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6 PATHWAYS FORWARD
Pages 35-40

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... ENVISIONING A SUSTAINABLE ATLANTA REGION Jeremy Hess, assistant professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, remarked that sustainability as a goal sounds like a utopian ideal, and so it is helpful to focus on asking what a sustainable Atlanta region would look like. Numerous participants emphasized that there did not seem to be a collective vision for the region, but that such a vision might help individuals and institutions coalesce around this idea of sustainability.
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From page 36...
... The initiative will include a series of public forums held quarterly to discuss a variety of key topics associated with sustainability in Atlanta. In addition, John Crittenden, director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems with the Georgia Institute of Technology, mentioned a recent Georgia Tech project to model scenarios where sprawling development was "reversed" and metropolitan Atlanta's natural systems (primarily forest cover)
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... Additionally, an informed citizenry has the potential to influence the political climate and to elect leaders and public officials that are receptive to creating sustainability goals and implementing programs that achieve those goals. A number of participants suggested that, without a bottom-up demand for sustainability, it is unlikely that champions would emerge in the region's elected leadership.
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... , is not actually benefiting the public good. As several speakers and participants noted, this appears to be a role for multistakeholder partnerships, where research agencies have their priorities informed by decision makers' informational needs, and research outputs can be handed off to organizations who can disseminate (or translate, as needed)
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... PATHWAYS FORWARD 39 Graeme Lockaby, director, Center for Forest Sustainability, Auburn University, stated that it is important to recognize societal benefits and the value of preserving ecosystems that exist on the urban–rural boundary. Ecologists want to be part of the sustainability solution and their knowledge of local ecosystems and adaptive management principles could be employed to enhance public understanding of the issues.
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