License
The URBAL approach is licensed under the creative commons CC-BY-NC-SA license. The attributes of these licenses are as follows:
BY: All Creative Commons licenses (other than public domain dedications) require attribution. This means that all licenses begin with the BY modifier.
NC: Stands for non-commercial. A licence with an NC modifier can not be used for a commercial purpose, such as being sold or used in an advertisement, without the authors authorization
ND: Stands for no derivatives. A Creative Commons with an ND modifier bars the creation of derivative works based upon the original, such as rewriting a work or translating it.
SA: Stands for share alike. Licenses that allow derivatives, meaning they lack the ND modifier, can require that derivative creations “share alike” or license their new creations under the same terms.
+ Note for consultants or companies willing to sell URBAL as a service :
Selling URBAL as a product is not allowed. Selling URBAL as a service is allowed, providing that you :
– Explicitly refer to the URBAL guide and original content
– Explicitly cite and name the URBAL method to your clients/users
– Explicitly commit to comply to the URBAL user’ ethical values
Ethical conditions of use
To claim to have used the URBAL approach, you must strive to meet ethical principles.
Ethical commitment | Targeted ethical principle | What for? |
Make your results publicly available | Cooperation | Sharing to help scale up/deep/out towards more sustainable food systems |
Involve a variety of stakeholders in the initiative, preferably within a participatory workshop | Collective intelligence, food democracy | Gathering a diversity of point of view to have a better view |
Involve stakeholders that are potentially critical of the initiative (constructive and non-destructive criticism) | Food democracy, adversarial debate, pluralism | Evaluating for the prosecution and the defence |
Strive to encourage the participation of actors who do not have easy access to the floor (dominated categories) | Food democracy, pluralism, equity | Gathering a diversity of point of view to have a better view |
Strive to address the diversity of dimensions of food system sustainability | Intellectual integrity, scientific accuracy | Producing a global view of sustainability impacts and a clear understanding of the contradictions and trade-offs between the dimensions of sustainability |
Strive to address a diversity of the activities of the initiative under consideration | Intellectual integrity, scientific accuracy | Producing a global view of sustainability impacts and a clear understanding of the contradictions and trade-offs between the dimensions of sustainability |
To certify your use of URBAL, you must declare that you have made every effort to comply with these ethical commitments, list elements that demonstrate your compliance with these commitments, and make this declaration public to the URBAL user community.
