Pardee Center Paper Featured at WorldChanging
Alan Atkisson’s paper “Pushing ‘Reset’ on Sustainable Development,” the first in the new Pardee Center Series Sustainable Development Insights, jointly published with the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, has just been republished at the popular website WorldChanging.com.
In the paper, Alan Atkisson explores how to continue accelerating sustainable development in an era of financial collapse and if sustainable development requires a “reset”. The paper concludes, “Perhaps the word ‘reset’ – a return to an original state, in this case the origins of our understanding of sustainable development, in terms of both systems science and social change – is the right metaphor after all.”
Alan AtKisson is president of the AtKisson Group, a global sustainability consultancy, and co-president of the International Network of Resource Information Centers, aka “The Balaton Group.” He has worked at the leading edge of sustainability innovation and practice since 1988. His firm’s clinents include global companies, governments, cities, and other organizations committed to sustainability leadership. His most recent book is The ISIS Agreement: How sustainability can improve organizational performance and transform the world (Earthscan, 2008).
The SDKP is a United Nations Public-Private partnership, with the UN Division of Sustainable Development as its secretariat, which brings together some of the leading organizations and individuals working on sustainable development for the partnership’s stated mission: “To organize the knowledge on sustainable development in order to make it more useful for practitioners and policy makers.” The goal of the partnership is to bring together individuals, institutions, and networks engaged in the production and dissemination of knowledge on sustainable development, including research institutions, universities, expert networks, governmental institutions, civil society organizations, private research entities, and individual researchers working on sustainable development.