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Integrated Network for

Social Sustainability
Second Annual Conference
April 4 - 6, 2014
UNC Charlotte Center City
Campus
Charlotte, NC

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rant Number 1231382.

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The$ Integrated$ Network$ for$ Social$ Sustainability$ aims$

to$ provide$ opportunities$ and$ tools$ for$ connecting$
people,$projects,$and$ideas.$
We are delighted to welcome both returning INSS
members and those of you joining us for the first time. We
started as a small team of academics who joined together to
bring better focus to the idea of social sustainability and also to
expand and analyze its many domains. Funding from the
National Science Foundation allowed us to broaden our efforts
and create a formal network of individuals who touch on this
topic through their work in a professional, municipal, medical
or business setting or because they are engaged in related
research. We are now a very diverse group and hope you will
continue to invite others to join us if you think that would be
beneficial to them and to INSS.
Our goal for INSS is to accelerate the rate at which social
sustainability is more authentically included in policy and
planning. We created the network as a platform for information
exchange and sharing, as well as the construction of new
knowledge. Last year we held the inaugural INSS Conference,
where founding members of the network helped us shape much
of what you will see reported at the conference this year. We
worked to define social sustainability and prioritize topics of
high urgency and common interest; the outcomes are reflected
in the working groups that formed, as well as the working
definition that we are unveiling this year. Much of the work of
INSS is done through these working groups, and we encourage
you to join or create one.

Page 4

This years conference represents our

continued effort to build and develop the network.
As you will see from our agenda, it is not a typical
conference experience. With input from many
previous and new attendees, weve continued to
have a highly interactive program around topics
relevant to our members. Youll see efforts to
ensure that attendees are able to engage quickly,
share interests and experiences face-to-face (or at
least in a virtual conference setting). Some of your
time will be spent thinking about challenges and
solution strategies that INSS might employ. We
expect that youll find our keynote speaker
inspiring and thought-provoking along with the
case studies that are aimed to put social
sustainability in context in some diverse
applications. We want the network to provide
opportunities and tools for connecting people,
projects and ideas. We hope you find this to be
true during your conference experience and will
commit to working with us throughout the coming
year.

Sincerely,
Nicole Peterson
Helene Hilger
Brett Tempest
Thomas Gentry

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Objectives for
this Meeting

Provide opportunities for attendees to learn

about each other and make connections
that will advance and disseminate both
INSS and individual contributions to social
sustainability.

Clarify, organize and prioritize our efforts

through work groups and other initiatives
that can be sustained yearlong.

Initiate foundational products and

dialogues that can be continued throughout
the year.

Ensure participants leave engaged in and

committed to the ongoing development of
the Network and Network products and
understanding the communications tools
available to assist the Network moving
forward.

Steering
Committee
Ad visory C om mittee

Adjo Amekudzi
Sarah Bell
Christiane M. Bongartz
Henry Doss
Craig Farkos
Paul Fragua
Kent Glenzer
Rick Johnson
Heidi Pruess
Charles Redman
Londa Schiebinger

T
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P

The advisory committee

is a diverse group
intended to help guide
the INSS through
feedback and advice.

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Poster
Presentat
Keyno te Spe aker: Julian
Agye man
Just sustainabilities: re-imagining equality, living within limits
In his keynote, Julian will first outline the concept of 'just sustainabilities.'
He will argue that Integrating social needs and welfare, offers us a more
just, rounded, and equity-focused definition of sustainability and
sustainable development, while not negating the very real environmental
threats we face. He will define it as the need to ensure a better quality of
life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst
living within the limits of supporting ecosystems. He will then look at
examples of just sustainabilities in practice in the real world focusing on
ideas about 'fair shares' resource distribution globally; planning for
intercultural cities; achieving wellbeing and happiness; the potential in the
new sharing economy and finally the concept of 'spatial justice' and how it
complements the more established concept of social justice.
Julian Agyeman is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning at Tufts University in Medford, MA. He is an environmental social
scientist whose expertise and current research interests are in the complex
and embedded relations between humans and the environment, whether
mediated by governmental institutions or social movements, and the effects
of this on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly
in relation to notions of justice and equity. He is co-founder and Editor-inChief of the international journal Local Environment: The International
Journal of Justice and Sustainability. With over 150 publications, his recent
books include 'Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability' (MIT
Press 2011) and Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and
Practice (Zed Books 2013).
His blog, Just Sustainabilities: Re-imagining equality, living within limits,
can be read at juilanagyeman.com

