Special Issue "Creative Solutions to Big Challenges"

Guest Editor
Dr. Aled Jones
Global Sustainability Institute, Faculty Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK
Website: http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fst/staff/dr_aled_jones.html
E-Mail: aled.jones@anglia.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1223 698931
Interests: resources; finance; climate change; policy; sustainability; investment

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue comprises selected papers from the 1st Global Sustainability Institute Annual Conference, held at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in May 2013. The Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) is a University-wide body which spans a broad portfolio of areas and interests related to sustainability. We recognise that delivering sustainability requires an integrated view of the world and, above all, see our main role as helping develop practical solutions. We work to collate information needed to make decisions and present it to the people capable of implementing action. Our research is focused around personal motivations and systems change set against the challenges of sustainability. Our core research question is how does the system influence the individual, and how does the individual influence the system?
The conference identified and investigated the big sustainability challenges that we are faced with today and provided a range of creative solutions from different disciplines to address these. Contributions from health, technology, culture, science and policy areas highlighted the broad range of challenges and solutions that exist.
Papers selected for this special issue were subject to a peer review procedure with the aim of a wide dissemination of research results, developments and applications.

Dr. Aled Jones,
Guest Editor

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Papers selected for this special issue were subject to a peer review procedure with the aim of a wide dissemination of research results, developments and applications. Details of the conference can be found at http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/global_sustainability_institute/conference_2013.html?utm_source=gsi/conference2013&utm_medium=url&utm_campaign=redirect

• sustainability
• solutions
• creativity
• challenges
• risks
• opportunities