APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING TOWARDS THE ACHIEVMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS' SU

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APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING TOWARDS THE
ACHIEVMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
SUSTAINABLE MESIANO 2015

• Camilla Archetti, Guido Zolezzi, Agustí
  Perez-Foguet
• University of Trento, Civil and Environmental
  Engineering Department
• Via Mesiano, 77 38100 Trento, Italy
• Phone [phone]
• ETSECCPB, Universitat Politènica de Catalunya
• C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3
• 08034 Barcelona, Spain
• camilla.archetti_at_ing.unitn.it, guido.zolezzi_at_ing.u
  nitn.it, agusti.perez_at_upc.edu

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CONTEXT

• Sustainable Mesiano 2015 project faculty of
  Engineering of Trento, Italy
• Master in Appropriate Environmental Technologies
  for the Developing Countries (activated in 2004,
  after the implementation of the Bologna process).
  Still the only existing pilot in Italy
• Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
  UNESCO
• Framework of the 8 Millennium Development Goals

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OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY - To put in evidence
two ROLES OF THE ACCADEMIC COMMUNITY as actor of
a shared responsibility on Development issues

• 1- Research of the tools to study and monitor the
  Development trend
• the indicators
• 2- Added value of University curricular
  activities which didactic contents are planned in
  the perspective of the Millennium Development
  Goals study case presented

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Risks and Criticities

• Participation (Jan Pronk, the MDGs and the
  Policies of Globalization)
• Window dressing (L. Gold, Understanding the risk
  of the MDGs)
• Gap finalities - methodologies (R.Bissio,
  Civil Society and the MDGs)
• Human Rights Paradigm (A. Sitta, lezioni di
  Diritto allo Sviluppo e Obiettivi del
  Millennio)
• Not measurable neither comparable Indicators
  (Amir Attaran, LONU prigioniera degli MDGs,
  Darwin, Nov.05)

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Risks and Criticities SOME EXAMPLES
Lack of the initial reference values Target
11 ? temporal range not univoque (2020)
Indicatore 32 ? lack of a definitions
framework (safe house) Lack of correlation among
the indicators
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Litterature other indicators

• Aggregated indicators
• ISU (UNPD)
• ESI (Center for Global Development)
• Impronta Ecologica (Rees, Wackernagel)
• ICE (European Community and Agency for the
  Environment)
• Indicators of Bellagio (Italian Statistics
  National Conference)

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Litterature other indicators

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (UNDP)
• Aggregated indicator

• Life expectancy
• Education
• Economy

• Ecologic FOOTPRINT (Rees, Wackernagel)
• Measure Unit
• bioproductive equivalent surface

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Litterature other indicators
Every individual 1,7 ha
WORLD ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT DISTRIBUTION (2003)
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Litterature other indicators
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
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HOW TO BUILD an INDICATOR
Principles that are at the base of the direction
towards which the system goes
Basic Orientators
Different Ethic Principles can lead towards
different sustainable goals and paths. (Johnson,
1991)
Choice Principles and criteria

• EDUCATION, ECOLOGY, ETHICS, ECONOMY
• LONGER TIME SCALE

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PROPOSAL OF A NEW INDICATOR
Choice Axiom Zermelo-Fraenkel (1920)
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PROPOSAL OF A NEW INDICATOR
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PROPOSAL OF A NEW INDICATOR
Research of a principle of equivalence ?
ACTIONS TIME ?TIME DEDICATED TIME THE
DEDICATED TIME IS - MEASURE UNIT AND A READING
GRID - NEW VALUES WITHIN THE MAN NATURE
SOCIETY RELATIONSHIPS
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PROPOSAL OF A NEW INDICATOR

• DEVELOPMENT as a concept that belongs to a set of
  observables and indeed measurables
• DEVELOPMENT as system actractor. Actractor of the
  ACTIONS identified as DEDICATED TIME

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THE DEDICATED TIME

• It is GENERALIZABLE
• Each unit, from the single person to the
  institution or association, in DEDICATING TIME
  PRODUCES DEVELOPMENT, both in terms of formation
  than of action
• Range of time scale individuals life
• ? LONG TIME

Oskar Lange (1960)
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Application of the theory of the dedicated time,
DT to different realities

• University
• School
• Firm
• Government
• Individuals

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Application of the theory of the dedicated time,
DT to different realities

• University
• School
• Firm
• Government
• Individuals

ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Ask for engineers with competencies different
from the past called the engineers of the 21st
century and explicit need of a curricola
reforming that integrate disciplinar aspects from
other scintific and cultural fields (European
Journal of Engineering Education, SEFI)
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Master degree in Appropriate Environmental
Technologies for Developing Countries
In parallel with the educative goals of the
traditional environmental engineer, the specific
goals are related to the acquisition of specific
personal skills. In order to form professional
figures with technical-scientific competencies
but also with attitudes and skills related to
team work, multi disciplines and inter cultural
dialog capacities, in order to be able to
evaluate in a appropriate way the environmental,
social and cultural impact of complex situations.
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Master degree in Appropriate Environmental
Technologies for Developing Countries
Curriculum builded in the perspective of the
achievment of the Millennium Development Goals
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Master degree in Appropriate Environmental
Technologies for Developing Countries
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STUDY CASE ESTRAPOLATION OF THE 4 ORIENTATORS

It is indeed possible to find within each class
actions, contents and didactics belonging to one
of each of the E
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DEDICATED HOURS AND THE 4E
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Possible European level cooperation Erasmus
Mundus
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CONCLUSIONS

• logical mathematical approach for the
  individuation od the orientators and of a measure
  unit pin order to make them commutable
• The criticities of the MDGs can be overcome
• Application to a context of a university
  curriculum
• DESD crucial role of the Education

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APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING TOWARDS THE
ACHIEVMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
SUSTAINABLE MESIANO 2015

• Camilla Archetti, Guido Zolezzi, Agustí
  Perez-Foguet
• University of Trento, Civil and Environmental
  Engineering Department
• Via Mesiano, 77 38100 Trento, Italy
• Phone [phone]
• ETSECCPB, Universitat Politènica de Catalunya
• C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3
• 08034 Barcelona, Spain
• camilla.archetti_at_ing.unitn.it, guido.zolezzi_at_ing.u
  nitn.it, agusti.perez_at_upc.edu

THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION
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