Ecologically Sustainable Development

Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) is a world wide phenomenon which speaks to the community’s concern over the environment and has resulted in a statutory “objective” of ESD for Local Governments and the Ministers for Planning in NSW and QLD to ....“enable those best placed to maximise benefits or minimise costs to develop their own solutions and responses to environmental problems.”

The Discussion Pages below address some of the issues which must be addressed in achieving Those Best Placed Public Forum Mission to give effect to ESD and to become a Community Consultation Forum for  Bio Regional Communities who are its Public Members.

Public Good in ESD - What is an appropriate balance between the good of individuals and the good of the community?

National Strategy - Australia's National Strategy for ESD

Gap Analysis - A qualitative gap analysis tool for assessing the social aspects of implementing ESD

Set Theory & Combinatorics - Do Set Theory and Combinatorics (a branch of Pure Mathematics) offer a spatial methodology for measuring environmental costs?

Paradigm Shift -  What happens when our fundamentals aren't fundamental any more?

Regulatory Capture - How Organisations fail to adapt to Paradigm Shifts.

Globalisation and Unsustainability - The role of Globalisation in Unsustainable Development

Maslows Heirarchy of Needs - The key social, economic and environmental drivers for individuals in contrast to the key drivers for ESD

Ecological Footprint - How to think globally, and act locally

Exponential Growth & Its Limits - Why free market fundamentalism needs to go

Five Capitals - There are five capitals which are Australia's National Reources 

Environmental Value Chain - The importance of incorporating the currently virtual and unknown environmental costs into the costs of goods and services

Environmental Liability - Who's going to pay?  You are.

ESD in Germany - Germany has enabled those best placed in the community by expanding Australia' four Pillars of ESD into eight Principles which recognise the role of Social and Human Capital to realise ESD