Human Factors Contributions to Global Sustainability
The Human Factors/Ergonomics (HFE) profession needs to respond like any other profession to the challenges of global sustainability. To plan our response, we need to understand sustainability so that we can match the global task demands to our HFE capabilities. Much of the current technical study of sustainability comes from outside our profession, dating back to its origins in the Club of Rome report of 1972. Recent concepts directly applicable come from economists (including behavioral economists), business schools, social ecologists and even journalists. These include concepts of environmental overshoot, choice architecture, Triple Bottom Line Accounting and the tragedy of the commons as an overall model. Each has HFE issues concerning how governments, enterprises and individuals make decisions, how to present alternatives so as to emphasize reality, and rapid feedback of sustainability information to allow control. Specific HFE steps at the levels of the enterprise, consumer choice and personal responsibility are presented.
Colin G. Drury
Distinguished Professor Emeritus University at Buffalo: SUNY Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering 438 Bell Hall Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
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2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）