variable impacts
on varied environments
• Biological diversity: its past and prospects
• Biotechnology and its critics
• Danger signs: rising sea levels, desertification, soil degradation
Studies of sustainability,
with a focus on sociocultural and economic
analyses
Theme 2: Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context
• One, two, three, four, how many ‘bottom lines’?
• The meaning of cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development
• Belonging and identity: their environmental, economic, and social significance
• Changing patterns and cultures of consumption
• Cosmopolis: local cultures, globalization, diaspora
• Women and men, children and the elderly, families and sustainability
• Cultural dimensions of childbearing and population growth
• Cultural tourism
• Indigenous peoples: self-government, self management, and cultural autonomy.
• Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of sustainability: broadening the scope of valid
knowledge
• The economics of environment, culture, and society
• What is economic value?
• Cultural, social, and environmental capital
• The economics of sustainability
• Needs, wants, and demand: reconfiguring the economic equation
• Business cases: the cost and value of sustainability
• Risks and risk management: where economy meets environment, culture, and society
• Free trade and fair trade
• Global flows: finance, trade, technology transfer, and debt
• Sustainable aid and aid for sustainability
• The dynamics of production and consumption
• Accountability: beyond financial years and bottom lines
• Measuring performance and reporting sustainability
• Organizations and corporations: defining the stakeholders and meeting their interests
• Development, underdevelopment, and sustainability
• Tourism and its impacts
On Sustainability Themes
• Sustainable and unsustainable transportation
• Well-being and quality of life: sources and strategies
• Gender and sustainability
• Poverty and its eradication
• Health in its environmental, cultural, economic, and social contexts
• Population growth and its consequences
• Wastes and waste management
• Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement
Addressing sustainability
agendas and the
practices flowing from
these in government,
corporate, and
community sectors
Theme 3: Sustainability Policy and Practice
• The politics of sustainability
• Global sustainability policies
• National sustainability policies and initiatives
• Sustainability in local government
• Corporate sustainability initiatives
• Community and NGO sustainability initiatives
• Measuring impacts: environmental assessment
• Bioethics
• Nature as intellectual and physical property
• Civic pluralism: multiculturalism and cultural sustainability
• Cultural and political liberalization: challenges and dangers
• The arts and creativity as a resource for sustainability
• Structures of ownership: private property, public property, and the commons
• Good citizenship in fragile environments, cultures, economies, societies
• Levels of governance: interactions of sustainability initiatives at local, regional, national, and
international levels
• Domains of responsibility: NGOs, corporations, persons
• The sources of sustainable innovation
• Planning for sustainability
• Capacity building in theory and practice
• Sustainability and community participation
• Managing ‘human resources’
On teaching and learning
about human relations
to the environment,
and raising community
awareness of
sustainability
Theme 4: Sustainability Education
• Environmental education in a time of ecosystemic crisis
• Teaching and learning sustainability: schools, universities, communities
• The media, public awareness, and community education on sustainability
• Education sustaining language and culture
• Public knowledge: the role of the media and government
• Natural and social sciences: taking an holistic view
• Researching sustainability
• Knowledge capacities: developing sustainability science and technology locally
On Sustainability 2016 Special Focus
Urban Sustainability: Inspiration and Solution
With more than 50% of the global population living in urban or urbanizing areas, developing and recognizing urban models of
sustainability have become imperative. In the search for solutions many urban centers struggle with the full inclusion of their
indigenous, immigrant, and marginalized populations in policy solutions and implementation. As we envision sustainable
development in cities and strive for livable futures, being intentional about inclusion is critical. A future with sustainable cities
requires initiatives that grow from the nexus of social, economic, cultural, and environmental research and policy development
and implementation.
On Sustainability Scope and Concerns
Four Fundamentals
Four foundations – four fundamentals – constitute a fourfold ‘bottom line’ for sustainability.
Environment: Nature is a dynamic thing in and of itself, and sometimes convulsively so. Humans are its beneficiaries and
at times its victims. They are also increasingly agents, interacting in and with natural processes. Over several millennia, the
human species has become one of the forces of nature, a critical part of its destiny, and ever more so today and tomorrow.
Perhaps even, the human species may be a catalyst in another convulsion in the course of natural history. As nature more and
more becomes an object of human artifice, its prospects move to the forefront of human consciousness. ‘What have we done
with nature?’ we may well ask ourselves. What have been the forms and effects of our interventions? What are the implications
of our newfound species-role as a force of nature, and what the responsibilities that accompany this role? How can we create a
viable home for ourselves alongside the other lifeforms of the planet?
Culture: This is the stuff of our human natures, our subjectivities, our shared meanings and our memories. Culture is the
glue of similarity (‘identity,’ literally) that grounds our sociability. It is also a matter of difference or cultures in the plural, the
multilayered combinations of which form persons in the plural: ways of seeing, ways of thinking, ways of meaning, ways of
relating to each other, ways of connecting with nature. The challenge of culture is as much to forge a productive diversity for
the human species (ethnos, gender, ecosystemics) as it is to nurture the sources of cohesion and commonality.
Economy: Here we consider the dynamics of our material life, where, in our social relations and using our tools, we mix
our energies with the natural world to meet our human needs. The challenge is to create economic systems which are
environmentally viable, not destroying or damaging our life sources as natural beings. Such systems also need to be culturally
viable, not harming our identities and ultimately what is humane in our natures. And they need to be socially viable, not
creating destructive tensions and unsustainable injustices around axes in inequality of access to material and social resources.
Society: To these perspectives we need to add our systems of regulation, governance, and resource distribution. What allows
for all our participation as autonomous yet social beings? What makes for good citizenship? How do we create, manage,
and propagate knowledge? How do we ensure justice? How do we integrate the four fundamentals of environment, culture,
economy, and society so we can address our human futures and live to the full our human potentials?
This knowledge community attempts to locate what is experienced here and now in the context of longer, broader, and deeper
views of the four fundamentals of sustainability.
Longer Views
How do we understand longer views of sustainability?
On a length dimension, we may wish to question the now-ness of our interests and actions: organizations which measure
performance in solely in terms financial years; consumers who measure well-being in terms of instant gratification; and
communities which compromise future generations by satisfying their wants in the present. Of course, we need to live in
the here and now, but that living is limited if it is purely for the here and the now and so prejudices environment, culture,
economy, or society in the longer view.
On Sustainability Scope and Concerns
Broader Views
How do interests and actions shape views of sustainability?
On a breadth dimension, we may need to question the here-ness of our interests and actions: acting locally without thinking
globally; living personally without knowing politically; living in our cultures but sensitive to the diversity of others; operating
to narrow economic or social goals without taking into account their ecosystemic sources and effects.
Deeper Views
Who are the participants?
On a depth dimension, we may question the this-ness of our interests: what we feel in our everyday lifeworlds in relation to
deep and less immediately tangible social, economic, and ecological structures; our individual and corporate motivations in
relation to human and ecological values; monetary value in relation to human value; the hidden hand of personal self interest
as opposed to the conscious hand of good governance, responsible citizenship, and the values of caring for nature and each
other
This knowledge community provides a forum for discussion of the connections between environment, culture, economy, and
society. The perspectives presented range from big picture analyses which address global and universal concerns, to detailed
case studies which speak of localized applications of the principles and practices of sustainability. Conference presentations
and publications traverse a broad terrain, sometimes technically and other times socially oriented, sometimes theoretical and
other times practical in their perspective, and sometimes reflecting dispassionate analysis whilst at other times suggesting
interested strategies for action.
On Sustainability Community Membership
About
The On Sustainability Knowledge Community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars,
researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society
at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the On Sustainability Knowledge Community brings
an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice,
policy, and teaching.
Membership Benefits
As an On Sustainability Knowledge Community member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your
own work:
• Digital subscription to the On Sustainability Collection for one year.
• Digital subscription to the book imprint for one year.
• One article publication per year (pending peer review).
• Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as an Associate Editor after
reviewing three or more articles.
• Subscription to the community e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the knowledge
community.
• Option to add a video presentation to the community YouTube channel.
• Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including:
◊ Personal profile and publication portfolio page
◊ Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media
◊ Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter
◊ Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes—for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student
writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work.
On Sustainability Engage in the Community
Present and Participate in the Conference
You have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting
your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a
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valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and
collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with community colleagues that will
continue well into the future.
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Publish Journal Articles or Books
We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the journal. In this way,
you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of
the community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others’ work and
contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your
active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and
previous volumes) of the journal and to the book imprint. We also invite you to consider submitting a
proposal for the book imprint.
Engage through Social Media
There are several ways to connect and network with community colleagues:
Email Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and
publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a
subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected].
Scholar: Common Ground’s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from
around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of
knowledge works.
Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of
special benefits for community members at: http://www.facebook.com/OnSustainability.CG.
Twitter: Follow the community @onsustainabilit and talk about the conference with
#CGSustain.
YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http:/
/commongroundpublishing.com/support/uploading-your-presentation-to-youtube.
On Sustainability Advisory Board
The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of the On Sustainability Knowledge
Community and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the field. Board members are
invited to attend the annual conference and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for
speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to
On Sustainability Journal Collection as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to the On Sustainability Book Imprint.
We are grateful for the continued service and support of the following world-class scholars and practitioners.
• Dang Van Bai, Ministry of Culture and Information, Vietnam
• Michael Cameron, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Richard M. Clugston, University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, Washington, D.C., USA
• John Dryzek, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• Steven Engelsman, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands
• John Fien, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Amareswar Galla, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia (Founding Chair, Editor)
• Suzanne Grant, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Steve Hamnett, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
• Olaf Gerlach Hansen, Danish Cultural Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Charles Hopkins, York University, Toronto, Canada
• David Humphreys, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (Current Chair, Editor)
• Lily Kong, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Jim McAllister, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
• Helena Norberg-Hodge, The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), United Kingdom
• Peter Phipps, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Spencer S. Stober, Alvernia University, Reading ,USA
• Douglas Worts, Toronto, Canada
• Lyuba Zarsky, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Monterey, California, USA
A Social Knowledge Platform
Create Your Academic Profile and Connect to Peers
Developed by our brilliant Common Ground software team, Scholar connects academic peers from around the world in a
space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.
Utilize Your Free Scholar Membership Today through
• Building your academic profile and list of published works.
• Joining a community with a thematic or disciplinary focus.
• Establishing a new knowledge community relevant to your field.
• Creating new academic work in our innovative publishing space.
• Building a peer review network around your work or courses.
Scholar Quick Start Guide
1. Navigate to http://cgscholar.com. Select [Sign Up] below ‘Create an Account’.
2. Enter a “blip” (a very brief one-sentence description of yourself).
3. Click on the “Find and join communities” link located under the YOUR COMMUNITIES heading (On the left hand
navigation bar).
4. Search for a community to join or create your own.
Scholar Next Steps – Build Your Academic Profile
• About: Include information about yourself, including a linked CV in the top, dark blue bar.
• Interests: Create searchable information so others with similar interests can locate you.
• Peers: Invite others to connect as a peer and keep up with their work.
• Shares: Make your page a comprehensive portfolio of your work by adding publications in the Shares area - be these
full text copies of works in cases where you have permission, or a link to a bookstore, library or publisher listing. If you
choose Common Ground’s hybrid open access option, you may post the final version of your work here, available to
anyone on the web if you select the ‘make my site public’ option.
• Image: Add a photograph of yourself to this page; hover over the avatar and click the pencil/edit icon to select.
• Publisher: All Common Ground community members have free access to our peer review space for their courses. Here
they can arrange for students to write multimodal essays or reports in the Creator space (including image, video, audio,
dataset or any other file), manage student peer review, co-ordinate assessments, and share students’ works by publishing
them to the Community space.
A Digital Learning Platform
Use Scholar to Support Your Teaching
Scholar is a social knowledge platform that transforms the patterns of interaction in learning by putting students first,
positioning them as knowledge producers instead of passive knowledge consumers. Scholar provides scaffolding to
encourage making and sharing knowledge drawing from multiple sources rather than memorizing knowledge that has been
presented to them.
Scholar also answers one of the most fundamental questions students and instructors have of their performance, “How
am I doing?” Typical modes of assessment often answer this question either too late to matter or in a way that is not clear or
comprehensive enough to meaningfully contribute to better performance.
A collaborative research and development project between Common Ground and the College of Education at the University
of Illinois, Scholar contains a knowledge community space, a multimedia web writing space, a formative assessment
environment that facilitates peer review, and a dashboard with aggregated machine and human formative and summative
writing assessment data.
The following Scholar features are only available to Common Ground Knowledge Community members as part of their
membership. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like the complimentary educator account that comes
with participation in a Common Ground conference.
• Create projects for groups of students, involving draft, peer review, revision, and publication.
• Publish student works to each student’s personal portfolio space, accessible through the web for class discussion.
• Create and distribute surveys.
• Evaluate student work using a variety of measures in the assessment dashboard.
Scholar is a generation beyond learning management systems. It is what we term a Digital Learning Platform—
it transforms learning by engaging students in powerfully horizontal “social knowledge” relationships. For more
information, visit: http://knowledge.cgscholar.com.
On Sustainability
Collection
Aiming to create an intellectual frame
of reference for interdisciplinary
conversations presenting innovative
theories and practices of sustainability
On Sustainability Collection of Journals
About
The On Sustainability Collection creates a place for the publication of papers presenting innovative
theories and practices of sustainability. The journals in this collection are cross-disciplinary in their
Indexing
scope, a meeting point for natural and social scientists, researchers and practitioners, professionals,
Cabell’s
Scopus
Sustainability Reference
Center
The Australian Research
Council (ERA)
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
and community representatives.
Founded:
dispassionate analysis whilst at other times suggesting interested strategies for action.
Publication Frequency:
Collection Editor
2005
Quarterly (March, June,
September, December)
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The perspectives presented range from big picture analyses which address global and universal
concerns, to detailed case studies which speak of localised applications of the principles and practices
of sustainability. The papers traverse a broad terrain, sometimes technically and other times socially
oriented, sometimes theoretical and other times practical in their perspective, and sometimes reflecting
David Humphreys, Reader, Environmental Policy, The Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK
Associate Editors
Articles published in the On Sustainability Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active
members of the On Sustainability Knowledge Community. Reviewers may be past or present
conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review
papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the
knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation
system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to
refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise.
In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers
are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus,
in addition to the On Sustainability Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors
contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection.
On Sustainability Collection Titles
The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and
Social Sustainability: Annual Review
ISSN: 1832-2077
Indexing: Cabell’s, Scopus, Sustainability Reference Center, The Australian Research Council (ERA),
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
About: The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability:
Annual Review creates a place for the publication of papers presenting innovative theories and
practices of sustainability. The annual review consists only of articles considered to be of wide interest
across the field, selected by our editorial team. We do not accept direct submissions to the annual
review. Candidates for inclusion in this survey journal include works by invited contributors and topranked articles selected from thematic journal submissions for their wide applicability and interest.
The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability
ISSN: 2325-1077 (print) | 2325-1085 (online)
Indexing: Cabell’s, Environment Complete, Environment Index, Scopus, Sustainability Reference
Center, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
About: The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability focuses on sustainable
ecosystems, urban environments, agriculture, energy systems, water use, atmospheric quality, and
biodiversity.
The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice
Indexing: Cabell’s, Scopus, Sustainability Reference Center, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
About: The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice addresses sustainability
agendas and the practices flowing from these in government, corporate, and community sectors.
The International Journal of Sustainability Education
Indexing: Cabell’s, Education Source, Scopus, Sustainability Reference Center, Ulrich’s Periodicals
Directory
About: The International Journal of Sustainability Education explores teaching and learning about
human relations to the environment.
The International Journal of Sustainability in Economic, Social, and
Cultural Context
ISSN: 2325-1115 (print) | 2325-114X (online)
Indexing: Cabell’s, Scopus, SocINDEX, Sociology Source International, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
About: The International Journal of Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context invites
research on sustainability practices, including documentation of case studies and exegeses analyzing
the effects of these practices.
On Sustainability Submission Process
Journal Collection Submission Process and Timeline
Below, please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process:
1. Submit a conference presentation proposal.
2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the “Add a
Paper” button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the
final submission deadlines. (See dates below)
3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these
requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees
and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www.
CGPublisher.com.
4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees’ identities have been removed, you will be notified by
email and provided with a link to view the reports.
5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your
article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission,
explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it
once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees.
6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing
Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago
Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees.
After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval
before publication.
7. Individual articles may be published “Web First” with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All
issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).
Submission Timeline
You may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines
are as follows:
• Submission Round 1 – 15 January
• Submission Round 2 – 15 April
• Submission Round 3 – 15 July
• Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October
Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year’s volume.
