Sustainability

As a professional land and university in New Zealand, our mission of providing food and living well in the world is combined with the desire to protect the future.

We recognize that healthy ecosystems and environments are essential for the survival of humans and other living things and that the economy is a social subsystem of the biophysical environment. In order to operate in a sustainable way, the human economy and society must act. These restrictions are constraints on the natural system of the earth.

Lincoln University (with Canterbury College and Canterbury Aras Laboratory) recognizes that sustainability of the environment must be carried out within the tertiary industry, but also in research, education and support activities It is.

The Environmental Sustainability Advisory Group (SAGE) is responsible for confirming that the university is taking on the earth gently.

2017 Environmental Sustainability Policy outlines Lincoln's commitment as an international leader (and a leading organization in New Zealand) in promoting and achieving ecological, social and economic sustainability. This commitment is in line with our strategic direction and covers all aspects of research, curriculum, promotion, architectural design, facility management, and management practices including all faculties and farms of the university.

In addition to SAGE, the Lincoln Environmental Organization (LEO), managed by students, with the strong support of the Lincoln University Student Association, plays an important role in promoting sustainable development. Significant efforts in energy conservation, water management and resource recovery

As a pioneer of sustainable development, we have a long history. LEO was founded in 1990. Three years later, the University Council passed the Environmental Charter. With this, environmental policy (the first in higher education institutions in New Zealand) was announced in 1993. In 1999, the university agreed to establish an environmental working group to implement environmental policies.

Everyone on the campus can help to achieve environmental sustainability, simple actions such as turning off unnecessary lighting, printing basic documents, using public transport, or cycling to the campus Even it can be realized. Change

Please send an e-mail to the Environmental Sustainability Action Team via sage@lincoln.ac.nz or Lincoln Environment Organization leolincolnuni@gmail.com.

Sustainability alone is not a sufficient goal. The term sustainable development itself is not enough as we do not tell us what we really want to keep. Two years after writing my doctoral thesis for sustainable design, in 2005 I began to realize that I wanted to actually maintain the basic patterns of health, resilience, and adaptability to keep the Earth healthy. The whole can prosper. Sustainable design is ultimately designed for human and world health (Wahl, 2006b)

One shortcoming of the term sustainability is that it does not mean that we have to maintain for the first time. The author provides possible answers in his PhD thesis "Health Design of Humans and Planets: Integrated Approach to Complexity and Sustainability". Three years later he tied theory to practice and explored research as a catalyst for integrated design thinking between educators, between disciplines, between ecology families and universities, and between sustainable approaches of different design scales . And bridge the contractors between the public sector. , Business and civil society. Important concepts leading to his approach are education as meta design, time and space joint design (Wahl, 2007), childbirth (healing) design (Wahl, 2006a) and movement of natural design (Wahl, 2006b) . The center of this participatory approach is the role of a designer as an interdisciplinary integrator and facilitator (Wahl & Baxter, 2008).

In the "Sustainable Design" course, we are working to maintain healthy support relationships at individual, community, ecosystem and global level. Sustainability design in a general sense is the design of human and earth health (see Wahl, 2006). Salutogenic's design aims to prosper and create a resilient recycling culture through prosperous communities of highly biologically produced ecosystems. If you promise to promote positive health and overall prosperity by changing potential relationships and interactions rather than focusing on alleviating the symptoms of disease or health problems, It appears as property. Total scale