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WHY?
A Safe and Just Space for Humanity:
can we live within the doughnut?
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What is sustainable development ?
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
1987 Bruntland Commission UN
WHY?
Socio-Ecology
- Heavily-subsidized water-intensive wheat and cotton farming
- Encouragement of inefficient irrigation techniques: e.g. flood irrigation – 60% of water used is wasted
- Over-pumping of groundwater: Syria’s National Agricultural Policy Center: increase in wells tapping aquifers from “just over 135,000 in 1999 to more than 213,000 in 2007…caused groundwater levels to plummet in many parts of the country...”
- 2007: Syria consumed 19.2 billion cubic metres of water - 3.5 billion more than the amount of water replenished naturally
- Over-grazing of land
- Rapidly growing population
- Rising demand for meat
- Growing and increasingly affluent population
- Iraqi refugees since 2003
- Steady influx of Palestinian refugees
- Urbanization
- Syrian cities coping with influxes of Iraqi refugees since 2003, steady influx of Palestinian refugees, and from 2007-2011, around 1.5 million Syrian farmers and herders
- Cities already experiencing serious water infrastructure deficiencies – e.g. Damascus water network leaks up to 60 percent of the water it carries, according to local authorities
- 2007-2011: Francesca de Châtel: Syria experienced a “huge deterioration of [water] availability per capita,” partly as a result of a crumbling urban infrastructure...
Syrian cities coping with influxes of Iraqi refugees since 2003, steady influx of Palestinian refugees, and from 2007-2011, around 1.5 million Syrian farmers and herders
Cities already experiencing serious water infrastructure deficiencies – e.g. Damascus water network leaks up to 60 percent of the water it carries, according to local authorities
2007-2011: Francesca de Châtel: Syria experienced a “huge deterioration of [water] availability per capita,” partly as a result of a crumbling urban infrastructure.
http://www.india.com/news/world/what-is-the-crisis-in-syria-all-about-and-why-did-it-happen-this-comic-book-explains-it-all-535508/
WHAT?
Lets Make Connections
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That space may be environmentally safe, BUT
it could also be deeply socially unjust,
leaving many people living in poverty and facing extreme inequality...
The boundaries are of course inter related.
The boundaries are of course inter related!
To produce food, people need to convert land, use water and nitrogen and phosphorus.
But doing this to excess results in biodiversity loss, and contributes to climate change. It can also undermine water availability – all of which undermine the potential to grow food. The arrows are like boomerangs – they can come back to hit you if you overstress resources.
HOW?
When was the last time I was really really happy?