The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish “Web First,” early
submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full
issue is published.
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subscription to the entire On Sustainability Collection. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to both
the current volume of the collection as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time
of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal
subscription.
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Call for Books
Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other
publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in
the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a
small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too,
but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.
We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
• Individually and jointly authored books
• Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme
• Collections of articles published in our journals
• Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions
Book Proposal Guidelines
Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic
formats and are available through Amazon and as Kindle editions. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including:
• Title
• Author(s)/editor(s)
• Draft back-cover blurb
• Author bio note(s)
• Table of contents
• Intended audience and significance of contribution
• Sample chapters or complete manuscript
• Manuscript submission date
Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected]. Please note the book imprint to which you
are submitting in the subject line.
Call for Book Reviewers
Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts.
As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts
that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The
comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication
process.
Common Ground recognizes the important role of reviewers by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Editorial
Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website.
If you would like to review book manuscripts, please send an email to [email protected] with:
• A brief description of your professional credentials
• A list of your areas of interest and expertise
• A copy of your CV with current contact details
If we feel that you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.
The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Social Analysis and
Assessment
Joy Murray, Darian McBain, and Thomas Wiedmann (eds.)
A welcome addition to the “Sustainability Practitioners Guide” series, this book gathers together
progress that has been made in analysing, assessing, and reporting social issues. Approachable for
experts and non-experts alike and written in a characteristic ‘easy to understand style,’ this edited
volume presents complex concepts with clarity. The comprehensive selection of topics, which includes
such indicators as labour conditions, inequality, food security, and even sleep, is bound to present
something of relevance and interest to a wide variety of readers.
Angela Druckman,
Centre of Environmental Strategy
University of Surrey
ISBN—978-1-61229-812-2
239 Pages
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Joy Murray is a senior research fellow with the Integrated Sustainability Analysis group in the School
Darian McBain is the global director of sustainable development for the Thai Union Group, and an
adjunct senior lecturer to the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group at the University
of Sydney.
Thomas Wiedmann is associate professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at UNSW Australia, Sydney.
Posthuman Plants:
Rethinking the Vegetal through Culture, Art, and Poetry
John Charles Ryan
Our interdependence with plants entails symbiosis that is not only biological but also cultural, social,
and linguistic. Posthuman Plants addresses our diverse entanglements with plants in everyday life
through the prisms of posthumanist, multispecies, ecocritical, and ecocultural theory. This volume
asks: how does the reconfiguration of human “being” as inherently permeable affect our perceptions
of and relationships to plants—those “others” that have been regarded historically as passive elements
of the landscape and constructed as the mute foils of animality? This book contributes to the everincreasing debate about how we perceive plants and their influence on what it means to be human,
more-than-human, and other-than-human. It argues that reconceptualizing the botanical world
requires seeing, feeling, and understanding plants as intelligent, active, and sentient agents.
ISBN—978-1-61229-822-1
Posthuman Plants is divided into five sections: Affect and Reciprocity, Heritage and Digitality, Art and
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Vegetality, Poetry and Vegetality, and Plants and the Senses. Although some of its content is strongly
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focused on the vegetal life of the southwest of Australia where the author resides, other countries,
diverse subjects, all organized around the common strand of rethinking plants through culture, art, and
poetry. In re-imagining the vegetal, Posthuman Plants draws from ethnographic, auto-ethnographic,
historical, and literary sources and develops plant-based theoretical models that blur disciplinary
boundaries. This broadly ranging work will be of interest to international audiences, especially
researchers in the fields of environmental studies and ecological humanities.
Author Bio:
John Charles Ryan is a postdoctoral research fellow in Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan
University in Australia. He is the author of Green Sense (2012), Two with Nature (2012, with Ellen
Hickman), Unbraided Lines (2013), Digital Arts (2014, with Cat Hope), and Being With (2014). He is
the co-editor of two forthcoming collections in the field of critical plant studies: Green Thread (2015)
and The Language of Plants (2016) with Patrícia Vieira and Monica Gagliano. His interests include the
environmental humanities, ecocriticism, ecocultural studies, ecopoetics, and practice-led research. His
project FloraCultures is a digital archive of plant-based cultural heritage (www.floracultures.org.au).
Valuing the First Voice of Pacific Women:
Gender and Development in Small Island Developing States
Cathryn Morriss
Valuing the First Voice of Pacific Women is a valuable publication providing the intellectual and
political framework for analysing and understanding regional intergovernmental policy development.
It has elucidated a strong standpoint that the voices of Pacific Islander women are critical in any
governance framework to ensure measurable and sustainable outcomes in all forms of development.
This book is about people and how the experience of people can contribute to the making of policy and
processes that advances their living standards, creates new opportunities for inclusiveness, and ensures
that the rights and well-being of people are respected and indeed honoured. It is about women, and in
particular, it is about Pacific Islander women’s experiences of inclusion or exclusion in regional policymaking processes.
ISBN—978-1-61229-722-4
255 Pages
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The future Sustainable Development Goals and the UN post 2015 Development Agenda must take a
more integrated approach to the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States, with the
support of the international community and all stakeholders. In doing so, gender equity must be an
outcome that is driven by the First Voice of women in the Pacific.
Author Bio:
Dr. Cate Morriss is a researcher, writer, and educator with a professional background in the fields
of peace and conflict, sociology, Pacific Island politics, international security, international community
development, international politics, feminist theory, and gender studies. Cate also works as an
independent consultant facilitating advanced workshops on gender inclusive peacebuilding, education,
and community development. Previous works include Gender and Inclusive Education: Managing
the Education Environment (2011), Gender Inclusive Approaches to Peacebuilding: NGO Handbook
for staff training (2008) and Feminist Theory in International Relations: A workbook and resources
manual for NGO training (2008).
Ecopragmatics
Edward T. Wimberley and Scott Pellegrino
In an era when environmental policy discussions have become increasingly rancorous and balkanized,
Ecopragmatics provides a framework for addressing seemingly intransigent environmental issues
by relying upon a method of pragmatic analysis and inquiry grounded in the ideas of William James
and John Dewey. This approach eschews ideological posturing in favor of a consequentialist approach
wherein reasonable and shared solutions to environmental problems are pursued on the basis of
their perceived value to the community and in regard to natural environments and ecosystems. This
approach incorporates a communitarian perspective to promote an atmosphere of collaboration by
discerning the motivational factors informing the decisions of key stakeholders and subsequently
framing policy issues to encourage compromise and ongoing partnership. In so doing, Ecopragmatics
presents a series of conceptual chapters followed by original case studies illustrating how ecopragmatic
principles can empower decision makers to not only imagine possible policy options but to actually
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animate those ideas within their imagination to derive the potential worth of each option—what we
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call “imaginating.”
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University in Fort Myers, FL and the author of Nested Ecology (2009).
Edward T. “Terry” Wimberley, PhD is professor of ecological studies at Florida Gulf Coast
Scott Pellegrino, MA is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Fife,
Scotland.
Transitions to Sustainability:
Theoretical Debates for a Changing Planet
David Humphreys and Spencer S. Stober (eds.)
By the turn of the millennium the evidence that humans were changing the biosphere was
manifested through a number of disturbing trends, including climate change, ozone depletion, global
deforestation, coral bleaching, biodiversity loss, increased incidences of drought, and rising levels of
atmospheric and marine pollution. These changes, some of which are irreversible, have given rise to
the concept of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which humans are the dominant force for
planetary change. We are the first generation to realize the enormity of the changes that humans are
wreaking on the global biosphere, and in all likelihood we are the last generation with the opportunity
to do something about it. Yet traditional policies are failing to respond to the challenge of reversing
global environmental decline at the very historical moment when the need for action is most urgent.
The profound changes that we are living through and the need to find new and innovative responses
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to global environmental degradation present a pressing theoretical and conceptual challenge for both
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practitioners and scholars of sustainability. This book aims to respond to that challenge.
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business, art, rights, and citizenship. The chapters—empirically rich and critically guided—are
written by leading scholars from around the world. The book makes a vital contribution to debates on
sustainability and will prove essential reading for anyone who is concerned about global environmental
change and our options for addressing it.
Editor Bios:
David Humphreys is reader in environmental policy and social sciences programme director at The
Open University in the UK where he specializes in environmental politics and policy.
Spencer S. Stober is a professor of biology and leadership studies at Alvernia University in the US.
His research interests are diverse and include ecosystem change, genetic technologies, the intersection
of religion and science, and nature-centered leadership.
On Sustainability
Conference
Curating global interdisciplinary
spaces, supporting professionally
rewarding relationships
On Sustainability About the Conference
Conference History
Founded in 2005, the International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability provides a
multidisciplinary space, spanning the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and
related questions of sustainability, brought together by a common concern for sustainability in an holistic perspective, where
environmental, cultural, economic, and social concerns intersect. The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability is built upon four key features:
Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well
as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines
and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to
discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Past Conferences
• 2005 - University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Island of Oahu, Hawai’i, USA
• 2006 - Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
• 2007 - University of Madras, Chennai, India
• 2008 - Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
• 2009 - University of Technology, Mauritius
• 2010 - University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
• 2011 - University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
• 2012 - UBC Robeson Square, Vancouver, Canada
• 2013 - International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan
• 2014 - University of Split, Split, Croatia
• 2015 - Scandic Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2016 - Portland State University, Portland, USA
Plenary Speaker Highlights
The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability has a rich history of featuring
leading and emerging voices from the field, including:
• Junko Edahiro, Japan for Sustainability, Tokyo, Japan (2013)
• Steve Gough, University of Bath, Bath, UK (2007)
• Hans-Martin Hinz, International Council of Museums (ICOM) (2006)
• Charles Hopkins, York University, Toronto, Canada (2012)
• Katherine Morton, Australian National University (2007)
• Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Society for Ecology and Culture, UK (2005)
• William E. Rees, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2013)
• Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, India (2006)
• Lawrence Surendra Madras University (2007)
• Linda Te Aho, University of Waikato (2011)
Past Partners
Over the years the International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability has had the
pleasure of working with the following organizations:
Cultural Development Network,
Hanoi University,
Hawke Research Institute,
Melbourne, Australia (2005)
Hanoi, Vietnam (2006)
University of South Australia,
Adelaide, Australia (2007-2009)
Japan for Sustainability,
Portland State University,
RMIT,
The Australian National University,
Tokyo, Japan (2013)
Portland, USA (2015)
Melbourne, Australia
Canberra, Australia (2006)
(2005-2010)
The Globalization Research Center,
UNESCO Ha Long Bay World
UNESCO Hanoi Office,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Heritage Area, Vietnam (2006)
Vietnam (2006)
Honolulu, Hawai'i (2005)
University of Madras,
University of Split,
University of Technology, Mauritius,
Chennai, India (2007)
Split, Croatia (2014)
Mauritius (2008)
Conference Principles and Features
The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:
International
This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and
locations. But more importantly, the On Sustainability Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with
scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 30 countries are in attendance, offering a
unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.
Interdisciplinary
Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together
researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns
of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded,
and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.
Inclusive
Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless
of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher,
policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that
is created and shared by this community.
Interactive
To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there
must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured,
are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities.
On Sustainability Ways of Speaking
Plenary
Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics
of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled
into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions
or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in
informal, extended discussions during their Garden Conversation.
Garden Conversation
Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet
plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When
the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.
Talking Circles
Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other
delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic
areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost
importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common
ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face
in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation.
When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group
to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference
experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions
during the Closing Session.
Themed Paper Presentations
Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four
presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twentyminute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session
Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each
presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.
Colloquium
Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions
of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by
commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the
journal based on the content of a colloquium session.
On Sustainability Ways of Speaking
Focused Discussion
For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation,
these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and
a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified
area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the
program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate
and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused
discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.
Workshop/Interactive Session
Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea
or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged
conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single
article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.
Poster Sessions
Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to
visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about
the work with interested delegates throughout the session.
On Sustainability Daily Schedule
Thursday, 21 January
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open
9:00–9:20
Conference Welcome—Welcome to Our Land: Cornell Pewewardy; Welcome to Our City: Michael
Armstrong; Welcome to Our University: President Wim Wiewel
9:20–9:40 Conference Opening—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Director, Common Ground Publishing, USA
9:40–10:15
Plenary Session — Carlton Eley, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., USA
Equitable Development: Social Equity by Design
10:15–10:45 Garden Conversation Featuring Carlton Eley and Coffee Break
10:45–10:55 Transition Break
10:55–11:45 Talking Circles
11:45–12:45 Lunch
12:45–14:25 Parallel Sessions
14:25–14:40 Coffee Break
16:20–17:20 Conference Welcome Reception
Friday, 22 January
8:30–8:45 Daily Update
8:45–9:15 Publishing Your Article or Book with Common Ground
Plenary Session—Veronica Dujon, Higher Education Coordination Commission Office of University
9:15–9:50
Coordination, State of Oregon, Portland, USA
Globalization and Contests over Natural Resources: Defining Social Sustainability at Local, Regional,
and International Scales
9:50–10:20 Garden Conversation Featuring Veronica Dujon and Coffee Break
11:45–12:45 Lunch
12:45–13:30 Parallel Sessions—Focused Discussions, Poster Session, and Workshops
13:30–13:45 Break
15:25–15:40 Coffee Break
18:00–19:30 Conference Dinner—Visit the Conference Registration Desk for more information
On Sustainability Daily Schedule
Saturday, 23 January
9:00–9:15 Daily Update
Plenary Session—Jennifer Allen, Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, Portland,
9:15–9:50 USA
Bridging Our Differences: Engaging Diverse Partners to Advance Sustainable Solutions
9:50–10:20 Garden Conversation Featuring Jennifer Allen and Coffee Break
12:10–13:10 Lunch
14:50–15:05 Break
16:45–17:15 Special Event—Conference Closing and Award Ceremony
On Sustainability Conference Highlights
Conference Tour
Best of Portland Walking Tour
Wednesday, 20 January | 10:00–12:30
Attendees will discover Portland the green and eco-friendly way while meeting and conversing with fellow delegates. This
award-winning walk clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live. Tour-goers will hear about
early and modern Portland as the guide shows you through an enlightened city rich with artwork, parks, bridges, downtown
trains and streetcars, fountains, and friendly people.
Welcome Reception
Thursday, 21 January | 16:20–17:20
On Thursday, 21 January the On Sustainability Conference and Common Ground Publishing will host a welcome reception
at the conference venue after the last session of the day. Join delegates and plenaries for drinks, light hors d’oeuvres, and a
chance to converse!
Conference Dinner
Friday, 22 January | 18:00–20:00
On Friday, 22 January at 6:00 p.m. the On Sustainability Conference and Common Ground Publishing will host a conference
dinner at the Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center at Ecotrust. Delegates can enjoy an evening of conversation and a delicious,
sustainable, locally sourced buffet dinner crafted by Artemis Foods at this iconic conference center, a Portland landmark
situated in the heart of the Pearl district and named after the River Revolutionary of Salmon Country.
For more information or to inquire about availability, please visit the Conference Registration Desk.
Conference Tour
Beyond Bizarre Ghost Tour
Saturday, 23 January | 19:00–21:30
On Saturday, 23 January at 7:00 p.m., if you like the paranormal, weird, or wacky, let certified members of the International
Ghost Hunters Society guide you on an evening of adventure. At the start of the tour you will be handed real ghost hunting
equipment just like that used by professionals and on TV. Then, set out visiting ghostly places and getting behind the scenes
into what hauntings are all about.
For more information or to inquire about availability, please visit the Conference Registration Desk.
On Sustainability Plenary Speakers
Jennifer H. Allen
Bridging Our Differences: Engaging Diverse Partners to Advance Sustainable Solutions
Jennifer Allen provides strategic direction and oversight for all of ISS’ initiatives and programs. She works
closely with staff and other members of the PSU community to ensure sustainability programs have the greatest
possible impact for students, faculty, and community partners. As an associate professor in the Hatfield School of
Government, Jennifer also teaches graduate courses in environmental and natural resource policy. She holds a
PhD in Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University, a Master of Environmental Management
from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Yale University.
Veronica Dujon
Globalization and Contests over Natural Resources: Defining Social Sustainability at Local,
Regional, and International Scales
Veronica Dujon is the Director for Academic Planning and Policy for the Higher Education Coordination
Commission Office of University Coordination. In this capacity, she leads the Commission’s efforts to coordinate
academic programs, degree pathways, and student success initiatives among Oregon’s public universities. As a
scholar, she conducts research on and publishes in the areas of environmental sociology with a focus on conflicts
over declining natural resources; the impact of globalization on people’s well-being; the role of women in the global economy;
and the tensions between national development strategies and forces of globalization. Among her major research interest areas
are 1) how to build sustainable societies that are inclusive of all people and in which people thrive, and 2) the use of ecosystem
services in rapidly urbanizing areas. Among her publications are two edited volumes: Understanding the Dimensions of Social
Sustainability (2009) with colleagues Prof. Mary King and Jesse Dillard, and Social Sustainability: A Multilevel Approach to
Social Inclusion (2013), Jesse Dillard and Eileen Brennan. She is a three-time winner of the John Eliot Allen Teaching Award.
