Olivier SerratGeorgetown University | GU · School of Continuing Studies
Olivier Serrat
Doctor of Philosophy
Researching Environmental Peacebuilding
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Introduction
Action Theorist | Author of Leading Organizations of the Future (2023), Mere Words, These (2023), Digital Solutions (2023), Flash Fiction (2022), Leading Solutions (2021), Knowledge Solutions (2017), Learning in Development (2010) | Editor of Guidelines for Knowledge Partnerships (2011), ADB: Reflections and Beyond (2010) | Conducting Research on Environmental Peacebuilding | Formerly Head of Knowledge Management at the Asian Development Bank
Additional affiliations
August 2017 - June 2023
Position
- Organizational Leadership Theorist
Description
- Explored how metagovernance, complexity leadership, and sense-making can suggest context-specific modes of leadership.
April 1992 - June 2017
Position
- Principal Knowledge Management Specialist
Description
- Headed the Knowledge Management Center from 2008–2012 and for two consecutive years—2011 and 2012—earned ADB an Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises award. Worked also on environmental management, evaluation, ICT, projects, strategic planning, etc.
Education
August 2023 - August 2025
August 2017 - June 2023
April 1985 - June 1986
International Christian University
Field of study
- Japanese Language Program
Publications
Publications (664)
In light of escalating climate extremes, this précis outlines a proposed climate change adaptation strategy for Vietnam. The proposed strategy establishes guiding principles, lists priorities, addresses uncertainties, provides rough cost estimates for specific tasks and solutions, and explores financing options. By highlighting Vietnam's climate vu...
The central thesis of Muñoz Molina's (2015) essay, Don Quixote or the Art of Becoming, is that the essence of Don Quixote (Cervantes, 2003) lies in its profound exploration of identity and the process of becoming. This précis examines and elucidates Muñoz Molina's (2015) central thesis, types of evidence used, and method of argument, and highlights...
Referencing Castillo and Egginton (2022), this précis suggests that in an era where emotional appeals and misinformation overshadow objective facts, Cervantes’s Don Quixote offers timeless insights into the complexities of truth and reality, highlighting the enduring relevance of critical thinking and literature.
Terry Gilliam’s 2018 film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, reimagines Cervantes’s timeless tale. This précis examines how Gilliam’s (2018) film not only adapts but also, to a lesser extent, appropriates the original text to create a narrative that resonates with contemporary viewers.
As one of the top 10 largest emitters of greenhouse gases, Indonesia’s intensified actions are crucial for significantly impacting global climate goals and protecting its vulnerable ecosystems and communities. This précis details an urgent climate change mitigation strategy for Indonesia, emphasizing the need for immediate and sustained efforts to...
Referencing Felski (2008, 2015) and Klages (2017), this précis postulates that literary theory acts as a crucial guide for interpreting literature and understanding its cultural context. By adopting various theoretical perspectives, we enhance our comprehension and appreciation of the relationship between literature and society. This approach allow...
This response to Felski (2008) explores how its literary phenomenology challenges traditional hermeneutics, inviting readers to experience literature in personal and intellectually stimulating ways.
This response to Felski (2008) explores how its literary phenomenology challenges traditional hermeneutics, inviting readers to experience literature in personal and intellectually stimulating ways.
If the world's militaries were a country, they would rank as the fourth-largest global emitter of carbon dioxide. This presentation makes the case for greening the military; identifies opportunities in the areas of climate change mitigation but also resource management and conservation and environmental diplomacy; and signals practicable entry poin...
This précis highlights the emergence of environmental peacebuilding as a growing field of research and practice, referencing environmental degradation and despoilation, including climate change. Despite promising developments, there remains a critical need to understand the true impact of environmental peacebuilding efforts. The précis identifies t...
The Mekong River weaves together cultures, sustains biodiversity, and underpins livelihoods; however, competing interests imperil its delicate equilibrium. This précis traces the evolution of environmental peacebuilding in the Mekong River Basin and offers vital recommendations to protect the Mother of Waters.
The Mekong River weaves together cultures, sustains biodiversity, and underpins livelihoods; however, competing interests imperil its delicate equilibrium. This presentation traces the evolution of environmental peacebuilding in the Mekong River Basin and offers vital recommendations to protect the Mother of Waters.
If the world's militaries were a country, they would rank as the fourth-largest global emitter of carbon dioxide. This précis makes the case for greening the military; identifies opportunities in the areas of climate change mitigation but also resource management and conservation and environmental diplomacy; and signals practicable entry points in...
