Wales: A Model of Sustainability

The geographical model

Wales is a small country of about three million people in a total area of 20 thousand km2. It has a north/south rural/urban inbalance of population, but is unified through a vision of sustainable development linking northern upland farmers with southern city dwellers. This holistic vision has been summarised as 'One Wales One Planet'.

Methodology: intended and actual impacts.

'Resilience in Wales' is designed to present case studies emphasising urban-rural linkages that can help to foster common approaches and activities which follow the principles of sustainable development in the context of systems thinking.

'One Wales: One Planet' requires the inclusive participation of all its citizens within a common understanding of the nation as a sustainable human ecological niche. In this context, the GMS is a tool for establishing a kind of on-line ecomuseum telling this story. Its sites consitute a gallery of local plans and action lists. They detail routes through the materials and energy descent necessary for establishing the required two-way feedbacks between natural systems and human behaviour. By interacting with the map, urban and rural dwellers alike willl be able to discover common pathways to get into action and move towards planning resilient, low impact lifesyles.

Landscape mind and meaning

Group, partners and audience

The group consists of volunteer educationalists, community activists, museologists and system thinkers.

The partners are voluntary groups operating action plans based on the goals of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

The audience is individuals and groups who wish to pursue the three E's of "sustainable development" i.e.: Environment, Economy and Equity.

Download this file, which is a review of the logic of organising action for community betterment