In 2005 she was nominated for the US Professor of the Year Award. In 2008 Prof. Dujon received the PSU Distinguished
Faculty Award.
On Sustainability Plenary Speakers
Carlton Eley
Equitable Development: Social Equity by Design
Carlton Eley is an environmentalist, urban planner, and lecturer. He has ten years’ experience advancing projects
targeting environmental justice and sustainable urban policy, and he is US EPA’s leading expert on the topic of
equitable development. Carlton is credited for elevating equitable development to the level of formal recognition
within US EPA as an approach for encouraging sustainable communities. He has coordinated national
competitions that recognize communities for encouraging equitable development, and he has published multiple articles as
well as blogs on the subject. He nominated South Carolina State Representative Harold Mitchell, Jr. and the ReGenesis Project
for the 2015 National Planning Excellence Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change (in Honor of Paul Davidoff).
Carlton was selected by Fulbright New Zealand for participating in the Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellowship in Public Policy.
He is the first American to conduct research on the topic of smart growth in New Zealand. Following the fellowship, Carlton
wrote a chapter on Wellington, New Zealand, for the book Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World.
Carlton has served on community advisory service teams for Pamlico County, North Carolina; Gary, Indiana; Birmingham,
Alabama; and the Vecht River Valley in the Netherlands. Carlton’s work has been commended by the Ford Foundation, the
National Charrette Institute, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His technical assistance work and public
engagement efforts have earned citations from the American Planning Association and the National Organization of Minority
Architects. Carlton is the editor of the e-newsletter ‘Urban Leader 2.0’. He has a BA in Sociology/Social Work Curriculum from
Elizabeth City State University and a MS in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa.
On Sustainability Graduate Scholar Awardees
Ryan Bender
Ryan Elizabeth Bender, MSW, is currently a PhD Student in the School of Social Work at Portland State
University. Ms. Bender has a long history working with community-based organizations addressing educational,
housing, and health care inequalities. Her research centers around social determinants of health, emphasizing
family-centered diabetes care management and family dynamics as well as community-based participatory
approaches developing community leadership and self-efficacy. She is a member of the Community Partnership for Health and
Equity (CPHE), which supports community-driven research projects investigating the problems and priorities of
neighborhoods affected by health inequities and serious health conditions.
Christopher Burkett
Christopher Ashley Burkett is a PhD candidate in the Social Work and Social Research program at Portland State
University. He has extensive research, practice, and teaching experience throughout New Jersey, New York,
Michigan, and Oregon. His research agenda involves the countless socio-cultural and economic factors that
determine the mental health (help seeking) experiences of Black American children residing in urban places. He
is interested in using arts-based qualitative methods to collect and construct their culturally salient narratives.
Scott Ellis
Scott Ellis is currently in the third year of his EdD at Newcastle University in which he is focusing on the use of
social structures and critical pedagogy as frameworks from which to help improve the safety and educational
experience of gay male students in higher education in relation to suicide prevention. Scott works in a research
and teaching role at the University of East London, in which he has worked to improve the educational outcomes
of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Currently seeking accreditation from the American Society of Suicidology, Scott
was also recently awarded a fellowship from the UK-based Higher Education Academy and hopes to continue working toward
understanding the university experience of gay students and the emerging strategies of gay-straight alliances as a new popular
discourse and strategy to prevent self-harm. Scott’s professional and early research background is in promoting positive sexual
health and HIV prevention amongst young people and he is exploring the links between this area and the focus of his EdD.
Felipe de Souza Ferreira
Felipe hails from Brasilia, Brazil. He is a firm believer that education, particularly popular education, is a
powerful tool for positive social transformation and it is for this reason that he is currently pursuing a master’s
degree in Education, Leadership, and Policy, with an emphasis on Leadership for Sustainability Education, and a
graduate certificate in Gender, Race, and Nations. He is currently developing a framework titled Critical
Sustainability Studies that examines the intersections between place and social justice. He hopes to pursue a PhD in the next
couple of years and continue to promote critical sustainability in academia and beyond. On Sustainability Graduate Scholar Awardees
Jess Gerrior
Jess Gerrior is the PhD Fellow/Project Director of C&S Workplace Organic Gardens, a partnership of Antioch
University New England and C&S Wholesale Grocers. Her research interests combine sustainable and just local
food systems with higher education leadership and pedagogy, areas in which Jess has served as a board chair,
sustainability coordinator, educator, and volunteer. From education for resilience and the social ecology of food
to participatory action and arts-based research, Jess sees community food system collaborations as one of many entry points
into the larger transformative work of aligning higher education with sustainable development goals. Jam Shahzaib Khan
Jam Shahzaib Khan is currently a PhD scholar at the University of Mississippi majoring in civil engineering. He
has been working on sustainable infrastructure and sustainable development. Mr. Khan has achieved the Faculty
Development Scholarship Award from Quaid e Awam University of Sindh, Pakistan, and finished his master’s in
the United Kingdom. He has presented his technical research papers in conferences and published several in
international journals in Poland, Argentina, and Pakistan. Recently he has been elected senator at the University of
Mississippi.
Alex Moyem Kombat
Alex Moyem Kombat is currently a PhD candidate at the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), CottbusSenftemberg, Germany. His PhD research focuses on environmental taxation in Ghana. He holds an MSc from
BTU, Cottbus-Senftemberg, a BA (Hons) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi,
in Ghana, and a Diploma in Taxation from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public AdministrationGhana. He is a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship holder and a member of the Alumni Network for Sub-Saharan
Africa.
Matthew Lunde
Matthew Lunde is a second-year marketing and sustainable business practices PhD student at the University of
Wyoming. He has a background in marketing, management, architecture, and sustainability. He holds a Master
of Business Administration degree and a Master of Architecture degree, both with an emphasis in sustainability
from North Dakota State University. Additionally, Matthew is a LEED-AP+BD&C under the United States Green
Building Council (USGBC). Matthew’s research uses mostly survey and qualitative methods, focusing on sustainable
marketing and management practices, social marketing and public policy concerns, business ethics, sustainable decisionmaking, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and sustainable design.
Nazan Madak
Nazan Madak is a master student of the international business department at Anadolu University, in Eskişehir,
Turkey. At present she is working on a study dealing with environmental standards. The aim of the study is to
teach and inform future managers—currently university students—about environmental standards that have
become worldwide-recognized universal business standards. Her thesis was awarded a scholarship from the
Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and it has been given a status of a scientific research project by Anadolu
University. Nazan completed her undergraduate education in 2012 in the business administration department at Anadolu
University. As an environmentalist, she has taken an active role in tree-planting projects such as CCI Greenheart WT-Outreach
On Sustainability Graduate Scholar Awardees
and Erasmus Forest in Eskişehir. She also served as a volunteer student of the Green Business 2014 Conference in Istanbul.
Rhen Miles
Rhen is from the deserts of New Mexico and began her journey in advocacy at PCC’s Sylvania Women’s Resource
Center, during her first years in college. She completed her MSW and is now working towards her PhD at PSU.
Rhen’s work includes understanding and improving the contexts that influence youth development, focusing on
equity and social justice, and integrating participatory practice and research methods to support youth in actively
changing the environments that affect them. When she is not conducting evaluation and research with schools and youth
serving organizations, you can find her teaching undergraduate students at PSU or training in the Circus Arts.
Anabel Lopez Salinas
Anabel Lopez Salinas is from the City of Oaxaca, Mexico, where she obtained a master’s degree in regional and
technological development at the Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca. Her focus was on economic development and
migration between the United States and the Mixteca, the poorest region of Oaxaca and the birthplace of her
parents. In 2010, Anabel came to Portland, Oregon, to pursue a PhD in Public Affairs and Policy at Portland
State University. While working on her dissertation entitled Exploring Transnational Economic, Social, and Political
Participation of Mexican Immigrants in Oregon, Anabel has interviewed immigrants and public officials on the economic,
political, and social incorporation of immigrants in Oregon, a relatively new destination for Latino immigrants.
Farrukh Zaman
Farrukh Zaman is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he is
focusing on urban and industrial ecology, energy, and climate mitigation issues. Prior to joining FES as a
graduate student, Farrukh was working at WWF where he was managing three climate adaptation projects
related to food security, disaster risk reduction, and coastal adaptation. As a development enthusiast, Farrukh
plans to work in improving energy access and efficiency issues in developing countries through innovative solutions such as
retrofitting in low-income communities. Farrukh holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with minors in international relations
and psychology from the University of Karachi, Pakistan.
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THURSDA
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8:00-9:00
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9:00-9:20
CONFERENCE WELCOME – WELCOME TO OUR LAND: CORNELL PEWEW
EWEWARDY
ARDY; WELCOME TO OUR CITY: MICHAEL ARMSTRONG;
WELCOME TO OUR UNIVERSITY: PRESIDENT WIM WIEWEL
9:20-9:40
CONFERENCE OPENING – PHILLIP KALANTZIS-COPE, DIRECTOR, COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING, USA
9:40-10:15
PLENAR
LENARY
Y SESSION – CARL
ARLTON
TON ELEY, US ENVIRONMENT
NVIRONMENTAL
AL PROTECTION AGENCY, WASHINGTON, DC, USA; "EQUIT
QUITABLE
ABLE DEVELOPMENT:
SOCIAL EQUITY BY DESIGN"
10:15-10:45
GARDEN CONVERSA
ONVERSATION
TION FEA
EATURING
TURING CARL
ARLTON
TON ELEY AND COFFEE BREAK
10:45-10:55
TRANSITION BREAK
TALKING CIRCLE
Room 1 Talking Cir
Circle
cle 1 - Envir
Environmental
onmental Sustainability
Room 2 Talking Cir
Circle
cle 2 - Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context
10:55-11:45
Room 3 Talking Cir
Circle
cle 3 - Sustainability Policy and Practice
Room 4 Talking Cir
Circle
cle 4 - Sustainability Education
Room 5 Talking Cir
Circle
cle 5 - 2016 Special Focus: Urban Sustainability - Inspiration and Solution
11:45-12:45
LUNCH
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Urbanization and Its Consequences
12:45-14:25
Ecologic and Economic Zoneament as T
Tools
ools for Integrated Land Management and Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeir
Janeiro
o
Vera Jane Ruffato-Ferreira, Energy Planning Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
José Antonio Sena, Directorate of Geosciences, Geography and Statistics Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniel de Berrêdo Viana, Energy Planning Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leandro Andrei Beser de Deus, Geography Department, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cynara Alets Sthuasth Souza de Melo França, Virtual Institute of Global Changes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marcos Aurélio Vasconcelos de Freiras, Energy Planning Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Overview: This paper evaluates the potential of Ecological Economic Zoning in Rio de Janeiro as a tool for supporting the preparation of territorial
planning policies for sustainable development.
Theme: 2016 Special Focus: Urban Sustainability: Inspiration and Solution
Envir
Environmental
onmental Consequences of Urbanization: The Legal Attitude in Nigeria
Lilian Y. Taiwo, Lagos, Nigeria
Overview: Nigeria is having its share of urbanization and its incidental environmental consequences; hence, the need to review and adjust the legal
attitude of the people and government for environmental sustainability.
Theme: Environmental Sustainability
The Limits of Path Shaping: Why Cities Cr
Create
eate and Re-cr
Re-create
eate Unsustainable Urban Gr
Growth
owth Patter
Patterns
ns
Dr. Geoff Ghitter, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Dr. Noel Keough, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Dr. Jenny Lieu, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
Overview: The transition to low-carbon cities requires new urban forms yet the existing bylaws and regulations governing urban growth inhibit or
preclude such development. The development pathway is dependent.
Urban Sustainability under the Driving For
Forces-Pr
ces-Pressur
essures-State-Impacts-Responses
es-State-Impacts-Responses Framework: A Case Study of Chinese Megacities
Lu Miao, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Overview: This paper applies the DPSIR framework to assess the sustainability of Chinese megacities, to explore the impacts of urbanization on whole
urban system, and to finally give policy advice.
Room 2 Sustainability Practices and Sustainable Development
AT
Tale
ale of T
Two
wo Cities: Perspectives fr
from
om the Angle of Sustainable Development
Prof. Frank Lorne, School of Management, New York Institute of Technology-Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
Dr. James Clapp, Urban Planning, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Overview: This study compares Venice and Hong Kong on their implicit policies on sustainable development in a historical context, as well as
projections into the future.
Theme: Sustainability Policy and Practice
Ef
Efficient
ficient and Equitable T
Taxes
axes for Global Sustainability: Achieving Global Equity of the Bur
Burden
den Added T
Tax
ax and Other Forms of Envir
Environmental
onmental
Taxation
Dr. Maximilian M. Etschmaier, College of Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Overview: This paper explores ethical and legal norms permiting equitable implementation on a global scale of the Burden Added Tax and other
environmental taxes, respecting economic preferences of every sovereign nation.
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 3 Envir
Environmental
onmental Impacts and Implications
12:45-14:25
Artificial Aquifers: A Case Study of an Apartment Complex
Prof. Uday Chipalkatty, Department of Architecture, Department of Interior Design, Dr. B.N. College of Architecture for Women, Pune, India
Overview: This paper discusses artificial aquifers using the Jaloday Method. In developing countries not every one has access to water. Artificial aquifers
can be the answer.
Dynamics and Bioavailability of Cadmium and Lead in Biosolids Amended Soils: The Ef
Effect
fect of W
Water
ater T
Trreatment Residuals Nanoparticles
Prof. Fatma Sherif, Soil and Water Science Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Prof. Sayed Elkhatib, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Prof. Ahmed Mahdy, Soil and Water Science Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Dr. Mahrous Kandil, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
AbdAlla Abdelatif, Soil and Water Science Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Overview: This paper disscusses the effect of nanoparticles water treatment residuals on dynamics and bioavailability of Cd and Pb in biosolids
amended soils.
The Paradox of Clean Energy: Life-cycle Sustainability and the Recycling of W
Wind
ind T
Turbine
urbine Materials
Dr. Robert Forbis, Department of Political Science, National Wind Institute, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Dr. Travis Roach, National Wind Institute, Department of Economics, Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, USA
Overview: This paper analyzes the current policy shortcomings of recycling wind turbine materials as turbines are retired, and addresses the implications
for the future if no such policy is enacted.
Long-term Ef
Effects
fects of Intr
Introduced
oduced Species: Implications for Restoration and Management
Dr. Chester Wilson, Biology Department, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, USA
Overview: Introduced species may alter the physical environment and biological interactions in ways that leave legacy effects even after they have been
removed. This limits the effectiveness of restoration efforts.
Room 4 New Dir
Directions
ections in Sustainability Education and A
Awar
wareness
eness
Thinking thr
through
ough W
Wilder
ilderness
ness and National Parks
Evan Edward Townsend, American Studies, Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Overview: This paper is a critique and thought experiment into the various ways we might look at the United States’ wilderness areas and National
Parks both domestically and internationally.
A Campus Community Gar
Garden:
den: Cultivating Cultural Diversity and Sustainability thr
through
ough Cr
Creation
eation of Place
Helen Turner, School of Interiors, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Dr. Krista Jacobsen, Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Overview: Aimed at revitalizing a campus community garden, this one-year project explored physical, ecological, and socio-cultural sustainability
through campus engagement and a participatory process, leveraging synergies between design and agriculture.
Theme: Sustainability Education
Envir
Environmental
onmental Ethics: Doing Philosophy in the Urban Setting
Dr. Judith Chelius Stark, Philosophy Department, Seton Hall University, South Orange, USA
Overview: Teaching environmental ethics in the urban-suburban interface introduces unique challenges. Environmental principles provide the framework
to engage urban issues like open space, urban farming, site remediation through theory and practice.
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 5 Enhancing Industry Sustainability and Sustainable Innovation
12:45-14:25
The Dashboar
Dashboard
d Management System: A T
Tool
ool to Manage Data Ef
Efficiently
ficiently at the Back End and to Display Data Meaningfully at the Fr
Front
ont
End
Phyo Phyo Zin, Computer Science Department, Berea College, Berea, USA
Overview: Dashboard Management System (DMS) is designed to reduce administrative workload at the backend, to communicate sustainable data
meaningfully with public, and to provide a valuable form of environmental assessment.
A Strategic Framework on Life-cycle Pr
Procur
ocurement
ement
Dr. Stella Y. Hua, Department of Decision Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA
Overview: This study investigates the impact of performance-based contracts on supply chain sustainability in the aerospace and defense industry, and
proposes a strategic framework on life-cycle procurement.
