{"id":3306,"date":"2009-12-10T00:53:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T05:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2009-12-10T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T05:58:19","slug":"pardee-center-worldchanging-atkisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2009\/12\/10\/pardee-center-worldchanging-atkisson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Paper Featured at <i>WorldChanging<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/010856.html\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3308\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2009\/12\/worldchanging.jpg\" alt=\"worldchanging\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/12\/worldchanging.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/12\/worldchanging-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alan Atkisson&#8217;s paper <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\/sdi-001-reset-sustainable-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pushing &#8216;Reset&#8217; on Sustainable Development,&#8221;<\/a><\/em> the first in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2009\/11\/09\/sustainable-development-insights\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Pardee Center Series <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2009\/11\/09\/sustainable-development-insights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Development Insights<\/a><\/em>, jointly published with the United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, has just been republished at the popular website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/010856.html\" target=\"_blank\">WorldChanging.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper, Alan Atkisson explores how to continue accelerating sustainable development in an era of financial collapse and if sustainable development requires a \u201creset\u201d. The paper concludes, \u201cPerhaps the word \u2018reset\u2019 \u2013 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 \u2013 is the right metaphor after all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/11\/UNsdkp001sin-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"UNsdkp001sin\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/11\/UNsdkp001sin-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/11\/UNsdkp001sin.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2009\/11\/UNsdkp001sin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download full paper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan AtKisson <\/strong>is president of the AtKisson Group, a global sustainability consultancy, and co-president of the International Network of Resource Information Centers, aka \u201cThe Balaton Group.\u201d He has worked at the leading edge of sustainability innovation and practice since 1988. His firm\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n<p>The SDKP is a United Nations Public-Private partnership, with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/esa\/dsd\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">UN Division of Sustainable Development<\/a> as its secretariat, which brings together some of the leading organizations and individuals working on sustainable development for the partnership\u2019s stated mission: \u201cTo organize the knowledge on sustainable development in order to make it more useful for practitioners and policy makers.\u201d\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Atkisson&#8217;s paper &#8220;Pushing &#8216;Reset&#8217; on Sustainable Development,&#8221; 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. 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