the economics of well-being of water reuse
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The Economics of Well-being of Water Reuse
Mark Anielski CHO, Genuine Wealth Inc.
Author, The Economics of Happiness
June 26, 2014
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Measuring What Matters to Well-Being.
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What is the problem we are trying to solve? To USE or ReUse?
Measuring what matters
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Is water reuse in the best interest of the well-being of current and
future generations?
Is that the right question?
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Ray Anderson Founder
Interface Inc.
“We have a new vision: to become a leader in industrial ecology by first
becoming a sustainable corporation and eventually a restorative enterprise.”
(1934-2011)
Doing Well, Be Doing GOOD
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The 21st Century flourishing enterprise: Optimizing Relationships
Suppliers
Market
Customers
Biosphere
Community
Lithosphere
Natural Materials Waste to Landfill
Solar Energy
Raw Material
$ $
Products
Organic & Inorganic
Source: Based on Interface Inc. model
Waste Emissions
Employees Wages Investments Taxes Laws and Values Service Sensitivity Expectations
Social Capital
Natural Capital
Produced Capital
Financial Capital
Human Capital
Core Values
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Luca Pacioli 1494
Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita
All wealth belongs to the Creator (God)
There is no such thing as a profit
Are we measuring what
matters?
Florence, Italy
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Value (Latin:valorum)
To be worthy or strong
Venice
Virtue (Latin:valorum)
The moral excellence of a person A trait valued as being good
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Wealth The conditions of well-being
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What would Warren Buffet look for?
Warren loves health balance sheets
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Shuswap Lake, British Columbia
Where is the natural capital balance sheet for Alberta’s watersheds?
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financial capital
Virtues
Values
5 Capitals of Genuine
Wealth
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Human Capital
Nunavut, Canada
(People): The life capabilities or capacities of people in an organization or community including their level of education (knowledge, skills, competencies), experience, motivation, health, happiness, available time (life-energy) and spiritual well-being that facilitates the creation of personal, social and economic well-being.
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Social Capital
The relationships, networks and norms amongst family, friends and colleagues that facilitates collective action; doing things together and for each other, usually without financial compensation [reciprocity]. This includes friendships, clubs, associations, community leagues, neighbourhood socials, churches, email chat groups, workplace climate, and family outings.
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Natural Capital
The environmental stocks and systems that provide us with the many natural materials and services upon which we rely to sustain economic activity. This includes natural resources, land, and ecosystems.
Nature is the model of abundance
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Built Capital
Built Capital The produced goods that provide benefits or services to their owners over time, by helping produce other goods and services. This includes equipment, buildings, machinery, roads, patents and other infrastructure.
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Financial Capital
The financial or monetary assets of an organization, including cash and other financial instruments.
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Buildings Equipment Information Infrastructure
Human-made Material
Skills Health Abilities Education
Family Neighbours Community Companies Government
People Connections
Food Water Metals Wood Energy
Natural Resources Ecosystem Services Beauty of Nature
Fisheries Fertile soil Water filtration CO2 > Oxygen
Mountains Seashores Sunlight Rainbows Bird songs
Built Capital
Human and Social Capital
Natural Capital
Source: Hart, Maureen (1999). Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
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Five Capitals of Genuine Wealth The Conditions of Well-being The things that make life worthwhile
Capital Accounts Structure
Stocks Flows Monetary (Costs-Benefits)
Subjective
Monetary
Sustainability Indicators
Balance Sheet
Assets Liabilities Shareholder Equity
Income Statement
Gross Revenues (GDP)
Social Costs Natural Capital Depreciation Environmental Pollution Costs
Objective
Inventory
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It’s time that governments put natural assets on their balance sheets Natural Capital Account Balance Sheet Assets Liabilities
Shareholder’s Equity
Land Arable Land Grassland Forest Land Wetlands Other Lands
Water resources Surface water Ground water Water quality
Energy Crude oil Crude bitumen Natural gas Coal Renewable energy capacity
Minerals (gold, copper, other minerals)
Timber Ecological Goods and Services
17 services
Greenhouse gas emissions Industrial, Household
Solid wastes Toxic wastes Loss of Ecological Integrity Cost of pollution Unsustainable renewable resource use Depreciation of non-renewable energy resources
Returns on natural capital economic rents Distribution of natural capital (domestic/export)
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Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) economic, social and environmental sustainability indicators
