SLIDE 7 7
Regional Approaches to Urban Sustainability
Organize a series of workshops beginning in Fall 2010 to foster discussion of regional approaches to making U.S. metropolitan areas more sustainable, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which policies and programs might be developed. Atlanta was Selected as the Initial Workshop Location September 30, 2010-October 1, 2010
- Three Major Themes Relevant to Metro Atlanta
– Transportation & land use – Public health & the built environment – Water resources conservation
– Discuss the ways that regional actors are approaching sustainability – Examine the role that science, technology, and research can play in supporting efforts to make the region more sustainable – Explore how federal agency efforts, particularly interagency partnerships, can complement/leverage the efforts of other key stakeholders
Rationale
- Understanding the linkages between domains is essential for the development
- f policies and programs supporting long term sustainability.
- These linkages are not always recognized or accounted for by federal policies
and programs and, in fact, often trigger unintended consequences.
Objectives
- To identify and describe the most critical linkages between domains, with
potential sustainability impacts highlighting temporal, geographic, and spatial differences.
- To develop a decision framework which could be used to analyze or assess
consequences, tradeoffs, and synergies of policy choices among linked domains.
Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government
