Lectures related to Sustainability and Wealth

Limits to Growth: Depletable Resources and Sustainable Development

Delves into growth with finite resources, discussing the Club of Rome's report, resource management through prices, and challenges of resource depletion.

Natural Resources: Depletion & Sustainability

Delves into economic growth, resource abundance, sustainability, and management risks.

Limits of Growth: Technological Progress and Sustainability

Examines the limits of growth concerning technological progress and sustainability, emphasizing energy consumption and ecological constraints.

Sustainability: Wealth-Based Assessment

Explores wealth-based assessment for testing sustainability, wealth accounting, natural capital use, convergence in wealth, ANS calculation, and project topics.

Efficiency & Decoupling: Understanding Environmental Impact

Delves into efficiency, decoupling, and environmental impact assessment, highlighting the complexities of balancing economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Material and Energy Flow Analysis

Covers Material and Energy Flow Analysis for resource management, focusing on methodologies and examples from cities like Vienna and Paris.

The Extractive Economy: From Extraction to Sustainability

Delves into the historical growth of population and economic activities through increased extraction of resources, discussing the transition to a sustainable economy and the possibility of economic growth.

Natural Stone: Sustainable Architecture

Discusses the sustainable aspects of natural stone as a building material and its potential to enrich contemporary architecture.

Resource-Constrained World: Metals, Energy, and Sustainability

Explores challenges in a resource-constrained world, focusing on metals, energy, and sustainability, including recycling rates and low-tech solutions.

Permaculture and Energy Descent

Explores permaculture, energy descent, and future scenarios for sustainable living and community resilience.

Recycling and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Solutions

Examines the role of recycling in sustainable development, addressing its limitations and the importance of a circular economy.

Concrete: Care and Cultural Value

Examines the importance of concrete in infrastructure and the need for sustainable maintenance practices.

Reviving Existing Buildings: Re-Use, Recycle, Revaluate

Delves into the potential of existing buildings through transformations that reduce emissions and costs, creating sustainable spaces for post-carbon society.

Wealth-based Assessment: Sustainability and Wealth

Explores wealth-based assessment, wealth accounting, natural capital use, and convergence of wealth among nations.

Climate & Sustainability Action Week: Keynote Address

By Prof. Julia Steinberger delves into the impact of climate change on societal well-being, emphasizing the need for radical transformations to combat planetary crises.

From Sustainable Development to Planetary Boundaries

Covers the transition from sustainable development to planetary boundaries, exploring weak and strong sustainability concepts, international agendas, and global socio-economic trends.

Life Cycle Assessment: Environmental Impact Evaluation

Covers Life Cycle Assessment methodologies for evaluating environmental impacts of products.

Remote Indigenous Australia: Challenges and Solutions

Delves into challenges faced by remote Indigenous communities in Australia, focusing on land rights and housing solutions.

Global Challenges: Understanding Sustainability and Human Impact

Covers global sustainability challenges, focusing on planetary boundaries and the impact of human activities on the environment.

Ruined by Design?: Design for Sustainability I

Explores the harmful impact of industrial design on people and the environment.