Community Capital Accounts Quality of Life Indicators
Provincial Capital Accounts
National Capital Accounts
Sustainability Accounting System
Corporate
Provincial
Community
National
Scale
Eco-system (e.g. drainage basin)
Current Sustainability Accounting Initiatives (some examples)
Companies using GRI guidelines: • BC Hydro • Suncor Energy • TransAlta • Van City Savings Credit Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting: 57 Canadian companies prepare environmental, social or sustainability reports; 22 prepare “triple bottom line” sustainability reports. (Stratos Report Stepping Forwar: Corporate Sustainability) Reporting in Canada:
•Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Quality of Life Indicators •Sustainable Calgary •Hamilton Vision 202
• Fraser Basin Sustainability Indicators •Georgia Basin (QUEST) • StatsCan “Trends in Cities” project (drainage basin scale) • NRCAN QofL mapping
• Yukon CEE “Sustainable Progress Indicators” • B.C. Environmental Trends • Alberta Round Table on E&E – SD indicators • Manitoba SOE (1997)
• StatsCan Econnections/National Capital Accounts • Env. Can. CISE • CPRN Quality of Life Indicators
Canadian Sustainability Accounting System
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Linkages between Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Provisioning (products obtained from ecosystems) • Food • Freshwater • Fuelwood • Fiber • Biochemicals • Genetic resources
Regulating (benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem processes) • Climate regulation • Disease regulation • Water regulation • Water purification
Cultural (Nonmaterial benefits obtained from ecosystems) • Spiritual and religious • Recreation/ecotourism • Aesthetic • Inspirational • Educational • Sense of place • Cultural heritage
Supporting (Services necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services) • Nutrient cycling • Soil formation • Primary production
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Determinants and Constituents of Well-being
Security • Ability to live in an environmentally clean and safe shelter • Ability to reduce vulnerability to ecological shocks and stress
Basic material for good life • Ability to access resources to earn income and gain a livelihood.
Health • Ability to be adequately nourished. • Ability to be free from avoidable diseases • Ability to have adequate and clean drinking water • Ability to have clean air • Ability to have energy to keep warm and cool
Good social relations • Opportunities to express aesthetic and recreational values associated with ecosystems. • Opportunity to express cultural and spiritual values associated with ecosystems. • Opportunity to observe, study and learn about ecosystems.
Freedoms and choice Opportunities to be able to achieve what an individual values doing and being. Low
Medium
High
ARROWS COLOR Potential for mediation by socioeconomic factors
ARROWS WIDTH Intensity of linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being
Weak
Medium
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The question: What is the highest-and-best
use of our natural assets?
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ecology oikos (household) logia (knowledge)
Shuswap Lake, British Columbia
A renaissance in economics and business
What contributes to or impairs our well-being?
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Counting Canada’s Natural Capital: Assessing the Real Value of Canada’s Boreal Ecosystems Mark Anielski & Sara Wilson
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Tree cover in a watershed contributes to reduced water
treatment costs.
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Well-being Accounts for Canada’s Watersheds
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Watersheds of Wellbeing and Happiness?
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Canada’s carbon budget
Between 2000-2003 Canada’s forests and wetlands only had the carbon absorptive capacity to absorb 36.6% of Canada’s total GHG emissions in 2006
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How healthy our soils?
Alberta’s SOC declining
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The most important contributors to increasing GHG emissions in Canada are not average Canadian households, per se, but rather industry, especially oil and gas industries along with electricity and heat generation facilities. Much of the demand for the output from these industries is being driven by relatively higher US import demands versus increasing Canadian consumer demands.
Canada’s carbon liability
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Measuring Ecological Integrity
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Economic Activity and Ecosystem Services in the North Saskatchewan River Basin
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Each of us is a flower, growing in life’s garden
There is no wealth but life; Life, including all its powers of love,
of joy, and of admiration.
-- John Ruskin
How will human development contribute to net-positive (or
negative) well-being in our watersheds?
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Nunavut, Canada
What is the optimum balance of positive and negative impacts on well-being?
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Safe Communities
Are you realizing the highest-and-best USE from our watershed?
Field, B.C.
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The State of Well-being of
Canada’s Watersheds in 2014
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Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, Canada
I see a future where economic growth, GDP and profit maximization will be replaced by
well-being optimization
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What will you do on Monday for your watershed?