Sustainable Prosperity: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

我们建议建立一个多学科的可持续繁荣理解中心(CUSP)。在萨里大学的领导下，CUSP将与一系列学术和非学术合作伙伴合作，建立一个丰富的国际合作研究网络。这项研究的目的将是探讨可持续繁荣的经济、生态、社会和治理层面，并向追求可持续繁荣的政府、企业和民间社会提出具体建议。我们对可持续繁荣的指导愿景是，世界各地的人民都有能力作为人类--在有限星球的生态和资源限制内--蓬勃发展。我们的工作不仅将探索这一挑战的经济方面，而且还将探索其社会、政治和哲学层面。我们将在家庭和企业层面处理可持续繁荣的影响；我们将探索不同繁荣道路对部门和宏观经济的影响。我们将特别注意企业、政府和民间社会为实现可持续繁荣而需要采取的务实步骤。CUSP工作方案分为五个主题(我们的MAPSS框架)。主题M探讨了繁荣本身的道德框架和有争议的意义。我们采取了一种广泛的哲学方法，考察了人们、企业和政府如何协调可持续发展和繁荣之间的紧张关系。主题A探讨了艺术和文化在我们社会中的作用。我们不仅要研究艺术在传播可持续发展方面的作用，还要把文化作为繁荣本身的一个重要因素。主题P涉及可持续繁荣的政治问题，并探讨实现可持续繁荣所需的体制转变。我们将与企业和社会企业密切合作，测试企业可持续发展的新模式。主题S1探讨了繁荣的社会和心理层面。我们将与家庭和个人合作，以了解人们如何谈判他们对美好生活的渴望。作为这一主题的一部分，我们将与环境署一起对世界各地年轻人的生活方式进行一项重大研究。主题2审查了可持续繁荣所依赖的社会和经济系统的复杂动态。我们将特别应对在资源消耗受限的情况下实现金融稳定和高就业的挑战。除了我们的MAPSS工作计划外，我们还将发起一个重要的国际可持续繁荣对话(由坎特伯雷前大主教、剑桥抹大拉学院院长Rowan Williams博士主持)。我们还将建立一个由学术和非学术机构的CUSP研究员组成的国际网络。

We propose to establish a multi-disciplinary Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). Led by the University of Surrey, CUSP will work with a range of academic and non-academic partners to establish a rich international network of collaborative research. The aim of this research will be to explore the economic, ecological, social and governance dimensions of sustainable prosperity and to make concrete recommendations to government, business and civil society in pursuit of it. Our guiding vision for sustainable prosperity is one in which people everywhere have the capability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological and resource constraints of a finite planet. Our work will explore not just the economic aspects of this challenge, but also its social, political and philosophical dimensions. We will address the implications of sustainable prosperity at the level of households and firms; and we will explore sector-level and macro-economic implications of different pathways to prosperity. We will pay particular attention to the pragmatic steps that need to be taken by enterprise, government and civil society in order to achieve a sustainable prosperity. The CUSP work programme is split into five themes (our MAPSS framework). Theme M explores the moral framing and contested meanings of prosperity itself. Taking a broadly philosophical approach we examine how people, enterprise and government negotiate the tensions between sustainability and prosperity. Theme A explores the role of the arts and of culture in our society. We will look not only at the role of the arts in communicating sustainability but at culture as a vital element in prosperity itself. Theme P addresses the politics of sustainable prosperity and explores the institutional shifts that will be needed to achieve it. We will work closely with both corporate and social enterprise to test new models of sustainability for business. Theme S1 explores the social and psychological dimensions of prosperity. We will work with households and individuals in order to understand how people negotiate their aspirations for the good life. As part of this theme we will engage with UNEP in a major study of young people's lifestyles across the world. Theme S2 examines the complex dynamics of social and economic systems on which sustainable prosperity depends. We will address in particular the challenge of achieving financial stability and high employment under conditions of constrained resource consumption. Alongside our MAPSS work programme, we will initiate a major international Sustainable Prosperity Dialogue (chaired by Dr Rowan Williams - former Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College Cambridge). We will also establish an international network of CUSP Fellows from both academic and non-academic institutions.