Sustainability Visioning and Scoping: A National Webinar Series  

“Multi-sectoral, Collaborative Approaches to Addressing the Sustainability Challenge”

Sustainability is a framework for understanding the economic, environmental, social, and technological  effects of human activity and for addressing complex challenges created by these effects in ways that are equitable to current and future generations. Human activities relevant for sustainability range in scale from the individual to the organizational to all of society actions in the sectors of academia, civil society,  government and private enterprise. The effects of these actions may be beneficial to some, but have associated costs and risks that are distributed unevenly and out of proportion to their benefits across different populations today and in the future.  Addressing these effects, which include climate change, loss of biodiversity, food, energy, and water insecurity, is the sustainability challenge.  Effective action requires a shared understanding of the root causes and sustained, coordinated effort between all affected and  interested parties. Such effort must begin with a shared vision of the sustainability challenge and the scope of action necessary to address it. 

The Sustainability Visioning and Scoping Webinar Series provides a forum for all parties to share their interests, concerns, insights, and approaches to the sustainability challenge