The Sustainability Podcast
The Three Pillars of Sustainability and Your Smart City with Jim Frazer
The 2005 World Summit on Social Development identified sustainable development goals, such as economic development, social development and environmental protection. This view has been expressed as an illustration using three overlapping ellipses indicating that the three pillars of sustainability are not mutually exclusive and can be mutually reinforcing. In fact, the three pillars are interdependent, and in the long run none can exist without the others. The three pillars have served as a common ground for numerous sustainability standards and certification systems in recent years.
Venn diagram of sustainable development (image above)
As you can see from the image above, sustainability includes:
1. The Preservation of Environmental Resources
2. The Enhancement of Societal Goals – also known as ‘quality of life” or "safety" and,
3. Economic Viability – since none of these goals can be accomplished without a sound, robust economic plan.
Notice too that these are akin to a vision statement, without much specificity. Thus it is incumbent upon you as the project creator to document multiple, measurable parameters for each of the pillars above. Later these will be used to rank, and ultimately approve or reject any proposed requirements.
In practice, as approaches to achieving any goal is envisioned and discussed, practical processes must be implemented. This includes a comprehensive investigation of each stakeholder community. By an examination of the user needs of individual members of each stakeholder community, common well-supported user needs can and should be developed. As this process progresses, it is also critically important to remember that these needs should be solicited and documented over the entire life cycle of the proposed project – from envisioning, design, testing and implementation to post-install operations, maintenance and eventual retirement. This process is effectively managed through use of the Systems Engineering Process as described in this article from earlier this year: The Top 12 Reasons to use the Systems Engineering Process for Your Smart City Project
Read more at https://www.arcweb.com/blog/three-pillars-sustainability-your-smart-city-project
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Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast?
If you have an intriguing, thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast, please contact our host Jim Frazer
View all the episodes here: https://thesustainabilitypodcast.buzzsprout.com
The 2005 World Summit on Social Development identified sustainable development goals, such as economic development, social development and environmental protection. This view has been expressed as an illustration using three overlapping ellipses indicating that the three pillars of sustainability are not mutually exclusive and can be mutually reinforcing. In fact, the three pillars are interdependent, and in the long run none can exist without the others. The three pillars have served as a common ground for numerous sustainability standards and certification systems in recent years.
Venn diagram of sustainable development (image above)
As you can see from the image above, sustainability includes:
1. The Preservation of Environmental Resources
2. The Enhancement of Societal Goals – also known as ‘quality of life” or "safety" and,
3. Economic Viability – since none of these goals can be accomplished without a sound, robust economic plan.
Notice too that these are akin to a vision statement, without much specificity. Thus it is incumbent upon you as the project creator to document multiple, measurable parameters for each of the pillars above. Later these will be used to rank, and ultimately approve or reject any proposed requirements.
In practice, as approaches to achieving any goal is envisioned and discussed, practical processes must be implemented. This includes a comprehensive investigation of each stakeholder community. By an examination of the user needs of individual members of each stakeholder community, common well-supported user needs can and should be developed. As this process progresses, it is also critically important to remember that these needs should be solicited and documented over the entire life cycle of the proposed project – from envisioning, design, testing and implementation to post-install operations, maintenance and eventual retirement. This process is effectively managed through use of the Systems Engineering Process as described in this article from earlier this year: The Top 12 Reasons to use the Systems Engineering Process for Your Smart City Project
Read more at https://www.arcweb.com/blog/three-pillars-sustainability-your-smart-city-project
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Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast?
If you have an intriguing, thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast, please contact our host Jim Frazer
View all the episodes here: https://thesustainabilitypodcast.buzzsprout.com