More timber was traded from Borneo in the last two decades of the twentieth century than from the combined Amazon and Congo regions and this précis characterizes the destruction of Borneo's rainforest as self-inflicted violence, encouraged by consumerism. From that optic, the précis showcases the Heart of Borneo Initiative that was launched in 2007...
More timber was traded from Borneo in the last two decades of the twentieth century than from the combined Amazon and Congo regions. This presentation characterizes the destruction of Borneo's rainforest as self-inflicted violence, encouraged by consumerism. From that optic, the presentation showcases the Heart of Borneo Initiative that was launche...
Natural resources play a vital role in our lives but connect to conflict. This précis considers the neo-Malthusian–Cornucopian dichotomy to explore the connections between resources, conflict, and the environmental impacts of war. The précis submits that both the neo-Malthusian and Cornucopian perspectives hold valid insights: by combining their st...
The mind–body problem has been a point of contention in Western philosophy, and a source of tension between Christian theology and science, ever since Plato and Descartes proclaimed a fundamental distinction between the mental and the physical. This précis reviews the materialistic approaches favored by Western philosophers and draws on the Dalai L...
Climate change is a driver of human mobility: it is expected to increase the displacement of populations. This précis casts environmental and socio-economic perspectives on the relocation of Indonesia's capital city from Java to eastern Borneo, the first instance of large-scale, anticipatory, and managed environmental migration in the Anthropocene.
Climate change is a driver of human mobility: it is expected to increase the displacement of populations. This presentation casts environmental and socio-economic perspectives on the relocation of Indonesia's capital city from Java to eastern Borneo, the first instance of large-scale, anticipatory, and managed environmental migration in the Anthrop...
With global impact, climate leadership has emerged as a new and critical area in external relations that reflects the interconnected nature of the climate crisis. Leading in climate action enhances a country's reputation on the world stage and helps it set international norms and expectations. This précis articulates an ambitious climate adaptation...
Ideological differences, economic competition, security concerns, and disputes over human rights have sparked tense standoffs between China and the United States. Driven by geopolitical dynamics, the relationship between China and the United States will continue to evolve; even so, the two countries share outsized responsibility for climate change...
Environmental migrants are people who are compelled to leave their home region or choose to do so, either temporarily or permanently, predominantly because of slow- or rapid-onset changes in their environment that compromise their well-being or livelihood. Climate change is a driver of human mobility that is expected to compound the displacement of...
Referencing and counterpoising Buddhist, Chinese, and Western sources, this précis articulates an understanding of Ryle's (1946, 1949) distinction between the two epistemologies of "knowing that" and "knowing how". Notwithstanding, the précis concludes there is a close relationship between the two truths: to understand reality, one should embrace c...
Climate security rhymes with national security. However, the definition that the United States Congress has given to climate security means that—foremost among governments—the United States has paid significant attention to its military bases and overseas interests. This précis contends that true climate security necessitates a more expansive outlo...
Much as elsewhere, the environment in Africa is shaped by natural events and human activities. That said, the colonization of Africa inflicted profound damage on indigenous societies and the environment and set in train forms of uneven development that persist to this day. With an accent on geography, this précis aims to promote understanding of th...
Leading Organizations of the Future: A New Framework (Serrat, 2023) shows how organizations can configure to requisite order with greater collective intelligence in an increasingly complex world.
This book delves into uncharted territory, offering an extensive exploration of the future of organizations and how they should be led. In a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), traditional organizational paradigms no longer suffice. Instead, this book introduces a visionary framework for the leadership...
This précis underscores the originality of The Epic of Gilgamesh and points out the influence of its heroic themes across narrative works of poetry through the ages, notably with respect to the characters of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. Relatedly, the précis draws particular attention to the richness of the storyline...
Lake Chad is a biological hotspot and a source of food and water for millions of people in Central Africa. Lake Chad has shrunk by more than nine-tenths since the mid-1960s because of water diversion, population growth, and climate change. This précis considers the issues facing Lake Chad and tables a proposal to safeguard it.
Lake Chad is a biological hotspot and a source of food and water for millions of people in Central Africa. Lake Chad has shrunk by more than nine-tenths since the mid-1960s because of water diversion, population growth, and climate change. This presentation considers the issues facing Lake Chad and tables a daring proposal to safeguard it.