Incr
Increasing
easing Sustainability Engagement Using Experiential Pedagogies in Socially Responsible Supply Chain Management Education
Erin Grogan, School of Management, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Dr. Stephen Morris, Department of Business Analytics and Information Systems, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Overview: This paper focuses on practical experiential learning principles and examples for teaching and learning sustainability and socially responsible
supply chain management.
Compr
Comprehensive
ehensive Sustainability Indicator Analytics for Addr
Addressing
essing Community Inequality
Dr. Lester King, Shell Center for Sustainability, Rice University, Houston, USA
Overview: This paper examines a methodology for a reliable and systematic assessment of planning performance at the community level using
sustainability indicators.
14:25-14:40
COFFEE BREAK
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Urban Renewal and Sustainability Assessment
14:40-16:20
Collaborative Neighborhood-scale Sustainability Assessment and Planning: Applying the Analytic Hierar
Hierarchy
chy Pr
Process
ocess for Spatial Decision
Support
Dr. Evan Gutierrez, Environmental Science Graduate Program, Oregon State University, Portland, USA
Overview: This paper introduces the SOURCE tool, which facilitates integration of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, GIS, and collaborative neighborhoodscale sustainability assessment for urban renewal using a case study in Portland, Oregon.
Solomon’
Solomon’ss Dilemma: Latest Challenge, Feralness
Jane McQuitty, Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Overview: Lyrical versions of feralness are missing from the social imagination. This paper considers how this absence in environmental rhetoric affects
attempts to conserve urban feralness in North America.
Zer
Zero
oW
Waste:
aste: A Sustainable Path for Urban Societal Living
Vishaka Agarwal, Textile Design Department, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhopal, India
Overview: Rapid urbanization poses an immense challenge on the environment due to large-scale waste generation. Household waste management by
recycling into "valuable resources" is a solution for sustainable urban living.
Sustainable Theory and Xer
Xeroscaping
oscaping
Dr. Lolita Nikolova, Global Academy of Sustainable Culture, International Institute of Anthropology, Salt Lake City, USA
Overview: Sustainable theory is user oriented, promotes an empathic culture, connectivity, and sensitivity. None of these characteristics can be
recognized in xeroscaping despite its growing popularity.
Theme: Sustainability in Cultural, Economic, and Social Context
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 2 Public Involvement and Local Ef
Efforts
forts towar
toward
d Envir
Environmental
14:40-16:20
Sustainable Biofuels Can Impr
Improve
ove Livelihoods and Restor
Restoree the Envir
Environment
onment
Doris Cellarius, Cross-Theme Biofuels Task Force, Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy, International Union for Conservation of
Nature, Prescott, USA
Overview: Recent criticism of biofuels as unsustainable and competing for food supplies has led to innovative projects that both benefit communities
and restore the environment.
Local Gr
Greenhouse
eenhouse Gas Emissions Of
Offsetting:
fsetting: Models for Establishing a Cooperative Local Ef
Effort
fort
Dr. Patrick Van Inwegen, Political Science, Whitworth University, Spokane, USA
Overview: This paper discusses the application of local sustainability efforts to the creation of GHG emissions offsetting and models most likely to work
for a medium-sized city.
Envir
Environmental
onmental Impact Assessment Policy
Policy,, Practice, Performance, and Public Participation as Mediated by Access to Information: The
Case of Mass Rapid T
Transport
ransport Pr
Project
oject in Malaysia
Dr. Abiola Waliyu Aiyeola, Department of Environmental Management and Planning, Faculty of Environmental Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Badagry, Nigeria
Assoc. Prof. Ramdzani bin Abdullah, Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serisedang, Malaysia
Prof. Mad Nasir Shamsudeen, Department of Environmental Management, Agricultural and Resources Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serisedang, Malaysia
Musa Haruna Danladi, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia
Dr. Arit Uyouko, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Calabar, Nigeria
Overview: This research explores the relationship between EIA process and public participation as mediated by access to information. The study used
the MRT project in Malaysia as a case study.
Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises and Envir
Environmental
onmental Public Policy in Colombia: Redir
Redirection
ection Based on Organizational Cultur
Culturee
Pedro Andrés Bohórquez Pulido, Faculty of Economic Sciences, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Juan Pablo Cendales Rodríguez, Faculty of Economic Sciences, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Overview: Understanding organizational culture is the key to building a bridge between public policy stimulus and green strategies in SMEs in Colombia.
Room 3 Rethinking Sustainability in the Age of the Anthr
Anthropocene
opocene
The Envir
Environment
onment as "Client": Over
Overcoming
coming Anthr
Anthropocentric
opocentric Barriers in Law and Social W
Work
ork
Peter Jones, Social Work and Community Welfare, College of Arts, Society, and Education, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Kate Galloway, Law, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Overview: This paper explores the alternative framing of the "environment as client" in law and social work and the implications for professional practice.
Gr
Green
een Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization
Elizabeth Mendenhall, Political Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Daniel Deudney, Political Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Overview: This paper draws together the diverse and evolving currents of environmentalism into the vision of a "Green Civilization" emerging from the
ashes of previous eras of scientific-technological civilization.
A Critical Theory of Art and the Liberation of Natur
Nature:
e: The Aesthetic V
Vision
ision of "Laudato Si"
Prof. William Hetrick, Division of Social Science, Bethel University, McKenzie, USA
Prof. Marion Graham, Division of Humanities, Bethel University, McKenzie, USA
Overview: This paper uses the works of Herbert Marcuse on aesthetics as a first step toward the liberation of nature. Pope Francis' recently issued
"Laudato Si" will serve as an exemplar.
The Contributions of Cultur
Culture/s
e/s to Sustainability Science and Practice: Clarifying Key Relationships for Advocacy and Action
Dr. Michel Gueldry, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, USA
Overview: We analyze meanings and uses of the multifaceted concept of "culture/s" for sustainability and detail an illustrative case-study. This reveals
culture/s for, of, toward, in sustainability, and sustainability across cultures.
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14:40-16:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 4 Sustainability Education: Design and the Built Envir
Environment
onment
What Ar
Architects
chitects Should Be Lear
Learning
ning in School? Thr
Three
ee Models of Sustainable Design T
Teaching
eaching and Lear
Learning
ning
Ming Hu, American Institute of Architects, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
Overview: This paper introduces three different models that teach, implement, validate, and promote sustainable design in the architecture profession.
Exemplary programs will be used to illustrate the three different models.
Quantifying Sustainability in System Design
Dr. Ronald Carson, Department of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA
Overview: In a new engineering course in the “Appropriate and Sustainable Engineering” program, Seattle Pacific University is addressing how to
analyze systems during the design activity to address quantified sustainability issues.
Sustainability in the Context and Cultur
Culturee of Engineers
Sheri Woo, SHN Engineers and Geologists, Eureka, USA
Dr. Kathryn Lancaster, School of Business, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA
Overview: The overlap and intersection of engineering culture and sustainability values are explored. Limited system boundaries are considered as
reasons why our built environment often falls short of sustainability.
The Lehigh in Senegal Design: Build Practicum
Dr. Susan Kart, Art, Architecture, Design Department, Africana Studies Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
Dr. Mark Orrs, Department of Political Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
Brent Stringfellow, Breslin Ridyard Fadero Architects, Allentown, USA
Overview: This paper proposes a pedagogy based on a design model of research, travel, making, and testing to integrate the humanities with
sustainable development.
Room 5 Teaching and Lear
Learning
ning about Sustainability
Renewable Energy Education: Does It Impact Students’ Per
Perception
ception of Climate Change?
Nirav Patel, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Overview: Sustainability education has been described to encourage development of environmental values and attitudes. I examine this further, using
empirical testing, to understand if directed educational efforts can sustain environmental engagement.
Rethinking How W
Wee T
Teach
each Sustainability: Advancing Pedagogy for Sustained Student Lear
Learning
ning in Higher Education
Prof. Marsha R. Cuddeback, School of Interior Design, College of Art and Design, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Overview: Rethinking how we teach and apply methods for significant learning holds promise for sustaining student learning in higher education within
and beyond the classroom.
Sustainability and Social Responsibility: A Method for Encouraging Community Engagement fr
from
om University Students
Austin Dada, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Overview: This research details the methods used to teach the concept of sustainability to an interdisciplinary group of students based on the lessons
learned from a study-away experience.
Navigating a Complex W
World:
orld: A Case for Resilience Education
Prof. James Pushnik, Institute for Sustainable Development, California State University Chico, Chico, USA
Prof. Colleen Hatfield, Department of Biological Science, California State University Chico, Chico, USA
Overview: Education for resilience introduces a new line of research and learning. Multidisciplinary collaboration sparks creative thinking leading to
innovative teaching and learning needed to address the daunting challenges ahead.
16:20-17:20
CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION - PLEASE JOIN US AFTER THE LAST SESSIONS OF THE DA
DAY
Y FOR REFRESHMENTS AND A CHANCE TO
CONVERSE AND GET TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW DELEGA
DELEGATES
TES.
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8:00-8:30
REGISTRA
EGISTRATION
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8:30-8:45
DAIL
AILY
Y UPDA
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TE
8:45-9:15
PUBLISHING YOUR AR
RTICLE
TICLE OR BOOK WITH COMMON GROUND
PLENAR
LENARY
Y SESSION – VERONICA DUJON, HIGHER EDUCA
DUCATION
TION COORDINA
OORDINATION
TION COMMISSION OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY COORDINA
OORDINATION
TION, ST
TA
ATE
9:15-9:50 OF OREGON, POR
ORTLAND
TLAND, USA; "GLOBALIZA
LOBALIZATION
TION AND CONTESTS OVER NA
ATURAL
TURAL RESOURCES: DEFINING SOCIAL SUST
USTAINABILITY
AINABILITY A
AT
T
LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND INTERNA
NTERNATIONAL
TIONAL SCALES"
9:50-10:20
10:20-10:30
GARDEN CONVERSA
ONVERSATION
TION FEA
EATURING
TURING VERONICA DUJON AND COFFEE BREAK
TRANSITION BREAK
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Human Impacts and Envir
Environmental
10:30-11:45
Factors Af
Affecting
fecting Mode Choice for the Jour
Journey
ney to School: Evidence fr
from
om Halifax, Canada
Dr. Jamie E.L. Spinney, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Dr. Hanna Maoh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Dr. Hugh Millward, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Overview: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of the personal, school, and neighbourhood characteristics associated with travel mode choices for
children’s direct journeys between their home and school.
Understanding the Economic Impacts of Rural-Urban Migration in the Context of Climate Change in Coastal Ar
Areas
eas of Pakistan
Farrukh Zaman, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Overview: This research primarily examines the impact of rural-urban migration on economic sectors (e.g. fisheries and livestock) in the context of
climate change in the coastal areas of Pakistan.
Beyond Ecological Limits to Gr
Growth
owth
Dr. Gabor Zovanyi, Department of Planning and Public Administration, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, USA
Overview: Mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits on growth. Based on an
overview of that evidence the paper advances a no-growth imperative.
Room 2 Teaching Sustainability
Contemplative Practices in the Sustainability Classr
Classroom:
oom: Helping Students Cope and Find Cr
Creative
eative Solutions for Global Climate Change
Dr. Eric Stottlemyer, The Environmental Program, The Writing Program, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, USA
Overview: This paper examines contemplative practice as a means to help students better understand the complex web of relationships that tie urban
societies to the natural systems upon which they depend.
A Solutions-based Appr
Approach
oach to T
Teaching
eaching Sustainability in an Inter
Interdisciplinary
disciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Richard Niesenbaum, Biology and Sustainability Studies, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
Overview: This paper discusses a sustainability curriculum that offers the interdisciplinary background required to understand many of the complex
challenges we face and develops the skills needed to solve these problems.
The Cir
Circle
cle of Courage in College: Integrating Native American Cultural Principles into Undergraduate Social W
Work
ork Education
Dr. Kevin Jones, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Portland, Portland, USA
Overview: This paper describes a study of an innovative application of The Circle of Courage model to undergraduate social work education, bringing
Native American youth development principles into the college classroom.
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Room 3 Sustainability Policy and Practice: Public Health Car
Caree
10:30-11:45
Perspectives of Community Health W
Workers
orkers on the Sustainability of Primary Health Car
Caree
Prof. Dan Richard Fernandez, St. Luke's College of Nursing, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City, Philippines
Overview: This study determined the perspectives of community health workers’ perspectives on the sustainability of primary health care.
Social Sustainability
Sustainability,, a T
Trrojan Horse for T
Traditional
raditional Public Health Perspectives
Sven Hassler, Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
Overview: This paper discusses how demands on social sustainability meet health-promotive aspects of community policy planning and how these
perspectives are used and perceived at the Swedish community level.
Walking the T
Talk:
alk: Enacting Health Pr
Promotion
omotion and Equity in a Rural Health and W
Wellness
ellness Center
Ryan Bender, School of Social Work, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Dr. Jana L. Meinhold, Child and Family Studies, School of Social Work, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Ivy Wagner, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, Cornelius, USA
Ignolia Duyck, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, Cornelius, USA
Karen Cellarius, Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Dr. Cynthia Perry, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
Dr. Eileen Muench Brennan, Regional Research Institute for Human Services, School of Social Work, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Dr. Christina Nicolaidis, Social Determinants of Health, School of Social Work, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: Interviews with community members and health care providers in outer Portland, Oregon offered insight to health promotion, integrated health
and wellness services, and barriers to better health.
Room 4 Dynamics of Cultural Sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability,, Institutional Capital, and the Social V
Value
alue of the Arts
Dr. Alisa Moldavanova, Department of Political Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Overview: This paper approaches formalized arts organizations as the core of the cultural dimension of sustainability. It examines the sustainability of art
museums, literature, and music and performing arts organizations.
Pr
Protecting
otecting Living Cultural Landscapes: Lessons for Sustainable Settlements in Local Knowledge
Carla Chifos, School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
Overview: This paper summarizes types of local practices and knowledge that inform culturally sustainable outcomes found in both formally and
informally protected living cultural landscapes from multiple European and Canadian cases.
Humane V
Values:
alues: Heritage T
Tourism
ourism as a Sustainable Revitalization Movement
Dr. Michael Di Giovine, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, USA
Dr. Teresita Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc., Tempe, USA
Dr. Jonathan Mabry, City of Tucson, Tucson, USA
Overview: Grounded in anthropological theory and case studies from urban settings in three continents, this paper illustrates how participatory heritage
tourism programs can foster holistic, sustainable, socio-cultural, and economic revitalization movements.
Room 5 Envir
Environmental
onmental Activism
Fr
Freedom
eedom of Information and the Envir
Environment:
onment: W
Women's
omen's Activism for Envir
Environmental
onmental Pr
Protection
otection
Prof. Ana Cristina Carvalho, International Law Research Program, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada
Overview: This paper analyzes the role of women's environmental activism, as well as how international law can help promote freedom of information to
foster activism.
Resistance Re-visioned: Indigenous Envir
Environmental
onmental Activism, Education, and Renewable Energy Development in Canada
Dr. Gregory Lowan-Trudeau, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Rajan Rathnavalu, Canada
Overview: This paper reports on two related studies into Indigenous environmental activism, education, and renewable energy development in Canada.
Room 6 Workshop
Between the First and Last Mile: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Or
Oregon’
egon’ss Regional Food System
Jim Kalvelage, Opsis Architecture LLP, Portland, USA
Franklin Jones, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery, Portland, USA
Heather DeGrella, Opsis Architecture, Portland, USA
Sydney DeLuna, Redd Project, Ecotrust, Portland, USA
Phil Blankenship, Lazy B Ranch, Chiloquin, USA
Overview: This workshop addresses the aggregation, processing, and distribution infrastructure in Oregon's regional food system that supports the flow
of whole and minimally processed agricultural and food products on every scale.
11:45-12:45
LUNCH
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Room 1 Focused Discussion
12:45-13:30
Ecosystem-based Management: Its Curr
Current
ent Implementation and Its Futur
Futuree in Or
Oregon
egon Coastal Management
Alexandra Hoffman, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, School of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Overview: Pieces of ecosystem-based management are currently being implemented into both state and federal laws. By continuing to incorporate
ecosystem-based management, laws will do a better job at protecting marine ecosystems.
Developing a Sustainability Pr
Program
ogram with Pr
Proven
oven Results: A Case Study fr
from
om the Fr
Freight
eight T
Transportation
ransportation Industry
Justine Russo, Sales and Marketing, PITT OHIO, Pittsburgh, USA
Overview: We understand the impact our trucks have on the environment, economy, and community. Our goal is to share how we use sustainability to
be a good corporate and community citizen.
The Sustainable Building Industry Supply Chain: A Cluster Appr
Approach
oach
Emily Ryan, School of Marketing, Operations, and Management, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Overview: This paper discusses the drivers for viable supply chain cluster development in the sustainable buildings industry to identify key leverage
points from established theoretical and practical foundations.
Assessing Supply Chain Sustainability in Small Business
Dr. Jeffery Adams, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, USA
Dr. Faiza Khoja, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, USA
Dr. Ralph Kauffman, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, USA
Overview: This discussion develops and assesses application of a model to determine the degree of implementation of sustainable supply chain
practices in small businesses.
Social Justice Sustainabilities: Critical Theories and V
Visions
isions
Felipe de Souza Ferreira, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: After proposing a framework that brings together feminism, environmental justice, and oppression theory, I hope to inspire different theories
and visions of sustainability (sustainabilities) that are rooted in social justice.
A Path to Institutionalizing Sustainability: The Case of a Private Liberal Arts University
Dr. Valeria Makarova, School of Management, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA
Dr. Charles Maxey, School of Management, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA
Overview: This research on major enabling factors and stumbling blocks for developing adequate sustainability governance structure and
comprehensive reporting process was conducted at a medium-sized private liberal arts institution.
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Room 2 Poster Session
Life Cycle Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Electric V
Vehicles
ehicles Based on Electricity Generation Mix: W
Well-to-wheel
ell-to-wheel Analysis
Considering Battery Pr
Production
oduction and Solar Power Generation Scenarios
Hyunhong Choi, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
JongRoul Woo, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Joongha Ahn, Samsung Economic Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea
Overview: Life cycle analysis of carbon dioxide emissions for electric vehicles based on country's electricity generation mix was performed considering
battery production. Solar power generation scenarios for EVs were also considered.
Investigation of Guests’ Motivations to Participate in Hotel Gr
Green
een Pr
Programs
ograms and Their Ef
Effect
fect on Overall Guest Satisfaction
Prof. Magnus Thorsson, International Hotel School, Johnson and Wales University, Providence, USA
Liang Rebecca Tang, Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Overview: Environmentally responsible behavior often involves difficult motivational conflicts, arising from the incompatibility of environmental protectionrelated societal goals and individual consumers’ personal or self-interested benefits.
Public Pr
Prefer
eference
ence and W
Willingness
illingness to Pay for Spent Nuclear Fuel Facilities in South Kor
Korea:
ea: A Latent Class Appr
Approach
oach
HyungBin Moon, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
JongRoul Woo, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Jongsu Lee, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Overview: We quantitatively analyze the South Korean public’s heterogeneous preferences regarding the construction and operation of spent nuclear
fuel facilities.
The Ef
Effect
fect of Alter
Alternative
native Fuel V
Vehicles
ehicles on the Market: The Case of the Kor
Korean
ean Automobile Market
Youngjun Stephen Park, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Jongsu Lee, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Overview: This research applies the joint mixed-logit model to analyze the impact of alternative-fuel vehicles on the automobile market and on social
welfare because of changes in customers' preferences.
An Ef
Effective
fective Channel of Communication for Public Deliberation on the Issue of Renewable Energy Policy
JiYeon Jung, Technology Economics Management Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Overview: This study provides ideas for fostering sustainability through an examination of effective communication channels around the topic of
renewable energy policy.
Low-income Sustainable Shelter
Camilo Cerro, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art, and Design, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Overview: This study explores a prefabricated low-income shelter to better the quality of life in the developing world.
Sorptive Removal of Alizarin Y
Yellow-R
ellow-R Dye fr
from
om W
Water
ater Using Fibers of Luf
Luffa
fa cylindrica Sponge
Prof. Tariq Mahmud, Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Abdul Rauf, Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Ch. Muhammad Ashraf, PCSIR Labs Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Rabia Rehman, Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Overview: We have evaluated the efficiency of the fibers of Luffa cylindrica sponge for removing Alizarin Yellow-R dye from the water.
A Gr
Ground
ound Theory Study: How Do Sustainable Initiatives and Policies Af
Affect
fect Sustainable Decision-making Behaviors?
Matthew Lunde, Department of Marketing and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Overview: This research investigates how do sustainable initiatives/policies affect people’s sustainable intentions and behaviors. By drawing themes, a
core category of “keeping up with the Joneses” emerges.
A Small Dwelling
George Newlands, Architecture, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Overview: This project examines the design and construction of a dwelling(s) that incorporates sustainable systems into a minimal footprint and
maximum comfort.
Envir
Environmental
onmental Management and Psychological W
Wellbeing
ellbeing in College Students
Xinyi Fang, Department of Infrastructure Planning and Facilities-Recycling, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Overview: This study examines the relationship between college students’ environmental management and their psychological wellbeing.
Social Sustainability and Determinants of Health in the Emerging Era of Homonormativity: The Deconstructive Impact on the Cultural
Identity of Pr
Progr
ogressive,
essive, Equalizing Social Policy in Urban Centers
Scott A. Ellis, School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Overview: Cities have protected gay men, legitimizing sociocultural sustainability even when illegal. This is being deconstructed by the very equality that
gay men and their allies have sought for decades.
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12:45-13:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Cr
Cross-racial
oss-racial Friendship Maintenance and Sustainability: An Ethnographic Study of Social Media Use in Sojour
Sojourning
ning Experiences
Dr. Hongchi Shiau, Communications Management Department, Gender Studies Graduate Institute, Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan
Overview: Drawing on ethnographic interviews with thirteen Taiwanese sojourners, this study analyzes how the use of social media with assistance of
visual cues may enable Taiwanese sojourners to overcome some challenges.
Understanding and Influencing Student Behavior towar
toward
d Food W
Waste
aste at Portland State University
Manar Alattar, Campus Sustainability Office, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: New food waste education programming was implemented at Portland State University in the 2015/2016 academic year. Programming
impact on behavioral change is being measured through survey and waste audit data.
Muhlenberg’
Muhlenberg’ss Sustainability House as an Education T
Tool:
ool: Community Engagement though Practice in Sustainable Living
Ellison Heil, Environmental Science and Sustainability Studies, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
Overview: The environmental education initiative of Muhlenberg College’s Sustainability House is rooted in community gardening, energy conservation,
and waste management. These initiatives are avenues to engage community awareness of sustainability.
Making Social Innovation and Social Entr
Entrepr
epreneurship
eneurship Education Mor
Moree Accessible and Relevant
Cindy Cooper, Impact Entrepreneurs, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Jacen Greene, Impact Entrepreneurs, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: The Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate is a majority-online program open to people of all ages and locations.
Undergraduates, graduates, and members of the community attend courses together.
Transforming Lawn into an Edible Landscape
Alexandra Marie Hezik, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, USA
Overview: The Western Kentucky University Office of Sustainability's edible-landscaped front yard will demonstrate one of many urban agricultural
methods and serve as an educational tool for the on- and off-campus communities.
Room 3 Workshop
The Evolution of an Envir
Environmental
onmental Sustainability Pr
Program
ogram in the Hillsbor
Hillsborough
ough Regional T
Transit
ransit Authority
Authority,, T
Tampa,
ampa, Florida
Jeffrey Seward, Hillsborough Regional Transity Authority, Tampa, USA
Overview: HART has initiated, and is evolving, a robust environmental sustainability program addressing not only the internal ISO 14001 processes but
changing transportation options that decrease environmental impact by transit users.
Room 4 Workshop
Transformative Sustainability Lear
Learning
ning Pedagogies
Rosemary Logan, First Year Seminar Action Research Team Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
Overview: This workshop explores transformative sustainability learning pedagogies for application in the classroom, learning from Expeditionary
Learning, a leader in the area of rigorous, integrative, place, and problem-based learning.
Room 5 Workshop
A Scholar’
Scholar’ss Gar
Garden:
den: Inquiry into the Landscape of Food Justice Scholarship and Implications for Sustainability Education
Jess Gerrior, Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England, Keene, USA
Overview: How do scholarly disciplines and cultures approach food justice, and what does this mean for sustainability praxis? What could a
sustainability pedagogy that embraces food justice look like?
Room 6 Workshop
Addr
Addressing
essing Sustainability and Climate Change Acr
Across
oss All Campus Curricula
Dr. Heather W. Hackman, Hackman Consulting Group, Minneapolis, USA
Overview: This workshop demonstrates how educators can address sustainability and climate change in any content area via the discussion of a
teaching matrix tool and of various examples across multiple disciplines.
Room 7 Workshop
Implementing Sustainability: Insight fr
from
om Theory and Sub-national Leadership
Jacqueline Kozak-Thiel, Sustainability Services: Economic Health, Social Sustainability, Environmental Services, City of Fort Collins, Fort Collins, USA
Overview: Participants are invited to share lessons learned from sub-national sustainability innovation and action. Facilitated discussion will follow a brief
discussion about implementation theory and practice with case study examples.
13:30-13:45
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Room 1 Social Sustainability: Policy and Practice
The Role of Non-gover
Non-governmental
nmental Organizations in Activating Y
Youth
outh V
Volunteerism
olunteerism in the Sultanate of Oman
Wajeha Al-Ani, Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman
Muhammed Lashin, Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman
Rashid Al-Fahdi, Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman
Overview: This study discusses the possibility of non-governmental organizations helping to increase the participation of youth in social activities.
An Online University for Refugees: Dr
Dream
eam or Reality?
Dr. Gul Inanc, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanynag Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Overview: This paper discusses a project focused on creating a new knowledge network called OUR (Open University for Refugees).
Happiness and Quality of Life for the Elderly Living in Neighborhoods
Heng Zhang, Department of Architecture, Institute of Environmental and Behavioral Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Yu-Chuan Hu, Department of Architecture, Institute of Environmental and Behavioral Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Overview: We collect elders’ satisfaction of residential environment and explore the planning factors of elderly living environments by evaluating elderly
well-being.
Community Capitals T
Tool:
ool: Operationalizing Sustainability in Diverse Contexts
Dr. Gretchen Ferguson, Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Overview: This paper introduces the conceptual framework of community capital and the Community Capital Tool (CC Tool) as a way of operationalizing
sustainability in local areas.
Room 2 Indigenous Adaptation and Resilience: Cultural Ecology
Sustainable Resilience in Barbuda: Lear
Learning
ning fr
from
om the Past and Developing Strategies for the Futur
Futuree
Dr. Rebecca Boger, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, USA
Dr. Amy Potter, Department of History, Armstrong State University, Savannah, USA
Dr. Sophia Perdikaris, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, USA
Dr. Jennifer Adams, School of Education, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, USA
Overview: Natural and social scientists are working with local experts from Barbuda to document sustainably resilient practices in the past, and develop
strategies to build sustainable resilience in the present.
Mobility
Mobility,, Space, and the Idea of Home: The Nomadic Community of Kha-Dr
Kha-Dro
o
Thinley Gyatso, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Overview: This study explores the cultural practices of the nomadic community Kha-Dro as they relate to ecology.
Determinants of Innovative Agr
Agrofor
oforestry
estry Adoption in the Arid Zone of Thal, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Khan, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Overview: This study investigates the factors that determine the adoption of agroforestry in the Thal, a resource deficient region that largely consists on
sand dunes in Pakistan.
Room 3 Dynamics of Sustainability Policy and Practice
Cooperation and Sustainability in T
Trans-national
rans-national Settings: The Roles of State Inter
Interests
ests and Capacity in Implementing the Eutr
Eutrophication
ophication
Segment in the Baltic Sea Action Pr
Program
ogram
Dr. Björn Hassler, Department of Natural Sciences, Technology, and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Overview: This paper explores the tensions between the Polluter Pays Principle and incentives for states to reduce nutrient leakage into the Baltic Sea
as agreed upon in the regional action plan.
Incorporation of Sustainability Requir
Requirements
ements in Public Contracts: An Examination of Contract Negotiation T
Techniques
echniques and Their Cost
Benefit
Darin Matthews, Contracting and Procurement, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Dr. Adam Williams, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, USA
Overview: This paper reviews contract negotiation techniques in the public sector and evaluates the cost benefit of increasing sustainability elements at
various stages of the procurement and contracting process.
Every Dr
Drop
op Counts: Choosing Sustainability in W
Water
ater and Power in Brazil’
Brazil’ss Southeast Region
Michael James Hill, Portuguese Department, Department of Foreign Languages, United States Military Academy, West Point, USA
Overview: Positive choices in political accountability, market autonomy, and environmental sustainability are the key to drought mitigation as well as
sustainability in Brazil's Southeast Region.
People, Parks, and Policies: Practicing Natur
Naturee Conservation in Post-socialist Countries
Natalya Yakusheva, School of Natural Sciences, Technology, and Environmental Studies, Baltic and East European Graduate School, Sodertorn
University, Huddinge, Sweden
Overview: This paper explores how conservation practices influence local socio-economic development and how it reflects social and ecological
sustainability aspects of the existing nature conservation policies.
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Room 4 Workshops
13:45-15:25
Transformational Change, Sustainability
Sustainability,, and Institutional Engagement
Dr. Ruth Johnston, Planning and Management, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Claudia Frere-Anderson, Planning and Management, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Overview: In this interactive workshop the audience will learn from the authors about creating successful outcomes for strategic implementation of social
responsibility at an institutional level.
A Six Sigma Appr
Approach
oach to Sustainability: Continual Impr
Improvement
ovement for Social Responsibility
Dr. Holly Duckworth, Sherpa, Inc. - A Benefit Corporation, Durango, USA
Overview: In this workshop, learn the techniques of continual improvement for social responsibility: a methodology, based on Six Sigma tools and
techniques, for improving an organization’s social responsibility performance.
Room 5 Eco-social Capacity Building
Forms of Capital in the Pr
Process
ocess of School Gr
Ground
ound Gr
Greening
eening
Miho Lowan-Trudeau, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Overview: This paper features a qualitative study that explores individuals’ experiences manipulating forms of capital in the process of school ground
greening in a western Canadian urban center.
Sense of Connectedness: Its Role in Eco-social Resilience
Tom Colley, School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Prof. Shelley Burgin, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Dr. Brenda Dobia, School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Overview: A study of environmental community engagement practitioners showed that a sense of connectedness is central to eco-social capacity
building. Practices that extend this sense offer cultural pathways to eco-social resilience.
Identity and V
Vulnerability:
ulnerability: The Case of Sama-Bajaus
Regina Junio, Zamboanga City, Philippines
Overview: The case of Sama-Bajau shows how indigenous peoples are vulnerable to climate change as their rights, cultures, livelihoods, and identities
are based on deep and intricate relationships with the environment.
The Benefits of Aboriginal Involvement in Co-management in Australia: Exploring the Dif
Difficulties
ficulties and Dilemmas of W
Working
orking T
Together
ogether in a
Colonized Land
Alexandra Maris, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Overview: This paper explores environmental-sustainability options through Aboriginal co-management in Australia, focusing on social and economic
factors in conservation at Kakadu National Park and the Blue Mountains World Heritage Site.
Room 6 Sustainability Education
Linking Cafeteria to Curriculum: Merging Heter
Heterogeneous
ogeneous Sustainability Practices at Rhode Island College
E. Pierre Morenon, Anthropology Department, Rhode Island College, Providence, USA
James C. Murphy, Continuing Education, Rhode Island College, Providence, USA
Overview: A sustainability officer and educator critique successes and challenges to seamlessly merge education, institutional and community
sustainable practices at comprehensive public Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sustainability and Citizenship: Educating and Engaging First-year University Students in Sustainability Principles
Fletcher Alexander, Institute for Sustainable Development, Division of Academic Affairs, California State University, Chico, Chico, USA
Nathaniel Millard, First-Year Experience Program, California State University, Chico, Chico, USA
Prof. James Pushnik, Institute for Sustainable Development, California State Unversity, Chico, Chico, USA
Overview: At CSU, Chico we developed a series of complementary programs in partnership across campus in a holistic approach to educating and
engaging our first-year students in sustainability and citizenship.
The Inclusion of Sustainability as a Subject of Study in Undergraduate Design Pr
Programs:
ograms: A Retr
Retrospective
ospective Analysis of Challenges,
Limitations, Misunderstandings, and Outcomes Observed
Carlos Fiorentino, Design Studies, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Overview: This paper narrates personal experience and collects other insights on teaching the subject of sustainability to design undergraduate students
for the last five years, across several design schools in Canada.
15:25-15:40
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Room 1 Urban Sustainability: Social Inspiration and Civic Engagement
How Ar
Aree Australian Urban Gr
Green
een Spaces Used by New Immigrants: A Study of Iranian Immigrants in Melbour
Melbourne
ne
Nasim Yazdani, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelomg, Australia
Dr. Mirjana Lozanovska, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Overview: This paper explores how urban natural environments are seen and used by ethnic minorities and new comers in Australian multicultural cities,
illustrating Iranian immigrants' "way of seeing" in Melbourne's parks.
Social Inclusion of the Migrant Population in Dubai: A New Paradigm in Housing
Dr. Mohammed Firoz, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Bhakti More, University of Salford (UK), Manipal University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Overview: This paper explores the "patterns of urban settlement" transforming Dubai’s urban landscape with reference to dynamics, challenges, and
opportunities of social inclusion in Dubai’s urban planning.
Engaging Mexican Immigrant Populations in Or
Oregon
egon
Anabel Lopez Salinas, Public Administration, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: Oregon is a recent destination for Mexican immigrants. Perceptions of barriers to civic engagement among this population represent
challenges to integrate them into the broader society.
Applying the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the United States as a Framework for Local Action in Low-income
Communities: A W
Workshop
orkshop Forum for Sustainable Development in Detr
Detroit,
oit, Michigan
Alexander Plum, The Global Health Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA
Rachel Mucha, The Global Health Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Washington, USA
Ilyssa Tamler, The Global Health Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA
John Zervos, The Global Health Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA
Dr. Peter Hammer, School of Law, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Overview: A workshop, convened in a low-income U.S. city, hosted civic and health leaders who adapted the UN SDGs to demonstrate their relevance
as a template for public health action.
Room 2 Economics of Sustainability and Development
Limitations of the Organic Mission Initiative in Sikkim, India in Achieving Sustainable Development
Nicole Karsch, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
Overview: Can sustainable development be achieved through Sikkim’s Organic Mission initiative within the context of the conflict between neoliberal
politics, globalization, and the organic philosophy and practices of traditional farmers?
The Economy of Giving in a Simbahayan Community Development Pr
Program
ogram
Jommar de Guzman, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
Belinda S. Mandigma, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Santo Tomas, Espana, Philippines
Franz Giuseppe F. Cortez, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Santo Tomas, Espana, Philippines
Corazon Regacho, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Santo Tomas, Espana, Philippines
Overview: We introduce an alternative way of understanding the economy of giving as one possible approach for developing a social sustainability
reporting framework.
Assessment of the W
World
orld Bank Gr
Group
oup Contribution to Sustainable Development Using Fuzzy Logic Methodology
Carlos J. Tortola-Sebastian, Jaume I University, Washington DC, USA
María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, Finance and Accounting Department, Faculty of Legal and Economics Science, Jaume I University, Castellón, Spain
Juana María Rivera-Lirio, Finance and Accounting Department, Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences, Jaume I University, Castellón, Spain
Overview: Fuzzy logic methodology is applied to evaluate World Bank Group effectiveness in promoting sustainable development in its recipient
countries considering different stakeholder preferences about weak and strong sustainability.
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Room 3 Food Strategies
Food Sover
Sovereignty
eignty as a Catalyst for Repositioning Informal Urban Labor Markets
Charlie Corwin, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Overview: This paper addresses food sovereignty’s potential to reverse the negative impacts of urbanization by repositioning urban labor markets in
ecologic and democratically framed rural settings.
Idealism and Pragmatism: Pedagogy and the Design of a Sustainable Farmstead
David Crutchfield, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA
Kathleen Pepple, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA
Overview: This paper relates the development of a prototype sustainable farmstead and the implementation of various pedagogical tactics. In the
process, sustainable aspirations confront the pragmatism of dwelling and agriculture.
Food Security on Campus: A Framework for Analysis
Britni Ayers, Political Science Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Overview: Food insecurity among United States college students is a growing concern. This project establishs a framework for evaluating food insecurity
at the University of Arkansas.
Food Security in Japan and Per
Perceptions
ceptions of Risk: An Examination of Consumer Attitudes
Dr. Shawn Banasick, Global Studies Section, Department of English, Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Japan
Overview: This paper uses Q methodology to examine the food security concerns and risk perceptions of consumers in western Japan.
Room 4 Public Participation and Response to Policy and Practice
Understanding Stakeholder Per
Perceptions
ceptions of Public Participation in Sanitation Infrastructur
Infrastructuree Pr
Projects
ojects
Shamiso Kumbirai, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Overview: This paper examines the policy and practice of public participation and articulates the perceptions and expectations stakeholders have to
determine the implications towards strengthening participatory processes in public infrastructure projects.
Translating Backcasting Results into Action: Experiences fr
from
om Nepal
Eva Wieners, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Martina Neuburger, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Udo Schickhoff, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Overview: In a case study in Nepal we analyze the translation of planning results from a backcasting process into action and policy.
Understanding Consumer Response to Climate Change Amelioration Policies
Prof. John Heath Roberts, School of Marketing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Pamela Danvers Morrison, Discipline of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Overview: This paper examines the general public’s support for climate change amelioration policies by advancing a model of individual evaluation
processes and calibrating it for scientists and members of the public.
Swedish Farmer Conceptions of Societal Responsibility and Their Relationship to Shades of Sustainable Development
Dr. Fred P. Saunders, School of Natural Sciences, Technology, and Environmental Studies, Södertörns University, Stockholm, Sweden
Overview: This paper discusses different conceptions of what sustainable farming might mean by linking Swedish farmer perspectives to the contrasting
European Union agricultural related goals of multifunctionality and sustainable intensification.
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RIDAY
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Room 5 Assessments of Envir
Environmental
Air Pollution (Ozone) thr
through
ough ANN-based Modelling, Regr
Regression
ession Model, and Sensitivity Analysis for the Metr
Metropolitan
opolitan Ar
Area
ea of Jackson,
Mississippi
Jam Shahzaib Khan, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA
Dr. Yacoub Najjar, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA
Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck, Department of Civil Engineering, University Of Mississippi, USA
Salim Khoso, Department of Civil Engineering, Quaid-e-Awam University College of Engineering, Science, and Technology, Larkana, Pakistan
Overview: This study analyzes air pollution (ozone) in Jackson, Mississippi through two different modeling approaches and potentially predicts and
validates the data of air pollution measured by the Climate Prediction center.
Comparative Life-cycle Assessment of Guayule and Hevea Natural Rubber
Habib Azarabadi, School of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Dr. Amy Landis, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Center for Earth Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe,
USA
Overview: This study uses LCA for comparing the environmental impacts of guayule and Hevea natural rubber. The environmental impacts included in
this assessment are global warming, eutrophication, and energy consumption.
A Sustainability Analysis of W
Waste
aste to Energy Strategies for Municipal Solid W
Waste
aste T
Trreatment
Cinthia Avila, Energy Sustainability, Autonomous University of Mexico State, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Carla Cedano, InnoBa.Centro Lavín para el Desarrollo de Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica., Cuernavaca, Mexico
Gonzaleo Gonzalez, Masters Program on Energy Sustainability, Autonomous University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Overview: This study provides a methodology for the assessment of waste to energy technologies applying sustainability indicators and analytic
hierarchy process for strategic decision making.
Room 6 Late Additions
Do Industries Releasing Pollution in Mexico Pollute Mor
Moree in Poor
Poorer
er Neighborhoods?
Lopamudra Chakraborti, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Michael Margolis, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Overview: This paper provides direct evidence that toxic pollution from industries in Mexico are higher in less prosperous communities, thus, indicating
the existence of environmental injustice concerns and adverse health impacts.
Af
Affecting
fecting Change thr
through
ough Insurgent Ar
Architectur
chitectures:
es: Student Engagement in Support of the Urban Farm
Timothy Gray, Architecture Department, Ball State University, Muncie, USA
Lucas Brown, Department of Architecture, Green Mountain College, Green Mountain, USA
Overview: This paper discusses four projects spanning two institutions, all focused on supporting the efforts of urban farmers in the Indianapolis area
designed by design-build students.
The T
Transition
ransition fr
from
om V
Ver
ernacular
nacular to Moder
Modern
n Ar
Architectur
chitecturee in Developing Countries
Sankalp Gupta, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Dr. Andrea Wheeler, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Overview: This study explores the benefits and disadvantages of the transition from vernacular to modern architecture, supporting the cause of
vernacular architecture and furthering its incorporation in contemporary sustainable building design.
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Y SESSION – JENNIFER ALLEN, HA
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TFIELD SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, POR
ORTLAND
TLAND ST
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ORTLAND
TLAND, USA; "BRIDGING
OUR DIFFERENCES: ENGAGING DIVERSE PAR
ARTNERS
TNERS TO ADV
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9:50-10:20
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ONVERSATION
TION FEA
EATURING
TURING JENNIFER ALLEN AND COFFEE BREAK
TRANSITION BREAK
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Urban Sustainability: Envir
Environmental
onmental Inspiration and Solution
10:30-12:10
The W
Wilder
ilderness
ness in the Metr
Metropolis:
opolis: Natural Change in Urban Buildings
Prof. Kevin Nute, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Overview: This paper assesses the merits of spatial strategies and tectonic devices that can introduce weather-generated movement into urban
buildings while maintaining shelter and privacy and raising awareness of sustainable practices.
Measuring Biodiversity on an Urban Living W
Wall
all System
Prof. Nancy D. Rottle, Green Futures Research and Design Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Leann Andrews, Built Environments, Green Futures Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Overview: This paper discusses research methods and results measuring the capacity of two living wall panels to support biodiversity and human
access to nature in the urban environment.
Sustainable Urban W
Waste
aste Management Practices: A Literatur
Literaturee Review of V
Various
arious Cases ar
around
ound the W
World
orld
Mohamed El Mehdi Diouri, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Praveen Maghelal, Sustainable Critical Infrastructure, Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Overview: This study is an overview of waste management strategies in sustainable communities identified through the eco-city approach.
Room 2 Addr
Addressing
essing Sustainability Education: Challenges and Assessments
Instructional Factors That Develop Envir
Environmental
onmental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Knowledge in Higher Education
Brett Cease, Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA
Overview: This research examines "People and Environment" courses across three MNSCU universities, administering a pre- and post-course
instrument to students that measured growth in environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.
Redefining School Gover
Governance
nance Reporting Using the Four Pillars of Social, Economic, Cultural, and Envir
Environmental
Prof. Karen Starr, Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Overview: This paper examines new forms of educational accountability that measure and report against the four pillars of social, economic, cultural,
and environmental sustainability in schools.
The Envir
Environmental
onmental W
Worldviews
orldviews and Ecological Attitudes of Business Instructors
Dr. Robin Aspman-OCallaghan, School of Management, City University of Seattle, Lummi Island, USA
Overview: This study measures business educators' ethical attitudes on environmental sustainability with two validated measurement instruments; the
New Ecological Paradigm survey and the Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes Towards the Environment survey.
Futur
Futuree Managers’ A
Awar
wareness
eness Regar
Regarding
ding Envir
Environmental
onmental Standar
Standards:
ds: A Study in Eskisehir
Nazan Madak, Business Administration, Institution of Social Sciences, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Prof. A. Barıs Baraz, Division of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Management, and Organization Department, Faculty of Open Education,
Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Overview: This study investigates the awareness and sensitivity of future managers studying in the Business and Engineering Departments in
accordance with environmental and sustainable development.
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Room 3 Corporate Sustainability: Policy and Practice
Corporate Strategy for Sustainability: "Factor 3" Appr
Approach
oach at Henkel
Van Patterson, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Joe Knott, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Rob Melnick, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Overview: Multinational corporations are now stewards of sustainability. We took a deep dive into Henkel's strategy from the perspective of their senior
people and share interesting insights for future sustainability efforts.
Balancing Competing Objectives and Managing Change on Sustainability Initiatives
Patrick Leach, Decision Strategies Inc., Houston, USA
Overview: Sustainability strategies do no good if the company fails. Structured decision processes help to find the right balance between short- and
long-term objectives, and to rally support from diverse stakeholders.
Connecting Corporate Sustainability to Local Implementation by Engaging a Nationwide Network of V
Voluntary
oluntary Gr
Green
een T
Teams
eams
Alexandra J Setmajer, Office of Sustainability, HDR, Portland, USA
Overview: Flexible frameworks provide guidance, structure, and allow volunteers to pursue interests. Results are increased engagement towards
company sustainability goals. Program can be replicated in companies of varying industry and size.
Sustainable Advantage: Accelerating fr
from
om Regulatory Compliance to Envir
Environmental
Dr. Charles CC Lee, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Overview: This paper focuses on how companies can survive by pursuing environmental sustainability principles (e.g. zero-waste, life-cycle thinking,
climate change mitigation) and moving away from compliance-based practices that are inherently unsustainable.
Room 4 Workshops
School Gar
Gardens
dens for All: Diversity and Inclusion
Marna Hauk, Sustainability Education, Prescott College, Portland, USA
Dr. Dilafruz Williams, Leadership for Sustainability Education in Educational Leadership and Policy, Learning Gardens Laboratory, Portland State
University, Portland, USA
Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Sybil Kelley, Leadership for Sustainability Education in Educational Leadership and Policy, Learning Gardens Laboratory, Portland State University,
Portland, USA
Dr. Susan Gerofsky, Math Education and Curriculum and Pedagogy, UBC Orchard Garden, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Claire Lagerwey, Leadership for Sustainability Education in Educational Leadership and Policy, Learning Garden Laboratory, Portland State University,
Portland, USA
Overview: By their nature, gardens embody diversity. Together we will explore the cultural significance/value of school gardens for diverse communities
in restoring and reclaiming resilience. Herbal tea will be served.
Teaching about Just Sustainability: Experiencing the Urban Envir
Environment
onment
Dr. Lily Fessenden, Graduate School of Education, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA
Overview: Teaching urban sustainability through direct experience can effectively transform beliefs and practices. In this workshop, explore ways to
effectively integrate this learning model into your formal or informal teaching practice.
Room 5 Envir
Environmental
onmental Ethos
Islam's Envir
Environmental
onmental Ethos: Sustainable Lessons for Contemporary Society
Dr. Cyril Orji, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Dayton, Dayton, USA
Overview: This paper argues that 112th chapter is a prototype of Quranic verses that are integrally placed to constitute meanings that determine the
praxis of human life—human trusteeship of the earth.
The Conscious Human Ecological Experience: Conscious Design and the Evolution of the Built Envir
Environment
onment
Beau Dunavant IV, Regenerative Revolution, Denver, USA
Overview: Conscious design is the act of using our conscious human ecological experience as a tool within the design, or redesign, of the built
environment.
Living Systems: The Heart and Soul of Envir
Environmental
onmental Education
Milt Markewitz, Portland, USA
Overview: Living Systems are readily understood and taught, and offer a key to understanding the consciousness of cultures that have lived in balance
and harmony with the earth for millennia.
The Need for a Holistic Appr
Approach
oach to Carbon Reduction in New Pr
Product
oduct Development
Prof. Peter Ford, The Design Unit, Design Innovation Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Overview: This paper discusses the necessity to adopt a holistic approach to innovative problem solving in new product development to achieving
carbon reduction in manufacture beyond the easy and the obvious.
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ANUARY
Y
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 6 Workshop
10:30-12:10
The Decolonialization of Sustainable Business Curriculum: Expanding Our V
Vision
ision of a Sustainable Futur
Futuree
Dr. Kathryn Lancaster, School of Business, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA
Krista Carroll, School of Business, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA
Overview: Business curriculum largely reflects our paternal and colonial history. This workshop will help participants identify resources to include other
cultural perspectives of businesses’ role in a sustainable future.
12:10-13:10
LUNCH
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 1 Experiential Lear
Learning
ning and Sustainability Education
13:10-14:50
Teaching Sustainability in a Global Context: Lessons fr
from
om a Short-term Study Abr
Abroad
oad Pr
Program
ogram in Bangladesh
Dr. Giacomo Gambino, Political Science Department, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
Dr. Mohsin Hashim, Political Science Department, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
Overview: Our paper argues that a well-designed short-study abroad experience positively impacts student understanding of global environmental and
sustainable development issues, and deepens and complicates their ethical commitments as global citizens.
Study Abr
Abroad
oad as a Platform for Sustainability Education
Dr. Heather Van Wormer, Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA
Dr. Gwyn Madden, Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA
Overview: Examining the teaching of sustainability, we draw data from study abroad programs in Ukraine (archaeology) and New Zealand (anthropology).
We discuss this type of experiential learning approach in sustainability education.
Social Sustainability: An Engaged Appr
Approach
oach to the Overlooked Pillar
Lori Cramer, Sociology Program, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Derric Jacobs, Sociology Program, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Overview: We offer insights from an innovative course utilizing experiential learning, from both campus-based and online learning environments, to
advance students’ deeper understanding of the complex pillar of social sustainability.
The Contribution of Non-formal Education for T
Training
raining T
Teacher
eacher in Education for Sustainable Development in V
Vietnam:
ietnam: A Case Study
Kinh Kieu, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto City, Japan
Dr. Jane Singer, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto City, Japan
Overview: This paper discusses a case study exploring how a teacher training institution in Vietnam can effectively augment formal education with nonformal education (NFE) approaches to promote education for sustainable development.
Room 2 Sustainable Urban Development, Management, and Per
Perception
ception
Exploring Neighborhood Livability Based on Subjective Per
Perceptions
ceptions of Dif
Differ
ferent
ent User Gr
Groups
oups
Dr. Kien To, Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Asst. Prof. Keng Hua Chong, Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Mihye Cho, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Assoc. Prof. Bige Tunçer, Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Overview: This paper reviews global livability indices and explores new livability conceptualization, measurement, and applications at the neighborhood
level based on subjective perceptions of different users toward livable and sustainable cities.
“All That Matters Is Building Mega Pr
Projects
ojects for the One Per
Percenters”:
centers”: The Entr
Entrepr
epreneurial
eneurial City and the Spatial Politics of Citizenship
Dr. Mike Ripmeester, Department of Geography, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
Overview: This paper explores St. Catharines residents' responses to the material and symbolic transformation of its downtown as urban managers
attempt to bolster sagging economic fortunes.
Urban Practice and Shar
Shared
ed Lear
Learning:
ning: The Design Pr
Process
ocess of Urbanizing of Slums
Nagirley Kessin, University of São Paulo, Salvador, Brazil
Overview: This paper addresses the design process as a logical series fostered by participatory dynamics in the urbanising projects of two slums in the
city of Salvador.
Is High-density Development Sustainable Urban Form? A Footprint Study of T
Transportation
ransportation in Finland, V
Vietnam,
ietnam, and New Zealand
Dr. Han Thuc Tran, THULE Institute, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Prof. Brenda Vale, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Prof. Robert Vale, School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Eva Pongracz, NorTech Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Overview: Using ecological footprint measurement, this paper examines the environmental impact of domestic travel and what forms the largest part of
the individual transport footprint in Vietnam, New Zealand, and Finland.
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 3 Consumption, Design, and Sustainability
13:10-14:50
Collaborating and Sharing: Ecodesign with No Economic T
Transactions
ransactions Nor Object Design
Prof. Lucas Rafael Ivorra Peñafort, Department of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogotá, Colombia
Overview: Ecodesign allows creating products and services that reduce environmental impacts in their life cycle. But ecodesign transcends the
processes of an organization, as a sustainable strategy.
The Cost of Buying Local: The Importance of Community in Sustainability
Angela Kehler, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada
Overview: With the objective of living deliberately, I began my "buy local" project. For one year I contributed my buying power to the local economy
testing the practicality of this lifestyle.
An Investigation of Y
Young
oung New Zealanders' Envir
Environmental
onmental A
Awar
wareness
eness and Its Impact on Their Consumption Practices
Joanne Bailey, University of Western Sydney, Hamilton, New Zealand
Overview: With local and global environmental challenges, I am cautious as to how young people understand meaning around their own, and others,
consumption actions in response to on-going ecological issues.
A Qualitative Deconstruction of Consumerism: The Sear
Search
ch for Community
Kaitlyn Holyman, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Brian Bishop, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Dr. Peta Dzidic, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Overview: This study deconstructs the worldviews, myths, and metaphors that underlie the behaviors of western consumers, revealing a deep longing
for meaningful human and community connection.
Room 4 For
Forest
est Conservation and Envir
Environmental
onmental Management
Small and Micr
Micro
o For
Forest
est Enterprises for Sustainable For
Forest
est Development
Dr. Nataraju Mukhahally Siddegowda, Regional Centre, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Bangalore, India
Overview: SMFE were implemented, to upscale community participation, establish a sustainable system of income generation activities based on the
available forest resources, and promote growth, development in forest fringe villages.
Assessing the Ef
Effectiveness
fectiveness of Community-based For
Forest
est Management in Souther
Southern
n Burkina Faso
Daniel Etongo, Viikki Tropical Resources Institute, Department of Forest Sciences, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
Overview: This paper assesses the effectiveness of community forest management.
Sustainable Gr
Groundwater
oundwater Management on Small Islands under T
Tsunami
sunami Events: A Case Study of Niijima Island, Japan
Liu Jiaqi, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, Japan
Overview: This study focuses on utilizing survived groundwater as emergency water resource under tsunami scenarios, and sustainable management
for long-term recovery plan.
Changes in V
Vegetation
egetation over T
Time
ime in the Cacheu River Mangr
Mangroves
oves Natural Park in Guinea Bissau: A Contribution to Sustainable
Management
Prof. Eva García del Toro, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Maria Isabel Mas, Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Overview: This paper studies the environmental management of the Cacheu River Mangroves Natural Park using vegetation rates and their evolution
over time.
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 5 Supporting Social Sustainability
13:10-14:50
Sustainable Schools and Questions of Social Equity
Zeinab Amiri, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Amritha Rajan, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Tripti Upreti, Iowa State Univesity, Ames, USA
Dr. Andrea Wheeler, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Overview: We analyze and synthesize two different, but related discourses, sustainable schools and equal education, and converge them to argue for
sustainable schools’ practices and equal education opportunities for children.
Sustainable Y
Youth
outh Development in Context: Pr
Promoting
omoting Equity thr
through
ough Y
Youth
outh Engagement
Rhen Miles, Research and Evaluation, Camp Fire Columbia, Portland, USA
Dr. Kevin Jones, Research and Evaluation, Camp Fire Columbia, Portland, USA
Overview: This paper provides a conceptual overview of youth development in the context of sustainability and equitable practices. Learn how one
youth development non-profit is shifting towards participatory methods.
Obstructed Use: Re-conceptualizing the Mental Health (Help Seeking) Experiences for Under
Under-r
-resour
esourced,
ced, Black American Childr
Children
en and
Their Families
Christopher Ashley Burkett, Graduate Program in Social Work and Social Research, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Overview: Historical trauma, environmental toxicity, culturally-bound economic insecurity, and cultural mistrust are discussed as central concepts in an
examination about the mental health help-seeking experiences of under-resourced Black American families.
The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises and Agricultural Cooperatives in Pr
Promoting
omoting Sustainable Agricultur
Agriculturee for Rural Development and
Food Security
Dr. Shekar Bose, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Dr. Omar Salim al-Jabri, Department of Natural Resource Economics, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat,
Oman
Nadia M. Osman, Sustainable Development Research Program, The Research Council, Muscat, Oman
Dr. Saoud H Al Habsi, Environmental and Biological Sector, The Research Council, Muscat, Oman
Rashid Al Shidi, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman
Overview: This study investigates the possibilities of developing SMEs and Cooperatives as contributors to the sustainability of the agricultural sector,
rural development, and food security mainly in rural villages in Oman.
Room 6 Late Additions
Integrating Sustainability into Engineering and Construction Curricula thr
through
ough Modular and Course-based Methods
Dr. Claire Louise Antaya Dancz, Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Kevin Ketchman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Rebekah Burke, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Elizabeth Adams, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, USA
Braden Allenby, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Thomas Seager, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Dr. Amy Landis, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Overview: This paper discusses integrating sustainability into Engineering and Construction Curricula, focusing on lessons learned from researchextensive and community colleges implementing sustainability using module and stand-alone course methods.
Local Climate Planning in Colorado: Community Behavior Change Interventions to Mitigate Household Carbon Emissions
Dr. Ann Scheerer, Sustainability Double Degree Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Overview: The evolution of local climate planning in Colorado is explored in this study of twenty-two Colorado municipalities, focusing on design and
implementation of behavioral interventions to reduce household carbon emissions.
Or
Oregon
egon State University’
University’ss Sustainability Double Degr
Degree
ee Pr
Program:
ogram: Pr
Preparing
eparing Students to T
Tackle
ackle Complex Social, Envir
Environmental,
onmental, and
Economic Issues
Dr. Megan Mobley, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Sustainability Double Degree Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Kim Townsend, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Sustainability Double Degree Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Dr. Ann Scheerer, Sustainability Double Degree Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Overview: Oregon State University has a unique program for undergraduates to obtain a BS in Sustainability in conjunction with a primary major. We
describe the program’s structure, challenges, and successes.
14:50-15:05
BREAK
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Y
Room 1 Youth Sustainability Education
Sustainable Y
You!
ou! Kids Camp
Dr. Roslynn Brain, Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, Moab, USA
Overview: Interested in teaching about sustainability through a positive lens? This paper discuss a five-day camp (including free curricula) geared
towards helping youth improve their environmental footprint.
Place-based Education and the Cr
Creation
eation of Sustainable Communities
Dr. Gregory A. Smith, Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, USA
Overview: Place-based education, an approach to curriculum development that focuses on local phenomena and community needs, engages students
in studies and projects that can contribute to local and regional sustainability.
Natur
Naturee Play as a Formative Experience in the Development of Natur
Nature-center
e-centered
ed Leaders
Dr. Spencer S. Stober, Graduate Studies, Alvernia University, Reading, USA
Dr. Alicia H. Sprow, Holleran Center for Community Engagement, Alvernia University, Reading, USA
Overview: This paper challenges us to reflect on our relationship with nature while exploring ways to provide nature-centered experiences for children
and young adults to facilitate their development as nature-centered leaders.
Earth Day: Celebrate CommUNITY
Dr. Katherine Anderson, Naturopathic Medicine, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Tulsa, USA
Dr. Steven M. Tipton, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Mechanical Engineering, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA
Overview: Earth Day: Celebrate CommUNITY is a sustainability and STEM focused event initiative driving change in the Tulsa community through the
collaboration and support of parents, teachers, academic institutions, and businesses.
Room 2 Agricultural Sustainability
Adopting Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the State of Georgia: Key Drivers and Barriers
Amanpreet Gohal, Human Development and Organizational Systems, Fielding Graduate University, Alexandria, USA
Overview: Agriculture is the state of Georgia’s largest industry, but it faces major challenges from the demands of rising organic consumption. This
research enables a sustainable agriculture paradigm for the region.
Sustainable Agricultur
Agriculturee Elements That Support Agritourism and Conservation in Rural Chiangkhan, Thailand
Dr. Rungnapha Khamung, Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism, Silparkon University, Bangkok, Thailand
Prof. Po Siu Hsu, Landscape Architecture Program, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
Overview: Urban areas are intrinsically linked to their rural proximity. This study explores the elements of sustainable agricultural practices, farmers’
knowledge on sustainability, and farmers’ sensitivity to conservation for agritourism development.
Choice Experiment Model for Pr
Producers’
oducers’ Pr
Prefer
eferences
ences for Cr
Crop
op Diversification in the Cof
Coffee
fee Sector of Nicaragua
Aniseh Bro, Department of Community Sustainability, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, Lansing, USA
Overview: This research estimates the willingness of coffee farmers in Nicaragua to adopt sustainable production practices that will help them build
adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change.
Pr
Promoting
omoting Organic Farming by Collective Action: A Case Study in T
Taiwan
aiwan
Ai-Ching Yen, Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Yin-An Chen, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Overview: This paper interprets how farmers in a cooperative promote organic farming by collective actions, analyses the dilemma of this cooperative,
and attempts to solve such problems for the cooperative's reference.
SAATURDA
TURDAY
Y, 23 JANUAR
ANUARY
Y
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 3 Community Per
Perception
ception and Cooperation
15:05-16:45
Conditional Cooperation and "Not in My Back Y
Yar
ard"
d" Pr
Projects:
ojects: An Empirical Analysis of How the T
Tendency
endency to Engage in Conditional
Cooperation Can Af
Affect
fect Support for W
Wind
ind Farms
Asst. Prof. Ross Leupp Hanig, Pamplin School of Business, University of Portland, Portland, USA
Assoc. Prof. Charles Nelson, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Overview: Our survey research finds that tapping into people’s tendency to be conditionally cooperative can be used to decrease opposition to wind
farms in prospective host communities.
Tourism Impacts and Community T
Tourism
ourism Development: A Case in T
Tainan
ainan
Heng Zhang, Department of Architecture, Institute of Environmental and Behavioral Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Ting-Hsuan Tsao, Department of Architecture, Institute of Environmental and Behavioral Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Overview: This study explores the relationship between tourism impacts and residents' attitudes to make proper development of community tourism
and construct a sustainable community development.
An Estimation of the Elasticity Demand for T
Tap
ap W
Water:
ater: Data fr
from
om T
Tax
ax Rolls and a Survey
Dr. Russ Kashian, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, USA
Dr. Jeff Heinrich, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, USA
Andrew Kueffer, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Overview: This paper studies the effects of water pricing on two tiers of consumers finding that heavy users are less price-sensitive to the price of water
than normal users.
Sustainability Literacy: The Missing Starting Point for Critical Conversations and Ef
Effective
fective Actions
Dr. Angela Ragusa, School Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Dr. Andrea Crampton, School Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Overview: This paper is an illustrative example of people's understanding of sustainability and how it does and does not impact their daily actions and
decisions and sustainability campaign effectiveness.
Room 4 The Science and T
Technology
echnology of Envir
Environmental
A Solar Hybrid System for Heating Alkaline Solutions Used for Cleaning Milk Hauling T
Tanks
anks
Jose Manuel Elizundia Álvarez, Lala Transportadora, S.A. de CV, Gomez Palacio, Mexico
Overview: This study explores the use of a solar hybrid system for heating alkaline solutions used to clean milk hauling tanks in a fresh milk collecting
company in Mexico.
Sustainable T
Textile
extile W
Wastewater
astewater T
Trreatment T
Technique
echnique via Hybrid Membrane Pr
Process
ocess Application
Dr. Hamidreza Rashidi, Sustainability Science Research Cluster, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nik Meriam Nik Sulaiman, Sustainability Science Research Cluster, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nur Awanis Hashim, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Overview: The proposed hybrid membrane filtration in this study, performed the highest efficiency in least operational time in textile industry wastewater
treatment area and met sustainability parameters in related fields.
The Ef
Effect
fect of Demand V
Variability
ariability and Generating Cost on the Deployment of Integrated Renewable Energy Systems
Efosa Osaghae, Energy Research Institute, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Andrew Heyes, Energy Research Institute, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dr. Benjamin Chong, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Overview: This paper addresses seasonal changes in load demand and variations in fuel cost on the optimum design of hybrid systems and the
greenhouse gas emissions reduction it enables.
Engineering a Sustainable Self
Dr. Mirsha Manuel Trujillo Trujillo, Sulisk Limited, St Lawrence, UK
Hanna L A G Malouf, Research, Sulisk Limited, St Lawrence, UK
Overview: An engineering framework is proposed to analyze and optimize the effects of a person on the environment. When such effects are neutral or
positive, that person has achieved sustainability.
SAATURDA
TURDAY
Y, 23 JANUAR
ANUARY
Y
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 5 Post-secondary Curriculums for Sustainability
15:05-16:45
Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Place-based Space for Envir
Environment,
onment, Economy
Economy,, Cultur
Culture,
e, and Pedagogy
Prof. James Aaron Gregson, Education and Environmental Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
Overview: Using a critical place-based pedagogy as a theoretical lens, this paper reports progress and barriers to advancing a space, curriculum, and
instruction to practice an education for sustainable development.
Developing a Robust Assessment T
Tool
ool for Sustainability Education
Nathaniel Millard, California State University Chico, Chico, USA
Prof. Colleen Hatfield, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Chico, Chico, USA
Prof. James Pushnik, Institute of Sustainable Development, California State University Chico, Chico, USA
Overview: For three years CSU Chico collected data using multiple methods to develop an interdisciplinary assessment toolkit for college campuses. We
discuss highlights of our efforts and the path forward.
A Complexity-based Supradisciplinary Appr
Approach
oach to Sustainability Education
Dr. Will Focht, Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
Dr. Steve Kolmes, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Portland, Portland, USA
Overview: This paper describes sustainability education that embraces supradisciplinary pedagogy and a complexity-enhancing curriculum to holistically
understand relationships among environmental and human social systems to achieve sustainable improvements to community well-being.
Changing Hearts and Minds thr
through
ough T
Transformative
ransformative Education: Gr
Growing
owing Pr
Pre-service
e-service T
Teachers
eachers for Sustainability in W
Wester
estern
n Sydney
Dr. Brenda Dobia, School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Overview: Transformative social-ecological learning principles integrate experiential, inquiry-based, creative, digital, and collaborative methodologies.
This paper demonstrates their use for building systems awareness, democratizing education, empowering learners, and promoting active citizenship.
