WAAS Program Strategy

Dispersed strategyDispersed strategy

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An ad hoc program strategy that embraces a number of unconnected projects and fields based on differing circumstance and interests will not be sufficient to fulfill the Academy’s mission or actively engage our membership.

Focused strategyFocused strategyA program strategy that focuses on only one issue at a time will not be sufficient to fulfill the Academy’s mission or actively engage our membership.

Distributed, Interrelated Distributed, Interrelated strategystrategy

WAASMission

WAAS should adopt a program strategy that supports multiple on-going projects addressing a range of crucial issues related to Academy’s mission utilizing the full gamut of expertise among our Fellows.

Linkages

What is our Mission? What is our Mission? 5

ENERGY

MATTER

SPACE

TIME

INFORMATION

ThermodynamicsKnowledge Advances

Security / Safety

ProductiveLivelihoods

Health

Socio-CulturalRichness

Freedoms,Capabilities& Choices

Human Well-being(Amartya Sen 1999)

Biophysical, Psychosocial &Socio-Economic Processes

Energy & Material assessment, capture, transformation, uses

Biodiversity, Ecosystem flows,Evolution, Fractals, Complexes

Social alliances, organization, leadership, cohesion, syntality

Instinct, Learning, Education,Experience, Understanding

IT, Media, Communications,Entertainment, Advertisement

Markets, Currency, Exchange,Incentives, Distribution

Framework for Assessing the Social Consequences &Policy Implications of Knowledge Advances

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Global / RegionalNatural Commons

Global / RegionalSynthetic Commons

Global / RegionalOperational Conditions

+ Human Rights (Abuse, Oppression, Guarantees)+ Human Freedoms (Bondage, Censorship)+ Knowledge (Ignorance, Stupidity, Propaganda)+ Social Capital & Responsibility (Denial, Apathy)+ Institutions (Corruption, Mismanagement) + Technology & Arms (Inequity, Misuse)+ Information & Internet (IT) (Disparate access)+ Tenure Rights (High discount rates)+ Markets (Asymmetrical, Manipulated)+ Exchange, Consumption & Investments (Skewed)+ United Nations (Factionalism, Hegemony)+ World Court (Anarchy)

+ Ozone Protection (Ozone depletion)+ Atmospheric Quality (Pollution)+ Oceanic & Marine Health (Pollution)+ Land Quality (Degradation)+ Freshwater Supply (Scarcity, Pollution)+ Biodiversity (Extinctions, Outbreaks)

+ Human Needs & Values (Greed, Selfishness)+ Human Potential (Wastage)+ Social Perspectives (Short-term, Intolerant)+ Political Determination (Actualisation, Participation)+ Peace (Wars, Conflicts, WMD Threat)+ Health (Epidemics, Pestilence, Famine)+ Monetary Stability (Crises, Imbalance)+ Free Trade (Protectionism, ‘Dumping’)+ Food Security (Poverty, Hunger, Violence)+ Ecological Stability (Unsteady state, Dysfunction)+ Justice (Rule of Law, Discrimination, ‘Mafia’)+ Economic Disparities (Within/Between Countries)

Over-use

Under-use Under-Supply

Managing the Global & Regional ‘Commons’ for Sustainability

Sustainability

Note the differential states of natural vs. synthetic ‘commons’, and of operational conditions for ensuring inter-generational sustainability

Human Dignity / Acculturation

Civil Order /Organization

Enterprises / Productivity-Distribution

Space, Environment& Natural Resources

Transformation-Conservation

Innovation-LearningLocal-Global

Empowerment-Security

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Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes towards Human Dignity / Acculturation, Entrepreneurship / Productivity, & Civil Order / Organization

for ‘Environmentally’ Sustainable Development