1.
Sustainable
Development:
Meaning
&
Metrics
ISCN
Session
on
Measuring
Work
and
Performance
of
the
University
Nazli
Choucri
PoliCcal
Science
-­‐
MIT
Director
–
GSSD@MIT
ISCN
2014
Media
Lab,
MIT,
June
3,
2014
Global
System
for
Sustainable
Development

2.
Meanings
&
Metrics
•
Core
Concept
•
Rio
Framing
•
Expanded
Concepts
• The
Parts
&
The
Whole
•
Boundaries
•
Standardiza8on
-­‐
Comparisons
•
The
Value
of
Metrics
&
Measures
•
Metrics
for
&
of
What?
•
Loads/capabili8es
• Constraints,
Context,
&
Customiza8on
• Global
System
for
Sustainable
Development
(GSSD)
NChoucri-­‐-­‐MIT

3. NChoucri-­‐-­‐MIT

4. 1. A
strategy
for
integraCng
&
organizing
knowledge
in
a
domain
of
interest
in
mulC-­‐sector,
and
internaConal
terms;
2
A
method
to
represent
this
knowledge
by
a
plurality
of
interrelated
concepts,
and
interrelaConships
that
are
organized
in
internally
consistent
and
hierarchical
form
3 A
set
of
selecCon
and
retrieval
funcConaliCes
consisCng
of
search
engines
and
browsers
which
operate
over
the
system’s
quality-­‐
controlled
knowledge
base;
4. Enhanced
capabiliCes
enabling
alternaCve
mulC-­‐lingual
knowledge
provision,
search,
&
navigaCon
capabiliCes;
What
is
GSSD?

5. Site
OrganizaCon:
>
<GSSD.MIT.edu>

6. Knowledge
Base
on
Sustainable
Development*
• Concept
&
Theories
• Indicators
&
Measures
• Models
&
Case
Studies
• Agreements
&
OrganizaCons
• Policy,
Strategy
&
Responses
*Abstracts
(with
key
words)
and
link
to
sources.

7. Popula8on
Consump8on
Unmet
Basic
Needs
Migra8on
Urbaniza8on
Energy
Water
Land
Agriculture
Industry
&
Manufacturing
Trace
&
Finance
Mobility
&
Transport
P
R
P
R
T
T
Governance
&
InsCtuCons
Conflict,
Violence
&
War
Simplified
RepresentaCon
of
GSSD
Knowledge
Content:
System
Supports
System
Damages
<GSSD.MIT.edu>
Dimensions
of
Sustainable
Development

8. <GSSD.MIT.edu>
Domains
of
Sustainability

9. <GSSD.MIT.edu>
Dimensions
of
Sustainability

10.
<GSSD.MIT.edu>
Domains
&
Dimensions
of
Sustainability

11. Cyberspace Supports for Sustainability*
**Reinforces
Sustainability
by:
•
de-­‐materializa8on
•
de-­‐spa8aliza8on
•
de-­‐centraliza8on
&
•
de-­‐massifica8on
Reduces
Disconnects
Between:
•
informa8on
&
use
•
stakeholders
&
government
•
planning
a
&
ac8on
•
policies
&
feedback
Facilitates
Access
to
Knowledge
• search
&
selec8on
• networking
for
content
• knowledge
sharing
• performance
&
measures
NChoucri-­‐-­‐MIT
*Based
on
Nazli
Choucri,
Cyberpoli*cs
in
Interna*onal
Rela*ons,
MIT
Press,
2012:
pp.
205-­‐207
**
Selected
from
list
in
John
Seely
Brown
and
Paul
Druid,
The
Social
Life
of
Informa*on,
Harvard
Press,
2000.

12. <GSSD.MIT.edu>

13. <GSSD.MIT.edu>