Detailed description (English): The massive increase in mobility of people, goods, ideas, and data in quantity and speed poses tremendous challenges, but it also presents many opportunities for individuals, groups, regions, governments, businesses, and industries. Mobility is inseparable from urbanisation, social transformation, scientific and technological advancement, socioeconomic development, prosperity and well-being, and, ultimately, sustainability.
Here some examples from research foci on the so-called mobility turn:
- The enormous opportunities for social and economic development associated with mobility, particularly for developing countries, and the thus arising environmental costs.
- The incompatibility between mobility preferences and global sustainable development.
- The limits of the current infrastructure and how it must be developed, despite an unknown future.
- The disconnection between technological development and individual or societal needs.
- The consequences of the shrinking of time and space for the economy and for social life.
- Large-scale migration away from poverty- and conflict-ridden regions, from rural to urban areas, and from the heartlands toward coasts, and its impact on regional, national, and global politics and infrastructure inadequacy.
- Incentive-based relocation of service and manufacturing centres and their consequences on accountability and governance, environmental and labour conditions, and on fiduciary and corporate responsibilities.
The 2nd Basel Sustainability Forum will address some of these issues, covering local as well as global links to mobility. It brings together representatives from academia, politics, and the private sector to discuss current and future developments of mobility systems and their consequences on the future of mobility.
In the name of the organisers and sponsors of this event, I am looking forward to welcoming you in Basel on 15 September 2017.
Target group(s): The 2nd Basel Sustainability Forum will address some of these issues, covering local as well as global links to mobility. It brings together representatives from academia, politics, and the private sector to discuss current and future developments of mobility systems and their consequences on the future of mobility.
Expected Outcomes: 100-150 participants
Partner: MDPI AG, University of Basel, Sustainability Office University of Basel, Sustainability, Infrastructures, Urban Science, SAGW, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, The Sustainable Corporate Responsibility (SCORE) Group, Interreg Oberrhein - Rhin Supérieur, EPFL Lausanne, EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK