Technology in Sustainable Development
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Recommended literature on backcasting
Background information for the backcasting project and references for Curritiba ( via TU library):
- Buis J, van Dorst MJ, van Keeken E (2002) Leren van Lerner: duurzame ontwikkeling in Curitiba en Parana, TUDelft, Ecological City programme.
- Meurs P (1998) Curitiba: een integraal stedelijk proces, in: P Meurs, E Agricola (red.) Brazilië - laboratorium van architectuur en stedenbouw, Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers, 194-211.
- Rabinovitch J (1996) Innovative land use and public transport policy: the case of Curitiba, Brazil, Land Use Policy 13(1): 51-67.
- Rabinovitch, J.; Leitman, J. Urban planning in Curitiba. Scientific American. Vol. 274, no. 3, pp. 26-33. Mar. 1996
- Rabinovitch J (1992) Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development, Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 4, No. 2, 62-73.
Theory Behind Backcasting
2006_Futures_Quist_Vergragt_Backcasting.pdf Past and future of backcasting: The shift to stakeholder participation and a proposal for a methodological framework. |
The impact of backcasting experiments for sustainable system innovations after 10 years
The impact of backcasting experiments forsustainable system innovations after 10 years. |
Evaluation of the Sustainable Development Graduation Track at Delft University of Technology
De_Werk_and_Kamp_track.pdf.pdf This paper evaluates the sustainable development graduation track at TU Delft. This track can be followed by all students of TU Delft. This paper deals with the numbers of students that follow the track, with the results of a questionnaire among the students, and with the jobs students have found after graduation. |
Backcasting for Sustainability in Engineering Education: The Case of Delft University of Technology
This paper deals with teaching participatory backcasting to engineering students as part of the graduate specialisation in sustainability at TU Delft. A course is described using backcasting, sustainable future visions, a systems orientation, and interviews with stakeholders and multidisciplinary project work. The essentials of backcasting are presented before an outline and results from the backcasting course are described. It is concluded that it has been possible to develop a ‘light’ version of participatory backcasting that can be taught to engineering students in a useful way during a course of 3 study credits. |
Connecting Silos: Ways to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Learning for Sustainable Development
de_Eyto_and_de_Werk_connecting_silos__EESD08_def.pdf Specialism in disciplines such as Engineering and Design allow fordetailed expertise, deep thought and complex research. The negativeside to disciplinary specialism is the increasing focus on getting toknow more about what is already known.To really solve thesustainability problems that currently occur we need to reverse thetrend of overspecialisation and reconnect (future) engineers anddesigners to the outer world and themselves. This paper examines thecurrent efforts at TU Delft (Technical University Delft) in theNetherlands and IT Carlow (Institute of Technology Carlow) in Irelandto encourage interdisciplinary projects that assist students fromdifferent disciplines to cooperate and learn from each other. |
