Truly sustainable living : planetary boundaries concept applied at the neighbourhood level

真正可持续的生活：在社区层面应用行星边界概念

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-05390
• 负责人: Bulle, Cécile
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=765805
• 关键词: Truly; sustainable; living; planetary; boundaries

“If all the inhabitants of the planet were living the way the inhabitants of my neighbourhood do, would one planet be enough?” The aim of the present research program is to enable the citizen, the architect, the town planner and all the other stakeholders of a neighbourhood to identify the most efficient pathways in the transition toward “absolute sustainability” with a life cycle perspective. Sustainable development should, by definition, allow us to fulfill our needs without exceeding the planetary boundaries. The planetary boundaries concept is meant to understand what margin of the planet safe operating space remains available for humanity: it focuses on a global footprint of humanity, and assesses if global thresholds leading to serious and irreversible consequences have been exceeded. It is not meant to give any information on the lifestyle of individuals. Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a systemic decision-making tool that allows determining if an alternative is preferable to another accounting for potential burden shifting. LCA can be applied, among other possibilities, to individual lifestyles. LCA is a tool for relative sustainability: If LCA allows determining that lifestyle A is more sustainable than lifestyle B, it does not allow to say to what extent A is sustainable in absolute. Some efforts, to which I participated, have recently been done to combine life cycle analysis and planetary boundaries concepts and the present program builds on those recent and promising progresses.This research program aims at promoting absolutely sustainable lifestyles and at guiding the transition toward sustainable neighbourhoods allowing such lifestyles. This implies the creation and the application of new diagnostic tools allowing to put in perspective the LCA based environmental footprint of the neighbourhood inhabitants with the planetary boundaries in order to guide the transition toward absolutely sustainable neighbourhoods defined as “Neighbourhoods that allows their citizens to have a lifestyle respecting their individual share of the planetary boundaries”.

“如果这个星球上的所有居民都像我的邻居一样生活，一个星球就足够了吗？”本研究计划的目的是使公民，建筑师，城市规划师和所有其他利益相关者的邻里，以确定最有效的途径过渡到“绝对可持续性”与生命周期的角度。顾名思义，可持续发展应该使我们能够在不超越地球界限的情况下满足我们的需求。“地球界限”概念旨在了解地球上还有多少安全运行空间可供人类使用：它侧重于人类的全球足迹，并评估是否已超过导致严重和不可逆转后果的全球阈值。它并不意味着提供关于个人生活方式的任何信息。生命周期分析是一种系统性的决策工具，可用来确定一种替代办法是否优于另一种可能的负担转移办法。生命周期评估可以应用于个人的生活方式。LCA是相对可持续性的工具：如果LCA允许确定生活方式A比生活方式B更可持续，它不允许说A在多大程度上是绝对可持续的。我参与的一些努力，最近做了结合联合收割机生命周期分析和地球极限的概念，目前的计划建立在这些最新的和有前途的进展。这个研究计划旨在促进绝对可持续的生活方式，并在引导过渡到可持续的社区，允许这种生活方式。这意味着要创建和应用新的诊断工具，以便正确看待社区居民在地球界限内的基于生命周期评估的环境足迹，从而指导向绝对可持续社区过渡，这种社区被定义为“允许其公民拥有尊重其个人对地球界限的份额的生活方式的社区”。