Email: julian.agyeman@tufts.edu

Twitter: @julianagyeman

Jose Quispe Acosta, Sandra S

Silvana Rondn Durand, Vic
and Jose Mlaga Snez (Pont
Catlica del Per). Communi
Project in Peru. Seismic Retro
School Building in Rural Peru
(jose.quispe@pucp.edu.pe)

Robyn M. B. Stuber (UNC Ch

sustainability on Marylands
Linking social sustainability
(rbyers12@uncc.edu)

Cristiane Surbeck (University

Helene Hilger (UNC Charlot
Social Sustainability in Infras
(csurbeck@olemiss.edu, hhilger@

Ian Werkheiser and Paul B. T

State University). The Sustain
Endowed Project. (ianwerkhei
thom@anr.msu.edu)

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Friday, April 4

Agenda

2pm - Tour of Charlotte-Area Sustainable

Manufacturing

Saturday, April 5

8:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45am - Welcome and Introductions

9:15am - Keynote Speaker: Julian Agyeman

10:20am - Finding Threads of Common Interest

10:35am - Coffee Break

10:50am Working Group Introductions

11:15am - Prioritizing Challenges to Social

Sustainability

12:15pm - Lunch

1:15pm - Sharing Priorities

1:45pm Working Group Meetings

2:45pm - Poster Session and Coffee Break

3:15pm - Case Studies

Cliff Davidson and David Fasenfest - SMART
CN Project

Poster
Presentat

Jonathan Hankins (Bassetti F

Responsible Innovation) and
(Utrecht University, NL). Foo
social Sustainability through
networks. (jonnyhankins@hotm
Crisgrasseni@gmail.com)

Angelique Hjarding (UNC C

patterns of environmental jus
(ahjardin@uncc.edu)

Elizabeth Miller (UNC Charl

Conversation: Social Sustaina
Object. (ermiller@uncc.edu)

Juan Samuel Palomino Bende

Santa Cruz Hidalgo (Pontific
del Per - CAPRA program).
Risk Assessment in Schools a
city with CAPRA platform. (

Katie Whitefoot - National Academy of

Engineering- Manufacturing and Work in the
Innovation Economy
Tiffani Irwin - Sustainable Building with Habitat
for Humanity International

4:00pm Working Group Meetings

Saturday, April 5 (continued)

Dianne Quigley, David Sonn

(NEEP, Brown University Ce
Studies). Promoting Ethics, C
Community-based Research
Sustainablity. (Dianne_Quilge
dsonn@esf.edu, p.brown@neu.e

(continu

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Saturday, April 5 (continued)

5:00pm Exhibit Visit/Networking Break

6:00pm - Dinner

7:00pm - Reception and Panel Discussion: Art,

Manufacturing, Sustainability
Crista Cammaroto, Director of Galleries,

Poster
Presentat

Shiela Birungi (University Coll

CEEQUAL). Teaching Sustaina
Engineering: Using the CEEQU
Manual. (ucesbir@ucl.ac.uk)

College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

Dan Fogel, Schools of Business, Center for
Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake
Forest University
Jeff Mittelstadt, Director of Sustainability,
Davidson College
Gary Silverman, Dept. of Public Health
Sciences, UNC Charlotte
Paul B. Thompson, W.K. Kellogg Chair in
Agricultural, Food And Community Ethics,
Michigan State University
Sunday, April 6

8:00am - Breakfast

8:30am - Outside In: Presentations from Virtual

Attendees

9:00am - Defining Social Sustainability Redux:

Finalizing a Definition

9:30am Working Group Reporting

10:15am - Coffee Break

10:30am - Network Engagement Tools

11:30am - Conference Assessment

12:00pm - Lunch

2:00pm - Conference Adjourns

Robert Boyer (UNC Charlotte)

Social Learning: The Evolution
Pedestrian Neighborhood Zon
County, New York. (rboyer1@u

Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Ins

Sustainable Consumption Rese
Initiative. (maurie.cohen@njit.ed

Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Ins

Sustainability: Science, Practice
(maurie.cohen@njit.edu)

Felicity Davies (University Col

Titheridge (Centre for Urban S
Resilience, UCL), Sarah Bell (C
Geomatic Engineering, UCL) a
Capturing the Social Value of R
(felicity.davies.12@ucl.ac.uk)