Focusing on local climate action, this précis underscores the benefits of a systems approach to the delivery and maintenance of sustainable urban infrastructure. Specifically, the précis identifies and submits to subnational actors (viz., mayors and city managers) five recommendations to promote an energy-housing-mobility framework through local an...
The History of the Peloponnesian War is a landmark of classical scholarship that historians and strategists have studied for about 2,400 years, each of them keen to reveal what Thucydides really meant. This précis argues there are three faces of Thucydides: his own, stylistic warts and all; next, historiographical critiques of the original; and the...
Plato's Tenth Muse was a prolific poetess but only 650 of her lines survive. Recognizing that most poetry from ca. 750–350 BCE was performed—and therefore composed—as sung music, sometimes accompanied by dance, this précis submits that we should beyond interpreting the fragments also speculate on what Sappho's opus might have sounded like.
This presentation underscores the originality of The Epic of Gilgamesh and highlights the influence of its heroic themes on epic poetry through the ages, notably with respect to the character of Achilles in The Iliad by Homer. The presentation draws attention to the richness of the storyline in The Epic of Gilgamesh with respect to Booker's (2004)...
This précis shines a cultural-historical psychology perspective on the anthropomorphism in Hesiod's Theogony. The précis contrasts the Theogony's epic narrative with that in Homer's Iliad and notes Ancient Greek challenges to the conception of gods in human terms.
With special attention to hill torrent management in southern Punjab, Pakistan, this précis recounts how the centralized irrigation schemes that Pakistan inherited from colonialism disturbed a hitherto balanced human and physical geography to ultimately leave the country's poor more vulnerable to critical trends, seasonalities, and shocks. The préc...
This précis notes escalating interest in "deglobalization", a movement that owes to the backlash against globalization. All the same, the précis argues that globalization and deglobalization are work-in-progress and that consideration of the movements need not play one against the either. Considering the challenges the world faces, the précis sugge...
Serrat (2023) theorized a new leadership management framework to help organizations meet challenges and reap opportunities in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st century. This précis brings to light the insights that 12 subject matter experts shared to inform Serrat (2023).
Hybrid organizing that mixes hierarchy, market, and network forms challenges our fixation on 20th century styles of leadership.
The world is undergoing profound systemic change but discussions of leadership still all too commonly call for more supernatural leaders. Organizations are and will remain specialized arrangements for getting things done: but, managing them in the age of turbulence demands that new logics of leadership be found.
This presentation showcases qualitative, exploratory research on Leading Organizations of the Future. The presentation particularizes the problem statement, purpose of the study, research question, conceptual framework, review of the literature, research methodology and design, ethical assurances, pilot testing, population and sample, instrumentati...
Until the late 2000s, it was conventional to frame organizations as ideal types: hierarchy, market, and network. In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st century, however, organizations increasingly engage in triadic forms of organizing so they might match the requirements of a situation. Therefore, the purpose of...
What moves you, makes you.
The 32 poems in this collection are current, relatable, and approachable to those who like to ponder the future, speculate on the possible, pay attention to patterns, recast circumstances as impressions, and learn by thinking through. "Çoruh" is not a river in north-eastern Turkey: it is the name of a plane. "Gregory Whe...
It is often said that good educators are lifelong learners but not that lifelong learners are good educators. This précis suggests that, in the 21st century's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, all should embrace both learning and teaching for personal growth and performance; makes the case for teaching-learning philoso...
Amplified by information and communication technology (ICT), the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of situations challenge organizations to anticipate and reap opportunities. This précis maps out core concepts of agility that organizations can follow to renew themselves and succeed in turbulent environments, signifies principles th...
This précis argues that in the Internet of Things organizations must embrace the digital world if they are to survive and, preferably, thrive. Irrespective of the sector or industry an organization is in, digital transformation enables fundamentally different ways for it to think about clients, audiences, and partners, and to engage with them.Keywo...
Human beings have “managed” information from times immemorial but information and communication technology (ICT) surged from the mid-twentieth century and advances ever faster. Firstly, this précis points out the growing role of information in modern society. Exploring the historical context of technological revolutions but referencing in particula...
Digitalization is reshaping societies, economies, and governments worldwide and the leadership styles of the past no longer apply in organizations that are ever more answerable to algorithms. Leading in the digital age requires more from more leaders. Citing the latest research, this précis showcases emerging leadership behaviors and mindsets. Then...
