Presentation

Abstracts & Biographies

Introduction

Session 1: Planning for sustainable campuses and cities: creating places of knowledge

> Guiding questions :

• How can master planning for sustainability optimally structure the interfaces between buildings and users, different buildings on campus, and campus and the surrounding communities?
• How can it affect regional development?

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Session 2: Implementation: Green buildings and beyond

> Guiding questions :

• How can the latest sustainable building guidelines best be adapted to and implemented in university and corporate campus settings?
• How can operations on campus be optimized for sustainability?
• How can funding for such environmental and social measures be secured?
• What challenges existed, could they be overcome?

> Contributors & Documents:

Session 3: Learning: integrating facilities and outreach in research and education

> Guiding questions :

• How to best create “buildings and campus plans that teach” in relation to sustainable development by demonstrating and inspiring cutting edge research on environmental and social issues?
• How to integrate research, education and facilities and transcend disciplinary boundaries, a requisite for socially salient solutions?
• What can University communities do to help anchor best practices in society at large?

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Session 4: Focus: Towards Low Carbon Communities

> Contributors : Petra Schweizer-Ries, University of Saarbrücken, Germany; Ying Hua, University of Cornell, USA; Hongwei Tan, Tongji University, China

> Guiding question : What tools, concepts and strategies can we develop that help to think , plan and communicate about reducing CO2 emissions in campus communities?

Session 5: ISCN developments and tools

> Contributors & Documents