Cameron Fraser and Faye Litch

University). A Permaculture C
(cdfraser@bsu.edu, Kflichtsinn@b

Carli Flynn and Cliff Davidson

Green Infrastructure Adoption
Sustainable Stormwater Manag
(cflynn@syr.edu, davidson@syr.e

(continu

continued)

hibit Visit/Networking Break

ner

eption and Panel Discussion: Art,

g, Sustainability

maroto, Director of Galleries,

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Poster
Presentations
Shiela Birungi (University College London/
CEEQUAL). Teaching Sustainability in Civil
Engineering: Using the CEEQUAL Educational Design
Manual. (ucesbir@ucl.ac.uk)

s + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

chools of Business, Center for

onment and Sustainability, Wake

sity

adt, Director of Sustainability,

ege

man, Dept. of Public Health

C Charlotte

mpson, W.K. Kellogg Chair in

Food And Community Ethics,

e University

akfast

side In: Presentations from Virtual

ning Social Sustainability Redux:

efinition

rking Group Reporting

fee Break

twork Engagement Tools

nference Assessment

nch

ference Adjourns

Robert Boyer (UNC Charlotte). Climate Mitigation as

Social Learning: The Evolution of Eco-Cohousing and
Pedestrian Neighborhood Zoning in Tompkins
County, New York. (rboyer1@uncc.edu)
Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Institute of Technology).
Sustainable Consumption Research and Action
Initiative. (maurie.cohen@njit.edu)
Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Institute of Technology).
Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy.
(maurie.cohen@njit.edu)
Felicity Davies (University College London), Helena
Titheridge (Centre for Urban Sustainability and
Resilience, UCL), Sarah Bell (Civil, Environmental and
Geomatic Engineering, UCL) and Chris Jofeh (Arup).
Capturing the Social Value of Retrofitting in Housing.
(felicity.davies.12@ucl.ac.uk)
Cameron Fraser and Faye Litchsinn (Ball State
University). A Permaculture Collective.
(cdfraser@bsu.edu, Kflichtsinn@bsu.edu)
Carli Flynn and Cliff Davidson (Syracuse University).
Green Infrastructure Adoption and the Diffusion of
Sustainable Stormwater Management Technologies.
(cflynn@syr.edu, davidson@syr.edu)

(continued)

Page 10

Agenda

f Charlotte-Area Sustainable

ng

gistration and Continental Breakfast

come and Introductions

Poster
Presentations
Jonathan Hankins (Bassetti Foundation for
Responsible Innovation) and Cristina Grasseni
(Utrecht University, NL). Food sovereignty and
social Sustainability through solidarity economy
networks. (jonnyhankins@hotmail.com,
Crisgrasseni@gmail.com)

note Speaker: Julian Agyeman

nding Threads of Common Interest

ffee Break

orking Group Introductions

oritizing Challenges to Social

nch

ring Priorities

rking Group Meetings

ter Session and Coffee Break

e Studies

on and David Fasenfest - SMART

Angelique Hjarding (UNC Charlotte). Spatial

patterns of environmental justice in Charlotte, NC.
(ahjardin@uncc.edu)
Elizabeth Miller (UNC Charlotte). Starting the
Conversation: Social Sustainability as Discursive
Object. (ermiller@uncc.edu)
Juan Samuel Palomino Bendezu and Sandra Cecilia
Santa Cruz Hidalgo (Pontificia Universidad Catlica
del Per - CAPRA program). Probabilistic Seismic
Risk Assessment in Schools and Hospitals in Lima
city with CAPRA platform. (jpalominob@pucp.pe)

efoot - National Academy of

Manufacturing and Work in the

conomy

n - Sustainable Building with Habitat

International

orking Group Meetings

continued)

Dianne Quigley, David Sonnenfeld, and Phil Brown

(NEEP, Brown University Center for Environmental
Studies). Promoting Ethics, Culture and
Community-based Research Training for Social
Sustainablity. (Dianne_Quilgey_1@brown.edu,
dsonn@esf.edu, p.brown@neu.edu)
(continued)

Page 11

Poster
Presentations

Spe aker: Julian

Agye man

imagining equality, living within limits

outline the concept of 'just sustainabilities.'

social needs and welfare, offers us a more
cused definition of sustainability and
le not negating the very real environmental
e it as the need to ensure a better quality of
uture, in a just and equitable manner, whilst
porting ecosystems. He will then look at
es in practice in the real world focusing on
rce distribution globally; planning for
wellbeing and happiness; the potential in the
ally the concept of 'spatial justice' and how it
shed concept of social justice.

