Public Lecture & drinks reception

1.30pm, Friday 28 August

The Boland Auditorium
Berrick Saul Building

Creating the Future We Want

Professor Robert Costanza
Chair in Public Policy

&

Dr. Ida Kubiszewski

Senior Lecturer

Crawford School of Public Policy

Australian National University, Canberra
Editors in Chief, Solutions (www.thesolutionsjournal.org)

A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. The UN Sustainable Development Goals
process is building international consensus on a set of 17 goals and supporting targets and indicators. Meeting
these goals and achieving the future we want the theme of the UN Rio+20 conference is a significant local
and global research challenge that will require a substantially different approach to science and policy.
Creating a sustainable and desirable future will require redesign of our socio-ecological regime and economic
paradigm to recognise the substantial contributions of natural and social capital and focus explicitly on
sustainable quality of life and well-being rather than on unlimited material growth.

The talk will discuss:

scenario planning (including pubic opinion surveys) to build consensus
new indicators of progress toward these shared goals
new institutions, policies, and civil society movements needed to achieve the future we
want

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Lets create the future we want!
Robert Costanza is a Professor and Chair in Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public
Policy. Prior to this, he was Distinguished University Professor of Sustainability in the
Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, Gund Professor of
Ecological Economics and founding director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
at the University of Vermont. His transdisciplinary research integrates the study of humans
and the rest of nature to address research, policy and management issues at multiple time
and space scales, from small watersheds to the global system.
Dr Ida Kubiszewski is a Senior Lecturer at Crawford School of Public Policy. Prior to this
she was an Assistant Research Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable
Solutions, at Portland State University. She is a climate change negotiator for the
country of the Dominican Republic. She was a delegate at the 19th and 20th Conference
of Parties (COP19 & COP20) in Warsaw, Poland and Lima, Peru.

Admission to this event is free. PLEASE REGISTER your attendance at

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YESI tel: 01904 328866