2023-03-13

March 13 (the second Monday of the month) is the 108th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://ecological-limits.eventbrite.ca .

Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals

This session celebrates the open access release of The Ecological Limits to Development!  

Katie Kish and Stephen Quilley critique and reimagine the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.  The existing SDGs are challenged through perspectives of ecological economics and complexity thinking.  New goals that align more thoroughly to biophysical limits to growth are suggested. 

Ways in which this set of new SDGs could be made usable for Canadian municipalities are also considered.

From the book description ...

• Drawing on ideas from H.T. Odum, Herman Daly, Zigmunt Bauman, and many others, this book provides guiding research for a convergence between North and South that is bottom-up, household-centred, and predicated on a re-emerging domain of Livelihood.

Biographies:

• Kaitlin Kish is President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.  She is a research associate for the Footprint Initiative at York University and lecturer of Ecological Economics for the Haida Gwaii Institute at the University of British Columbia. She has a Ph.D. in Social and Ecological Sustainability from the University of Waterloo’s School for Environment, Resources, and Sustainability. 

• Stephen Quilley is the Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience as well as an associate professor of the School of Environment, Resource and Sustainability in the Department of Environment at the University of Waterloo. . Trained in historical sociology and political economy, he has previously held tenured positions at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Keele University in the UK, and a lectureship and a research fellowship at the Moscow School of Economic and Social Science and the University of Manchester.

Additional chapter authors (to be confirmed) have been invited to join in. 

Venue:

• The link for a Zoom conference will be sent upon preregistration.

• Unfortunately, due to the pandemic OCADU, sLab (Strategic Innovation Lab), 205 Richmond Street West, Room 410 is not available!

Suggested pre-reading: 

• Ecological Limits of Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals

  • The institutional (library) version from Routledge is at https://www.routledge.com/Ecological-Limits-of-Development-Living-with-the-Sustainable-Development/Kish-Quilley/p/book/9780367540593

  • An open access version of the book is at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003087526/ecological-limits-development-kaitlin-kish-stephen-quilley

  • The authors open access version provided by Katie is on Google Drive.

• Policy Options to a Radical Recovery | Economics for the Anthropocene is at https://e4a-net.org/newnormal/

Agenda

Post-meeting artifacts

Bloggers are encouraged to write about their learning and experiences at the meeting. Links will be added to this page.