of Urban and Environmental Policy and

n Medford, MA. He is an environmental social
current research interests are in the complex
een humans and the environment, whether
stitutions or social movements, and the effects
anning processes and outcomes, particularly
e and equity. He is co-founder and Editor-innal Local Environment: The International
ability. With over 150 publications, his recent
od Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability' (MIT
ust Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and

s: Re-imagining equality, living within limits,

com

ts.edu

Twitter: @julianagyeman

Jose Quispe Acosta, Sandra Santa Cruz Hidalgo,

Silvana Rondn Durand, Victor Arana Vsquez,
and Jose Mlaga Snez (Pontificia Universidad
Catlica del Per). Community-Based Mitigation
Project in Peru. Seismic Retrofit of an Adobe
School Building in Rural Peru Using Geomesh.
(jose.quispe@pucp.edu.pe)
Robyn M. B. Stuber (UNC Charlotte). Planning for
sustainability on Marylands Eastern Shore:
Linking social sustainability and sea level rise.
(rbyers12@uncc.edu)
Cristiane Surbeck (University of Mississippi) and
Helene Hilger (UNC Charlotte). Indicators of
Social Sustainability in Infrastructure.
(csurbeck@olemiss.edu, hhilger@uncc.edu)
Ian Werkheiser and Paul B. Thompson (Michigan
State University). The Sustainable Michigan
Endowed Project. (ianwerkheiser@gmail.com,
thom@anr.msu.edu)

ctives for
Meeting

portunities for attendees to learn

other and make connections
vance and disseminate both
dividual contributions to social
ty.

anize and prioritize our efforts

rk groups and other initiatives
sustained yearlong.

ndational products and

hat can be continued throughout

icipants leave engaged in and

o the ongoing development of
k and Network products and
ing the communications tools
assist the Network moving

Page 12

Steering
Committee
Ad visory C om mittee

Pro jects Co mm it tee

Adjo Amekudzi
Sarah Bell
Christiane M. Bongartz
Henry Doss
Craig Farkos
Paul Fragua
Kent Glenzer
Rick Johnson
Heidi Pruess
Charles Redman
Londa Schiebinger

Thomas Gentry
Helene Hilger
Rachelle Hollander
Elizabeth Miller
Jennifer Munroe
Nicole Peterson
Cris Surbeck
Brett Tempest
Paul Thompson

The advisory committee

is a diverse group
intended to help guide
the INSS through
feedback and advice.

The projects
committee helps
coordinate the
projects and activities
of the INSS.

onference represents our

build and develop the network.
m our agenda, it is not a typical
nce. With input from many
attendees, weve continued to
active program around topics
mbers. Youll see efforts to
es are able to engage quickly,
experiences face-to-face (or at
nference setting). Some of your
hinking about challenges and
hat INSS might employ. We
nd our keynote speaker
ght-provoking along with the
e aimed to put social
ntext in some diverse
ant the network to provide
ools for connecting people,
We hope you find this to be
onference experience and will
with us throughout the coming

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Welcom

The$ Integrated$ Network$ fo

to$ provide$ opportunities$
people,$projects,$and$ideas.

We are delighted to welcome

members and those of you joining u
started as a small team of academics
bring better focus to the idea of socia
expand and analyze its many domai
National Science Foundation allowe
and create a formal network of indiv
topic through their work in a profes
or business setting or because they a
research. We are now a very diverse
continue to invite others to join us if
beneficial to them and to INSS.

Our goal for INSS is to accele

sustainability is more authentically i
planning. We created the network as
exchange and sharing, as well as the
knowledge. Last year we held the in
where founding members of the net
of what you will see reported at the
worked to define social sustainabilit
high urgency and common interest;
in the working groups that formed,
definition that we are unveiling this
INSS is done through these working
you to join or create one.

Special Thanks

Charlotte Research Institu

UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

UNC Charlotte College of Engineering
UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture
Charlotte Research Institute
Ingersoll-Rand PLC
Boral Limited
North Carolina Research Campus

Facilitation by Matt Turner of GreenArc

Partners

GreenArc Partners is a leadership advisory and

organizational development firm located in Charlotte, NC.
The firm works with clients to clarify their strategic position,
enhance organizational governance, and improve
management and leadership capacity to foster sustained
success.

Integrated N
Social Sust

Second Annua
April 4 -

UNC Charlotte
Camp

Charlot

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science

Foundation under Grant Number 1231382.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed
in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect
the views of the National Science Foundation.

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