With increasing impetus from the 1980s, information and communication technology (ICT) has become a powerful driver of change. Past the immediate dynamism that ICT has brought to organizations, this précis considers second-level impacts on economy, society, work, and the very act of organizing. The précis explains that organizations must now learn...
Friedman (1970) inspired waves of financial (and other) deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s, with tumultuous downstream effects. This précis offers quick takes on ethical points made by two related cinematic offerings and looks to the deeper integration of corporate social responsibility in stakeholder capitalism.
Digital Solutions: Reframing Leadership (Serrat, 2023) reflects on the pervasive use of technology in organizations and what it means to lead in the digital age.
This book acts as a valuable quick-access resource on the challenges and opportunities that the digital age presents to organizational leadership. Balanced, comprehensive, and thought-provoking, the book will be useful to professionals and practitioners. The book broadly follows a macro, meso, and micro approach to argumentation and is best read fr...
Organizational transformations are said to have a miserable success rate. This précis chronicles four short takes on theoretical foundations of organizational change; evolutionary and revolutionary change; the Change Formula; and levels of organizational change.
This précis chronicles eight short takes on theories of small groups; key components of teams; trust in teams; facing conflict in teams; working with conflict in teams; team recognition and rewards; principles of virtual teams; and leading teams.
Tacit knowledge is hard to communicate but can be shared in discussions, storytelling, and personal interactions. This presentation points out a wide variety of tools, methods, and approaches that help surface it.
Do you not have the time to read, or do you just think you don't? Introducing "Flash Fiction", a compilation of 22 very short stories or fragments of ordinary—and not so ordinary—lives. Each story encourages you to grow and develop the narrative from where the page leaves it. Where will the characters go next? Where might you take them?
"Boxer Cod...
Digitalization is reshaping societies, economies, and governments worldwide and the leadership styles of the past no longer apply in organizations that are ever more answerable to algorithms. Leading in the Digital Age requires more from more leaders. Citing the latest research, this précis showcases emerging leadership behaviors and mindsets. Then...
This presentation outlines a research proposal for a qualitative dissertation on Leading Organizations of the Future. The major components of the proposal are a detailed statement of the problem to be studied and the context in which it is to be seen, a thorough review of the pertinent literature, and details of the overall design of the study.
A digital revolution is underway. This précis scrutinizes the intensifying role of information and communication technology (ICT) in organizations from economic, organizational, psychological, social, and technical perspectives. First, the précis elucidates first-order, intra-organizational results from past and recent advances in ICT. Second, the...
Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology (Serrat, 2021) gives readers an unusually accessible, critical, and engaging take on what leadership means. In the form of précis—concise statements of essential points—the book combines rounded explanations of theory with article reviews, case studies, development plans, field observations, group wo...
Amplified by information and communication technology (ICT), the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of situations challenge organizations to anticipate and reap opportunities. This précis maps out core concepts of agility that organizations can follow to renew themselves and succeed in turbulent environments, signifies principles th...
This précis demonstrates how one can in written form apply intellectual standards such as clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, and fairness to analyze and evaluate the reasoning behind an article or textbook.
This précis contextualizes Mintzberg’s work to expose the cult of leadership and restore management to the front and center, quickly elucidates Mintzberg’s (2009) Model of Managing, and makes the supporting point that if managing is indeed a practice then wide vistas open in coaching and training for competency-buliding.
This précis suggests that Cameron and Quinn’s (2011) competing values framework and Weisbord’s (1976) Six-Box Model can be leveraged in concert to make organizations more effective.
This précis describes how, from origins in Mintzberg (1989) and Morgan (2006) and in consideration of their assumptions and shortcomings, a personal mental model of organizations—more suited to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of the 21st century—was arrived at.
This précis introduces Blustein (2006) and its new perspective for career development, counseling, and public policy.
This précis uses a critical psychology lens for minority population analysis. Specifically, the précis characterizes indigenous peoples and their vulnerability; researches the treatment of the Aeta, an indigenous people living in the mountainous areas of Luzon in the Philippines; and reflects on their experience of domination, marginalization, and...
A personal mission statement defines who you are: it identifies your purpose, explains why it matters, and describes how you intend to pursue it. This précis reproduces one such statement. Anchored in positive psychology and positive leadership, the précis references Quinn’s (2005) fundamental state of leadership and leverages its four questions fo...
More and more, the literature recognizes that work is influenced by contextual factors: this précis traces the argument, considers of the relative importance of individual, group, and global factors in this researcher’s work experience, and sketches ways of coping with the global contextual factors of work.
