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In October 2012, the Symposium Series was launched with the ‘Closing the Gap: Aligning strategies towards sustainable resource use’ seminar, a strategy-setting gathering of senior academic, industry and government representatives, brought together to debate some of the current challenges in global sustainable resource use.
A number of issues were raised within the ‘Closing the Gap’ debate which link closely to the existing work within GCSC themes, most prominently:
- Growing global population
- Growing global middle-class
- Growing urban population
- Actual or potential scarcity of strategic resources such as energy, water and food, resulting in rising and volatile prices
- The role of local action and local management of strategic resources
- The role for science in the sustainability debate
Outputs
The Closing the Gap document, which provides a summary of the debate, raises additional questions, and will act as a guideline to the content design for subsequent events in the series.
