HI Beth, Hope this is not too late to be useful. In my critical case study on Cuba and sustainability (2006), I note that Cuba was following its own path to sustainability by: 1) meeting the basic needs of its citizens in food security, education, and health care; b) facilitating the development of a whole person by its committments to education, as well as athletic and artistic expression; c) creating a wide-ranging comprehensive environmental protection legal framework; d) developing an environmental consciousness through societal-wide environmental education programs and efforts to develop an environmental ethic; e) developing self-sufficiency in food, energy, and medicine; and f) initiating efforts to enhance public participation in local-based development and planned increases in in public involvement in environmental decision making and management.
Pamela On 8/30/11 9:34 AM, "Beth DeSombre" <[email protected]> wrote: > "Ronnie D Lipschutz" <[email protected]> writes: > If you look over the courses linked to our Sustainability > Engineering and Ecological Design curriculum > (http://seed.soe.ucsc.edu/), you may find some useful > material. I try not to get too bogged down in > definitionalism, since that can go on forever... > > Our whole point in starting with definitions is to point out that a) there are > many different ways to define this concept; b) any definition by necessity > prioritizes some things and excludes others, and so c) we're not going to use > a definition for our course, but instead talk about the kinds of things we > want to mean when we're collectively talking about sustainability, > > Beth >
