Jürgen Kopfmüller

How Sustainable is Santiago

The objective of this chapter is to measure the performance of the Santiago Metropolitan Region and to demonstrate how the Helmholtz Integrative Sustainability Concept and a set of indicators can serve as a tool to support decision-making by public, private and civil society actors for sustainable development. The chapter combines results for selected headline indicators with those of sustainability performance in the various fields presented in more detail in Chaps. 6–13 of this volume. The exercise of setting target values as necessary reference lines to identify existing strengths and weaknesses is clearly an incentive to goal-oriented policy and planning. The analysis reveals positive trends for some of the indicators, which deserve continued support, but also tremendous challenges in others bearing negative trends. The chapter concludes with a synthesis of the sustainability challenges ahead. This includes reflections on the conceptual and methodological dimensions of this exercise, and suitable institutional responses.

Scenarios for Future Development

The analysis and governance of climate change in urban regions, notably in mega-urban agglomerations, faces a dual challenge: firstly, that of dealing with the increasing complexities and dynamics of the different drivers of development, institutions, and actors; secondly, of considering the limited knowledge of both climate change events and their impacts on natural and social systems, particularly at local level. Given that political and societal decisions must be taken under uncertainty conditions, the scenario method plays a major role in providing decision-makers with a basis from which to generate the relevant orientation and action knowledge. Being well-founded as a tool to cope with such complexities and uncertainties, scenarios are applied since long time in several thematic contexts. In this chapter, basic scenario functions, types, challenges and requirements are addressed and pointed out for the specific context of climate change adaptation efforts. The three-step methodological approach and the conceptual and analytical framework applied to the case of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (MRS) are described in detail. Finally, selected methodological responses to challenges associated with the analysis and advisory efforts to improve adaptive capacities in strategic urban planning in this regional context are highlighted.

Lecciones de una investigación integrativa sobre sustentabilidad urbana: el proyecto "Risk Habitat Megacity" en Santiago de Chile, 2006-2010

Existe acuerdo en cuanto a que se necesita de una investigacion mas integrada para enfrentar la complejidad de los desafios socioecologicos y socioeconomicos. Una investigacion asi concebida, especialmente importante desde la perspectiva del desa-rrollo sustentable, incluye re

Improving sustainability by technology assessment and systems analysis: the case of IWRM Indonesia

exiones sobre justicia, problemas globales y un enfoque dinamico antes que cortoplacista (Newman, 2006). El consenso en torno a este punto ha facilitado arquitecturas de proyectos de investigacion cada vez mas complejas, mas alla de las fronteras nacionales y de torres de mar%l cienti%cas. Ejemplo de ello es el septimo Programa Marco de Investigacion de la Union Europea (Bammer, 2008). Sin embargo, las conclusiones sobre la calidad academica o la productividad de tales inicia-tivas raramente son consideradas, mas alla de publicaciones cienti%cas individuales.Este trabajo aborda la iniciativa interdis-ciplinaria germano-chilena Risk Habitat Megacity (RHM), 2006-2010, dirigida al Gobierno Regional (GORE) de la Region Metropolitana de Santiago (con el que se %rmo un acuerdo de colaboracion), y coor-dinada por el Centro Helmholtz de Alema-nia para Investigacion Ambiental (UFZ-Leipzig). El equipo estuvo compuesto por cuatro centros de investigacion de la Asocia-cion Helmholtz, universidades de Santiago (Ponti%cia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado) y de Valparaiso (Ponti%cia Univer-sidad Catolica de Valparaiso) y la Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL). Lo parti-cularmente interesante aqui no son las con-clusiones de la investigacion (Krellenberg, Kopfmueller, Barton & Heinrichs , 2010), sino el proceso mismo de investigacion, que a menudo de%ne la calidad de esta. Entrega-mos algunas re

Ressourcen- und Abfallmanagement für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung dargestellt am Beispiel von Cadmium

exiones sobre este proyecto y aquellas lecciones aprendidas que son rele-vantes para otros proyectos. Estas re

Building a 'theory of sustainable development': two salient conceptions within the German discourse

exiones buscan clari%car los mecanismos frecuente-mente ocultos por los cuales los proyectos de investigacion son concebidos, dejando atras productos que pueden no ser in

Sustainable Development of Megacities:An Integrative Research Approach for the Case of Santiago Metropolitan Region

uyentes y que posiblemente no seran evaluados en

Indicator system for the sustainability assessment of the German energy system and its transition

To support the implementation of the IWRM-Indonesia process in a water scarce and sanitation poor region of Central Java (Indonesia), sustainability assessments of several technology options of water supply and sanitation were carried out based on the conceptual framework of the integrative sustainability concept of the German Helmholtz association. In the case of water supply, the assessment was based on the life-cycle analysis and life-cycle-costing approach. In the sanitation sector, the focus was set on developing an analytical tool to improve planning procedures in the area of investigation, which can be applied in general to developing and newly emerging countries. Because sanitation systems in particular can be regarded as socio-technical systems, their permanent operability is closely related to cultural or religious preferences which influence acceptability. Therefore, the design of the tool and the assessment of sanitation technologies took into account the views of relevant stakeholders. The key results of the analyses are presented in this article.

Socially responsible research processes for sustainability transformation: an integrated assessment framework

KurzfassungIm vorliegenden Beitrag werden erste Ergebnisse einer Zusammenführung zweier im Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS) des Forschungszentrums Karlsruhe bearbeiteter Projekte zu den Themen „Abfallwirtschaft und Nachhaltige Entwicklung” und „Unterschung der Verteilung ausgewählter Schwermetalle bei Abfallentsorgungsmaßnahmen” präsentiert. Dabei werden Probleme und Zielkonflikte des Cadmiumstoffstroms vor dem Hintergrund des im ITAS entwickelten integrativen Nachhaltigkeitskonzeptes identifiziert und diskutiert.SummaryThis paper presents the first results of a project uniting two projects carried out by the Institute for Technology Assessmenind Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Research Centre. “Waste management and sustainable development” and “Analysis of the distribution of selected heavy metals due to waste management measures”. The problems involved in the material flow of cadmium are identified and discussed agains the background of an integrative sustainability concept developed by ITAS.