Very few leaders are born: most need experience and the earlier one starts, the better. But, if leaders need exposure, they must seek or be presented with a wide variety of work experiences and truly learn from these. This précis discusses how effective leaders learn, distinguishes social and personal contexts of learning, and illustrates theory wi...
Groups that range from two persons to many are a very big part of social life—in all its facets—and most organizations rely on teamwork: the justification is that teams are better at solving problems and learn more rapidly and with more effect than individuals (Serrat, 2009). This précis offers reflections on personal experiences of teamwork, notin...
Ethics, or moral philosophy, investigates concepts of right and wrong conduct; it is not limited to the acts of a single person but seeks also reasoned, principled, positions vis-à-vis the practices of corporations, governments, and many other groups. Using the case method, a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing role-play, this précis explo...
Life-markers are points of inflection: some are shared (e.g., birth, baptism, graduation, our first job); others are yours alone (e.g., a book, a person). Personal life-markers hold one-of-a-kind energy that frames our values and imbues our lives with sense, coherence, and meaning.
This précis offers early reflections on a personal experience of teamwork, noting what had worked as of this writing and drawing attention to important next steps in relation to performing. The précis underscores in particular the utility of team charters, designed expressly to promote a healthy and positive experience, that look to the storming–no...
Human beings have “managed” information from times immemorial but information and communication technology (ICT) surged from the mid-twentieth century and advances ever faster. Firstly, this précis points out the growing role of information in modern society. Exploring the historical context of technological revolutions but referencing in particula...
This précis presents a description, critical analysis, and evaluation of the quality, meaning, and significance of Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences (Seidman, 2013).
The situational leadership theory holds that leaders should change their style based on the competence and commitment of followers. This précis critiques Blanchard, Zigarmi, and Nelson’s (1993) research article on the subject, which offered a 25-year retrospective of the Situational Leadership Model, one of the more widely recognized approaches to...
The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire generates a psychological inventory from propositions that aim to assess leadership styles and leadership outcomes: it is a multi-rater (or 360-degree) instrument, which means that its output—the MLQ 360 Leader’s Report—interprets and compares a leader’s self-assessment with ratings contributed across the sa...
This précis submits a business proposal for idealized design of virtual teaming at General Electric, a multinational conglomerate that retains more than 313,000 employees around the world and so must synergize a dispersed workforce.
This précis outlines the Reflective Judgment model, defines its seven stages, notes the basis for their articulation as a developmental process, flags intrinsic and extrinsic limitations, and ponders a desired relationship between cognitive development, leader development, and organization-wide learning.
This précis argues that leadership and ethics are inherently intertwined: for higher effectiveness, leader development needs to foster moral capacity, efficacy, courage, and resiliency.
The classical view of a manager’s role has been that he/she organizes, coordinates, plans, and controls. In 1973, Mintzberg clarified that on any given day managers are very busy, frequently interrupted, and at pains to control what they do. Revisiting his observations 35 years later, Mintzberg (2009) delineated a Model of Managing that depicts man...
People can hold deeply-held beliefs about why their particular moral choice is best; but, it is always essential to justify why one thinks a decision is right and another is wrong. Considering ethical predicaments from a variety of different perspectives will profit all.
Leaders are in positions of power and their decisions impact others: therefore, it is imperative that their values should have strong ethical foundations and, above all, that these be aligned with external behaviors and actions that advance the common good.
This précis identifies strengths and weaknesses of the idealized design approach and suggests why and how it might be used to better effect.
This précis tables a preliminary statement of a personal philosophy of leadership. The statement is informed by theoretical perspectives on leadership—themselves based on new-wave leadership literature; key leadership influences; cultural identity; trends in the development of post-bureaucratic organizations; and sundry work experiences.
With attention to cultural dynamics, diversity, power, and privilege, this précis investigates the contribution of critical psychology to organizational performance. The précis flags the case of the United Nations system, especially the General Assembly, to identify key challenges in the twenty-first century and consider how it might advance social...
This précis contends that hitherto unnoticed minority populations, subject to an even more systemic and tenuous dynamic of domination, oppression, and privilege, have appeared in the wake of globalization. The précis suggests that critical psychology can advocate justice-focused policy making better across an even larger constituency if it integrat...
Reading research articles does not come naturally. This précis reviews the contribution that critical thinking can make to discerning proof.
