Monthly Archives: November 2015

JRF evidence review on community resilience to climate change

Date: November 24th, 2015

The concept of community resilience to climate change in the UK is multifaceted and comes with a wide range of associated activities. In order to build the evidence base and help support the development of community resilience to climate change, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a review of evidence and practice to explore this varied and contested field. Community...

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Summary and footage: EAC conference on the Government’s approach to sustainable development, 10 November 2015

Date: November 20th, 2015

The Environmental Audit Committee, a Select Committee in the UK Parliament, has published the transcript and video of its first conference, held on 10th November 2015, on the Government’s Approach to Sustainable Development. Following the EAC’s public inquiry from July 2015, to which the FDSD has submitted a response, a panel from various sectors and...

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How the UK is really doing: NEF’s five headline indicators of national success

Date: November 16th, 2015

With their latest report “Five headline indicators of national success – a clearer picture of how the UK is performing”, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has launched a campaign to end “short-term obsession with narrow economic measures and … flawed conception(s) of national success” in UK policy-making processes. With their five new indicators they propose...

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Sophie Howe appointed first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Date: November 4th, 2015

Following the adoption of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act in April 2015, the Welsh Government has appointed its first Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe, currently Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales. “Public bodies in Wales have been put on warning”, WalesOnline reports, “…if they think their duties under the Well-being of...

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