16:45-17:15
SPECIAL EVENT – CLOSING AND AWARD CEREMONY
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Jeffery
Adams
University of Houston-Downtown
USA
Vishaka
Agarwal
National Institute of Fashion Technology
India
Abiola Waliyu
Aiyeola
Administrative staff college of Nigeria (ASCON)
Nigeria
Wajeha
Al-Ani
Sultan Qaboos University
Oman
Omar Salim
al-Jabri
Sultan Qaboos University
Oman
Manar
Alattar
Portland State University
USA
Fletcher
Alexander
California State University, Chico
USA
Jennifer
Allen
USA
Katherine
Anderson
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
USA
Leann
Andrews
UW Green Futures Lab
USA
Michael
Armstrong
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
USA
Robin
Aspman-OCallaghan
City University of Seattle
USA
Cinthia
Avila
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
Mexico
Britni
Ayers
University of Arkansas
USA
Habib
Azarabadi
Arizona State University
USA
Joanne
Bailey
University of Western Sydney
New Zealand
Shawn
Banasick
Kobe College
Japan
Ryan
Bender
USA
Ahlia
Bethea
University of Southern California
USA
Phil
Blankenship
Lazy B Ranch
USA
Judy
BlueHorse Skelton
USA
Rebecca
Boger
Brooklyn College, CUNY
USA
Pedro Andrés
Bohórquez Pulido
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
Sarah
Boyks
University of Cumbria and
Austria
MED-EL Medical Electronics
Roslynn
Brain
Utah State University
USA
Eileen Muench
Brennan
USA
Gabriella
Brill
Pacific University
USA
Aniseh
Bro
Michigan State University
USA
Christopher Ashley Burkett
USA
Allison
Callow
Skyline College
USA
Joshua
Cannon
Providence Day School
USA
Charles
Carnohan
Bureau of Reclamation
USA
Lynne
Carpenter-Boggs
Washington State University
USA
Ronald
Carson
International Council on Systems Engineering
USA
Ana Cristina
Carvalho
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Brazil
Brett
Cease
University of Texas at Dallas
USA
Doris
Cellarius
Biofuels Task Force of IUCN’s Commission on
USA
Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Karen
Cellarius
USA
Camilo
Cerro
American University of Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
Yin-An
Chen
National Chengchi University
Taiwan
Carla
Chifos
University of Cincinnati
USA
Uday
Chipalkatty
Dr. B.N. College of Architecture for Women
India
Hyunhong
Choi
Seoul National University
South Korea
Tom
Colley
University of Western Sydney
Australia
Cindy
Cooper
USA
Linda
Cornwell
University of South Africa
South Africa
Charlie
Corwin
University of Illinois at Chicago
USA
Lori
Cramer
Oregon State University
USA
David
Crutchfield
North Dakota State University
USA
Marsha R.
Cuddeback
Louisiana State University
USA
Austin
Dada
University of Alabama at Birmingham
USA
Pamela
Danvers Morrison
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Darla Drew
Darla Drew
City of Rapid City
USA
Jommar
de Guzman
University of Santo Tomas
Philippines
Heather
DeGrella
Opsis Architecture
USA
SydneyDeLuna
Ecotrust
USA
Jenny
Dempsey Stein
PSU and Lewis and Clark College
USA
Michael
Di Giovine
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
USA
Mohamed El Mehdi Diouri
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
United Arab Emirates
Brenda
Dobia
Western Sydney University
Australia
Holly
Duckworth
Sherpa, Inc. - A Benefit Company
USA
Veronica
Dujon
USA
Beau
Dunavant IV
Regenerative Revolution
USA
Stephanie
Ebersohl
Common Ground Publishing
USA
Eirik Heikes
Eirik Heikes
City of Rapid City
USA
Carlton
Eley
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
USA
Jose Manuel
Elizundia Álvarez
LALA Transportes, SA de CV, Grupo LALA
Mexico
Scott A.
Ellis
Newcastle University
UK
Daniel
Etongo
Helsinki University, Finland
Finland
Maximilian M.
Etschmaier
San Diego State University
USA
Xinyi
Fang
Michigan State University
USA
Patricia
Farnese
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Gretchen
Ferguson
Simon Fraser University
Canada
Beth-Anne
Ferley
City of Rapid City
USA
Dan Richard
Fernandez
University of the Philippines-College of
Philippines
Social Work and Community Development
Felipe de Souza
Ferreira
USA
Lily
Fessenden
Lesley University
USA
Carlos
Fiorentino
University of Alberta
Canada
Will
Focht
Oklahoma State University
USA
Robert
Forbis
Texas Tech University
USA
Peter
Ford
De Montfort University
UK
Claudia
Frere-Anderson
University of Washington
USA
Kate
Galloway
James Cook University
Australia
Giacomo
Gambino
Muhlenberg College
USA
Eva
García del Toro
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Spain
Susan
Gerofsky
University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
Canada
Jess
Gerrior
Antioch University New England
USA
Geoff
Ghitter
University of Calgary
Canada
Amanpreet
Gohal
Fielding Graduate University
USA
Michael
Goldstein
University of California, Los Angeles
USA
Frank D.
Granshaw
USA
Timothy
Gray
Ball State University
USA
Jacen
Greene
USA
James Aaron
Gregson
University of Idaho
USA
Sankalp
Gupta
Iowa State University
USA
Evan
Gutierrez
USA
Thinley
Gyatso
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India
Heather W.
Hackman
Hackman Consulting Group
USA
Mohsin
Hashim
Muhlenberg College
USA
Björn
Hassler
Södertörn University
Sweden
Sven
Hassler
University West
Sweden
Colleen
Hatfield
California State University Chico
USA
Marna
Hauk
Prescott College
USA
Ellison
Heil
Muhlenberg College
USA
Jeff
Heinrich
University of Wisconsin Whitewater
USA
William
Hetrick
Bethel University
USA
Alexandra Marie
Hezik
Western Kentucky University
USA
Michael James
Hill
US Army
USA
Alexandra
Hoffman
University of Oregon School of Law
USA
Kaitlyn
Holyman
Curtin University
Australia
Kirstie
Hostetter
University of Georgia
USA
Po Siu
Hsu
Oklahoma State University
USA
MingHu
AIA
USA
Yu-Chuan
Hu
National Cheng Kung University
Taiwan
Stella Y.
Hua
Western Washington University
USA
Gul
Inanc
Nanynag Technological University
Singapore
Lucas Rafael
Ivorra Peñafort
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Colombia
Derric
Jacobs
USA
Krista
Jacobsen
University of Kentucky
USA
Liu
Jiaqi
The University of Tokyo
Japan
Ruth
Johnston
USA
Franklin
Jones
B-Line Urban Delivery
USA
Kevin
Jones
University of Portland
USA
Peter
Jones
James Cook University
Australia
JiYeon
Jung
South Korea
Phillip
Kalantzis-Cope
USA
Jim
Kalvelage
Opsis Architecture LLP
USA
Nicole
Karsch
Muhlenberg College
USA
Susan
Kart
Lehigh University
USA
BarbaraKauffman
Independent
USA
Ralph
Kauffman
University of Houston-Downtown
USA
Jared
Kawatani
Pacific University
USA
Angela
Kehler
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada
Sybil
Kelley
USA
Noel
Keough
Canada
Nagirley
Kessin
Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Urbano da Bahia
Brazil
Rungnapha
Khamung
Burapha University International College
Thailand
Jam Shahzaib
Khan
University of Mississippi
USA
Muhammad
Khan
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Pakistan
Kinh
Kieu
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Japan
Kyoto University
Lester
King
Rice University
USA
Kaitlin
Kinsella
USA
Patricija
Kirvaitis
USA
Steve
Kolmes
USA
Jacqueline
Kozak-Thiel
City of Fort Collins
USA
Shamiso
Kumbirai
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Claire
Lagerwey
USA
Kathryn
Lancaster
Humboldt State University
USA
Amy
Landis
Clemson University
USA
Jessica
Lantgen
City of Sioux Falls
USA
Patrick
Leach
Decision Strategies Inc.
USA
Charles CC
Lee
University of Newcastle (Australia)
Singapore
Ross
Leupp Hanig
USA
Rosemary
Logan
Northern Arizona University
USA
Anabel
Lopez Salinas
USA
Frank
Lorne
New York Institute of Technology-Vancouver
Canada
Ross
Louis
Xavier University of Louisiana
USA
Gregory
Lowan-Trudeau
Canada
Miho
Lowan-Trudeau
Canada
Matthew
Lunde
University of Wyoming
USA
Nazan
Madak
Anadolu University
Turkey
Gwyn
Madden
Grand Valley State University
USA
Tariq
Mahmud
Institute of Chemistry
Pakistan
Teresita
Majewski
Statistical Research, Inc.
USA
Valeria
Makarova
California Lutheran University
USA
Michael
Margolis
Universidad de Guanajuato
Mexico
Alexandra
Maris
University of Toronto
Canada
Milt
Markewitz
American Indian Institute
USA
Maria Isabel
Universidad Politencia de Madrid
Spain
DarianMcBain
Mas
-
Australia
Jane
McQuitty
Canada
Stephen
Meder
University of Hawaii
USA
Jana L.
Meinhold
USA
Elizabeth
Mendenhall
Johns Hopkins University
USA
Lu
Miao
Nagoya University
Japan
Rhen
Miles
Camp Fire Columbia
USA
Nathaniel
Millard
CSU Chico
USA
Megan
Mobley
USA
Alisa
Moldavanova
Wayne State University
USA
HyungBin
Moon
South Korea
Bhakti
More
Manipal University, United Arab Emirates
Dubai & University of Salford, Manchester, UK
E. Pierre
Morenon
Rhode Island College
USA
Stephen
Morris
University of San Francisco
USA
Jeni
Morrison
Straughan Environmental, Inc.
USA
Cathryn
Morriss
University of the Sunshine Coast
Australia
Nataraju
Mukhahally Siddegowda University of Agricultural Sciences,
India
Joy
Murray
University of Sydney
Australia
George
Newlands
American University of Sharjah
USA
Christina
Nicolaidis
USA
Richard
Niesenbaum
Muhlenberg College
USA
Lolita
Nikolova
International Institute of Anthropology
USA
Kevin
Nute
University of Oregon
USA
Cyril
Orji
The University of Dayton
USA
Mark
Orrs
Lehigh University
USA
Efosa
Osaghae
University of Leeds
UK
Youngjun Stephen Park
South Korea
Nirav
Patel
Cornell University
USA
Van
Patterson
Arizona State University
USA
Kathleen
Pepple
North Dakota State University
USA
Cornell
Pewewardy
USA
Alexander
Plum
The Global Health Initiative
USA
Daisy R.
Porrazzo
Alvernia University
USA
James
Pushnik
California State Unversity Chico
USA
Angela
Ragusa
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Amritha
Rajan
Iowa State University
USA
Hamidreza
Rashidi
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Carl
Reller
Wairarapa local authorities
New Zealand
Mike
Ripmeester
Brock University
Canada
Zachary M.
Romano
Springer
USA
Nancy D.
Rottle
USA
Vera Jane
Ruffato-Ferreira
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Michaela
Ruppert
GRID Alternatives
USA
Justine
Russo
PITT OHIO
USA
Emily
Ryan
University of Wollongong
Australia
John
Ryan
Edith Cowan University
Australia
Fred P.
Saunders
Södertörns University
Sweden
Ann
Scheerer
USA
Alexandra J
Setmajer
HDR
USA
Jeffrey
Seward
Hillsborough Regional Transity Authority (HART)
USA
Fatma
Sherif
Agriculture College-Elshatby. Alexandria University
Egypt
Hongchi
Shiau
Shih-Hsin University
Taiwan
Mollie R.
Simon
The University of Georgia
USA
Sirotkin
USA
Peter
Sleszynski
Hillsborough Community College
USA
Gregory A.
Smith
Lewis & Clark College
USA
J’nai D. M.
Spencer
Environmental Awareness Group of
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua & Barbuda
Jamie E.L.
Spinney
Saint Mary’s University
Canada
Alicia H.
Sprow
Alvernia University
USA
Judith Chelius
Stark
Seton Hall University
USA
Karen
Starr
Deakin University
Australia
Spencer S.
Stober
Alvernia University
USA
Eric
Stottlemyer
Wake Forest University
USA
Eva Ludwiga
Szalay
Weber State University; US Air Force
USA
Spencer
Taggart
US Geological Survey
USA
Lilian Y.
Taiwo
Adonai Chambers. A.I Shodeinde& Co. Nigeria
Legal Practitioners, Solicitors and Advocates.
PhillipThompson
USA
Magnus
Thorsson
Johnson & Wales University
USA
Han
Thuc Tran
University of Oulu
Finland
Steven M.
Tipton
University of Tulsa
USA
Kien
To
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Singapore
Evan Edward
Townsend
University of Wyoming
USA
Kim
Townsend
USA
Mirsha Manuel
Trujillo Trujillo
SULISK LIMITED
UK
Ting-Hsuan
Tsao
Institute of Environmental and Behavioral Studies
Taiwan
Helen
Turner
University of Kentucky
USA
Elaine
Ulett
Oxford Brookes University
UK
Patrick
Van Inwegen
Whitworth University
USA
Heather
Van Wormer
Grand Valley State University
USA
Robert J.
Waller
Alvernia University
USA
Elliott
Wezerek
USA
ThomasWiedmann
Australia
Eva
Wieners
University of Hamburg
Germany
Christopher
Wilhelm
USA
Adam
Williams
Kennesaw State University
USA
Dilafruz
Williams
USA
Chester
Wilson
University of St. Thomas
USA
Sheri
Woo
SHN Enigneers & Geologists
USA
Natalya
Yakusheva
Sodertorn University
Sweden
Ai-Ching
Yen
National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan
ScottYoung
Polsinelli
USA
Farrukh
Zaman
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
USA
Phyo Phyo
Zin
Berea College
USA
Gabor
Zovanyi
Eastern Washington University
USA
On Sustainability Notes
| Conference Calendar 2016–2017
Technology, Knowledge & Society
Inaugural International Conference on
Tourism & Leisure Studies
Tenth International Conference on
Design Principles & Practices
Seventh International Conference on
Sport & Society
Sixth International Conference on
Religion & Spirituality in Society
Fourteenth International Conference
on New Directions in the Humanities
Sixth International Conference on the
Constructed Environment
Ninth Global Studies Conference
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18–19 February 2016
www.techandsoc.com/2016-conference
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC–Rio)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25–27 February 2016
www.designprinciplesandpractices.com/2016-conference
The Catholic University of America
Washington D.C., USA | 22–23 March 2016
www.religioninsociety.com/2016-conference
The University of Arizona
Tucson, USA | 2–4 April 2016
www.constructedenvironment.com/2016-conference
Sixteenth International Conference on
Knowledge, Culture & Change in
Organizations
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, USA | 19–20 April 2016
www.organization-studies.com/2016-conference
Eighth International Conference on
Climate Change: Impacts & Responses
VNU University of Science (HUS) and
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)
Hanoi, Vietnam | 21-22 April 2016
www.on-climate.com/2016-conference
Honolulu, USA | 22-23 April 2016
www.tourismandleisurestudies.com/2016-conference
Honolulu, USA | 2-3 June 2016
www.sportandsociety.com/2016-conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, USA | 8-10 June 2016
www.thehumanities.com/2016-conference
Los Angeles, USA | 30 June-1 July 2016
www.onglobalization.com/2016-conference
Twenty-third International Conference
on Learning
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada | 13-15 July 2016
www.thelearner.com/2016-conference
Sixteenth International Conference
on Diversity in Organizations,
Communities & Nations
The University of Granada
Granada, Spain | 27-29 July 2016
www.ondiversity.com/2016-conference
| Conference Calendar 2016–2017
Eleventh International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Aging & Society: Sixth Interdisciplinary
Conference
Eleventh International Conference on
the Arts in Society
Food Studies
the Image
Health, Wellness & Society
Inaugural Communication & Media
Studies Conference
Spaces & Flows: Seventh International
Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban
Studies
Imperial College London
London, UK | 2-4 August 2016
www.thesocialsciences.com/2016-conference
Los Angeles, USA | 10-12 August 2016
www.artsinsociety.com/2016-conference
Art and Design Academy,
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool, UK | 1-2 September 2016
www.ontheimage.com/2016-conference
University Center Chicago
Chicago, USA | 15-16 September, 2016
www.oncommunicationmedia.com/2016-conference
Ninth International Conference on the
Inclusive Museum
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Cincinnati, USA | 16-19 September 2016
www.onmuseums.com/2016-conference
Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden | 6-7 October 2016
www.agingandsociety.com/2016-conference
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, USA | 12-13 October 2016
www.food-studies.com/2016-conference
Catholic University of America
Washington D.C., USA | 20-21 October 2016
www.healthandsociety.com/2016-conference
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA | 10-11 November 2016
www.spacesandflows.com/2016-conference
Seventeenth International Conference
on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in
Organizations
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Australia | 20-21 April 2017
www.organization-studies.com/2017-conference
Call for Papers
Thirteenth International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural,
Economic & Social Sustainability
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