Day, Harrison and Halpin (2009) articulated five variables that frame individual differences in leader development (i.e., self-regulatory strength, goal orientation, self-efficacy, self-awareness, and implementation intentions). Referencing environmental factors, this précis locates self-regulation processes and points up the potential contribution...
Deming, Drucker, Maslow, McGregor, Schein, Senge, Taylor, Weber … This précis references influential management theories in the last hundred years: in each instance, the taxonomy flags the historical foundation, highlights basic theory and application, lists principally cited publications, and passes comment on how the theory is viewed today.
This précis outlines the process consulting style and notes three reactions to the exclusive division of alternatives it intuits, the assumptions of the approach, and the concept of client.
Team A was formed in early September 2019 to engage in hearty, learning activities over the period September–December 2019, aiming to suggest tips for managers to implement or empower teams in their organizations. Concluding the short journey synopsized in Serrat (The self in teams [Unpublished manuscript]. The Chicago School of Professional Psycho...
This précis locates critical psychology in the discourse of critical theory. The précis reflects on historical and social events that shaped decolonization, postcolonialism, and globalization and identifies a relationship between them. The précis proposes that critical psychology must now find ways to enrich policy with research if it is to better...
Day, Harrison, and Halpin (2009) specified that leader development focuses on the three domains of expertise and expert performance, identity and self-regulation processes, and adult development; this précis explores the theoretical propositions they submitted toward developing expert leadership.
Leveraging the approach to critical thinking advocated by Paul and Elder (2008), this précis makes a short argument for a research topic on linking doctoral research to practice to contribute new knowledge to the field and help address a real-world issue or opportunity.
This précis records seven short takes on personal leadership development; social identity theory; authentic leadership; relationships with careers; leader development; social barriers; and integrating adult, leader, and leadership development.
This précis chronicles five short notes on the General System Theory; the nature of a system; open and closed systems; leverage points; and the learning organization.
This précis argues that in the Internet of Things organizations must embrace the digital world if they are to survive and, preferably, thrive. Irrespective of the sector or industry an organization is in, digital transformation enables fundamentally different ways for it to think about clients, audiences, and partners, and to engage with them.
This précis revisits an opening statement on a personal philosophy of leadership: that initial statement was informed by theories of leadership; formative experiences of leadership; cultural identity; trends in the development of post-bureaucratic organizations; and sundry work experiences. This revised edition offers reflections on the initial sta...
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The planned relocation of the seat of Indonesia’s government was announced by President Joko Widodo in 2019 and Indonesia's parliament passed a law enabling that in 2022. Home to more than 11 million people, Jakarta sits on swampy land: it has become crowded, polluted, and is sinking at an alarming rate owing to the over-extraction of groundwater. The question is underpinned by subsidiary sub-questions in the following areas:
- How will the infrastructure of Nusantara be developed to accommodate 1.5 million civil servants from Jakarta?
- How will the relocation of Indonesia's capital city to Nusantara be managed to ensure minimal disruption to governmental operations?
- What strategies are being implemented to ensure that Nusantara will be a sustainable and smart city?
- What are the implications of the relocation of Indonesia's capital city for indigenous communities in Nusantara?
- What will happen to the population of Jakarta after Indonesia's capital city has relocated to Nusantara?
- How will the relocation of Indonesia's capital city to Nusantara affect the socio-economic dynamics of Jakarta and the rest of Indonesia?
The sub-questions address a different aspect of Indonesian capital's planned relocation to Nusantara, providing a holistic view of potential impacts and challenges.
Responses to the question and any of the sub-questions are welcome. Suggestions for further reading, especially technical reports and lessons from comparable relocations in other countries, would be appreciated.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that the 193 United Nations Member States adopted on September 25, 2015 looks to reconcile "people, planet, and profit", acting through 17 Sustainable Development Goals and associated targets. Relatedly, on December 12, 2015, the 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed the Paris Agreement to deal with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance.
Cities are responsible for more than 70% of global carbon dioxide emissions and should play a critical role in achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement. SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities & Communities), for example, can act as a guiding theme to synergize progress toward SDG 6 (Clean Water & Sanitation), SDG 7 (Affordable & Clean Energy), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). Cities have also been tasked with delivering the bulk of the nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement that each country committed to.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized developing region on the planet, with more than 80% of the population living in cities. What approaches to localizing climate action (e.g., systems approaches to delivery and maintenance of infrastructure, multilevel governance arrangements, pilot programs) might Latin American and Caribbean cities share with the world?
