Sustainability Monitoring- Enhancing the Mauri

Sustainability Assessment and Decision Making for Enhanced Well-being: Mauri Tu, Mauri Ora.

Date and Time: Thursday 18 June, 7-30pm

Venue: Room 3.407 School of Engineering, University of Auckland,

Speaker: Dr Kepa Morgan BE, MBA , PhD, MIPENZ, CPEng, IntPE(NZ)

Achieving genuine societal commitment to sustainability is a difficult challenge when society struggles to simultaneously achieve the illusive objectives of sustainability and economic wealth accumulation. Decision making that is dominated by economic imperatives contributes much of this difficulty.

This talk introduces the Mauri Model, a decision making framework that integrates the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being dimensions of sustainability referred to in Aotearoa New Zealand legislation such as the Resource Management Act and the Local Government Act. The Mauri Model is a new decision-making framework that adopts mauri (’integrity’ or the binding force between the physical and the spiritual elements) as the measure of well-being in place of the monetary basis used conventionally for sustainability assessment. The intention is to encourage the pursuit of enhanced mauri (kaitiakitanga) and holistic well-being instead of the pursuit of enhanced economic wealth.

Kepa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Associate Dean Maori for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland, as well as Managing Director of Mahi Maioro Professionals. During his twenty plus years of experience in environmental engineering, many as a Chartered Professional Engineer, Kepa has strived to implement sustainable approaches to engineering solutions.

RSVP: John McShane McShane.J@akl-airport.co.nz

For more info including session bio, see here:
http://esr.org.nz/2009/05/kepa-morgan-esr-auckland-june-talk/

Source: Peter Goldsbury (thanks Peter)