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Towards a sustainable building culture;
Sustainability rating systems aiming at balancing the ecological, economical and socio-cultural aspects of our built environment. Whereas criteria for sustainability are widely applied, strategies and methodologies employed still follow classical building design approaches. Although efficiency and consistency strategies have been widely accepted and implemented in design, planning or operation procedures, it has been observed that they lead to rebound effects diminishing the effectiveness of the implemented measures. There is a third strategy, sufficiency, which is less known and not yet, the common basis in building design approaches. While efficiency and consistency strategies mainly rely on technology application, sufficiency rather refers to the right measure and requires involvement of user and societal aspects of the built environment. In order to deploy all three strategies and use their full potential assuming a transdisciplinary perspective and integrating knowledge from different disciplines appears to be necessary.
Fransisca Abiarsi,
Real Estate Developer
Making Your Vision a Reality
Project Management for Development;
Basic project management concepts and techniques
Tools and key tactics that facilitate good communication
Project management international standards and tools
How to identify success factors based on experiences​
Risk Management in Development Projects;
Identify the main stages involved in preparing a risk management plan for development projects following the IDB’s methodology, which is based on PMI’s international standards, to successfully achieve expected results and impacts.
Recognize the process of identifying risks that may affect the project and documenting their characteristics to facilitate risk analysis and subsequent management.
Recognize the main elements of the risk analysis process and evaluating and combining risks’ probability of occurrence and impact to prioritize them.
Recognize risk management strategies that allow for managing opportunities and threats that could impact the project’s objectives.
Recognize the main elements of the risk monitoring process and continuously optimizing responses to improve efficiency when managing the project life cycle.
Sustainable Urban Development;
The most relevant challenges that metropolitan regions are facing
How you can respond to these challenges
Examples of sustainable, metropolitan interventions and solutions
How to critically reflect on and engage in the sustainable cities debate
Innovative solutions for your own urban living environment
Socially Responsible Real Estate Development;
Identify the key features of socially responsible real estate development
Articulate the key elements of the practice of EIA and SIA
Use the results of SIA and EIA to analyze large-scale real estate development projects
Define a personal theory of socially responsible real estate development and a strategy for implementing it
Understand how SIA and EIA can create value for all stakeholders in any kind of development situation
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Leadership in Global Development;
An understanding of the prominent perspectives, trends, and challenges of leadership styles in development.
Critical knowledge of the science, practice and policy of sustainable pathways to development.
Skills in adaptive development practice, in finding local solutions to complex problems, and for scaling those solutions to improve policy.
The ability to apply critical reasoning to the analysis of development-related issues.