Professor and Dean of the Geneva School of Social Science, the University of Geneva

 

Professor and Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

 

 

 

The notion of scale is an intrinsic dimension of sustainable development, yet it has so far escaped systematic consideration. The main objective of the lecture is to correct this oversight. Echoing recent scholarship on the politics of scale, it suggests that a simplistic view of scale limited to upward and downward shifts across levels of jurisdiction currently predominates. An improved understanding of scale as it pertains to sustainable development has to consider how, and by whom, scales are socially constructed. The benefits of this approach, illustrated through short case studies of mountains, are a greater recognition of the diverse cast of actors and a finer appreciation of integration across sustainable development dimensions. Both will be useful on the way to 2030 and beyond.

 

 

Bernard Debarbieux is Professor of cultural and political geography and urban and regional planning. He joined the University of Geneva staff in 2002, and has been the Dean of the Geneva School of Social Sciences since 2014. Before that, he taught in Grenoble and Paris (France), New York, Marrakech and Montreal. As a researcher, he is specialized in the production of geographical knowledge and imagination, and related practices in planning, environmental governance and sustainability. His main objects of research are the mountain regions at a national, regional and global scales.

 

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承办：清华大学全球可持续发展研究院