{"id":1004211333,"date":"2009-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cpe-uncategorized\/sustainable-resilience\/1004211333.html"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:47:33","slug":"sustainable-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/sustainable-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0<\/span>\"\"<\/a>This is not a new concept, but often overlooked in property development strategies, and in the organizational models that drive those development strategies.\u00a0 As architects, we are experiencing fundamental shifts in practice – from climate change, major technology shifts, energy usage and costs, and the tools with which we practice.\u00a0It is imperative that we develop deeper understanding of sustainable design principles, and as many jurisdictions and business leaders are instituting environmental, energy, and health related initiatives, we must raise the bar every day on our work.\u00a0<\/div>\n

When I took on the study of the USGBC’s LEED accreditation program a few years ago, I didn’t expect this US developed system to be directly relevant to the projects I was working on around the world – in fact, at the time all of my work was out of the country. I was just interested in learning more about our approach to sustainable design strategies.\u00a0 I was\u00a0so amazed\u00a0when the first comment from\u00a0the chairman of a development company in Dubai after a major development strategy presentation was “it must be LEED certified”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The basic system is simple – good fundamental design principals that carefully balance and consider the use of energy and environmental resources, along with the health of the people we design for. For anyone who hasn’t gone onto the USGBC website<\/a>\u00a0a basic exploration is well worth the time, and to develop an understanding of the basic systems of values is one of the best ways to begin.<\/p>\n

At TEDGlobal in Oxford a few weeks ago, I met with a number of brilliant industry changing business leaders who are developing new models – not just the\u00a0buildings that represent their values, but a complete shift in re-connecting values to business and economic models.\u00a0 Great innovations are in development and the opportunities to reflect those innovations into the built environment have never been more exciting. Here is an excerpt from the minister of the environment of Sweden on this concept, sustainable resilience – the concept behind great new innovations underway.<\/p>\n

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Resilience, for social-ecological systems, is related to<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(a) the magnitude of shock that the system can absorb and remain<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

within a given state, (b) the degree to which the system is capable<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

of self-organization, and (c) the degree to which the system can<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

build capacity for learning and adaptation. Management can<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

destroy or build resilience, depending on how the social-ecological<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

system organizes itself in response to management actions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More resilient social-ecological systems are able to absorb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

larger shocks without changing in fundamental ways. When<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

massive transformation is inevitable, resilient systems contain the<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

components needed for renewal and reorganization. In other<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

words, they can cope, adapt, or reorganize without sacrificing the<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

provision of ecosystem services. Resilience is often associated with<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>diversity \u2013 of species, of human opportunity, and of economic<\/em><\/span>Management that builds resilience can sustain<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

options \u2013 that maintains and encourages both adaptation and<\/em><\/p>\n

learning.<\/em><\/p>\n

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social-ecological systems in the face of surprise, unpredictability,<\/em><\/p>\n

and complexity. Resilience-building management is flexible and<\/em><\/p>\n

open to learning. It attends to slowly-changing, fundamental<\/em><\/p>\n

variables that create memory, legacy, diversity, and the capacity to<\/em><\/p>\n

innovate in both social and ecological components of the system. It<\/em><\/p>\n

also conserves and nurtures the diverse elements that are necessary<\/em><\/p>\n

to reorganize and adapt to novel, unexpected, and transformative<\/em><\/p>\n

circumstances. Thus, it increases the range of surprises with which<\/em><\/p>\n

a socio-economic system can cope.<\/em><\/p>\n

A powerful\u00a0concept to consider in both the design and business strategies we now have the opportunity to develop.<\/p>\n

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