by kultur.work | May 20, 2016
“The developing interdisciplinary field of valuing nature for natural resource management is often set within wider commitments to strengthen and deepen stakeholder and public engagement in decision making. In principle, participatory approaches offer a socially...
by kultur.work | Apr 29, 2016
A major new dialogue on The Nature of Prosperity opens with a public event on May 23rd at Central Hall, Westminster. The event also marks the launch of the ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and features Dr Rowan Williams, former...
by kultur.work | Apr 11, 2016 | News and Comment
Many of the key drivers of climate change also cause poor health through air pollution, high saturated fat intake and physical inactivity, argues the recently launched Health Alliance on Climate Change. Responding to climate change, says the group of major health...
by John Lotherington | Apr 6, 2016
John Lotherington reflects on the ongoing debate about the impact of the community-led flood defences in Pickering after the town was spared the flooding that hit large parts of northern England in late-2015. . . . As significant parts of northern England went under...
by kultur.work | Mar 26, 2016 | News and Comment
A recently published report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in collaboration with The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF UK, considers the potential consequences a #Brexit could have on environmental policy in the UK. The research focuses on two...
by kultur.work | Mar 24, 2016
The event on 11 April, hosted by the ESRC’s The UK in a Changing Europe (UKiCE) Initiative, will have leading practitioners debate the findings of a landmark independent report on the implications of a Brexit for the UK’s environment. “The EU has had a profound...
by kultur.work | Mar 24, 2016
On 19th April 2016, the newly formed APPG on Limits to Growth will hold its inaugural event Limits to Growth or Opportunities for Prosperity? The current Co-Chair of the Club of Rome, Anders Wijkman, is confirmed as the keynote speaker for this evening. The event will...
by kultur.work | Mar 16, 2016
The registration for the inaugural UKSSD Conference: towards a sustainable UK is now open. The new forum sets out to “be the catalyst for domestic action to set the UK on the path to sustainability, gathering 100 politicians, chief executives, practitioners, and...
by Graham Smith | Mar 6, 2016 | News and Comment
The floods that hit wide areas of the UK at the end of last year were devastating for many communities. In many places local crisis management was found wanting. But in Leeds, the spontaneously self-organised volunteering infrastructures were exemplary in their...
by Nick Aveling | Jan 26, 2016 | News and Comment
János Zlinksy, one of our longest serving Trustees and an advisor to the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, reflects on the relationship between the Paris COP and the Sustainable Development Goals Interview by Nick Aveling There’s been a lot of...
by kultur.work | Jan 26, 2016
Join GlobalNet21 in this online meetup to discuss the state of UK democracy with Scientist Derek Bates, economist Vicky Pryce and Matthew Taylor, CEO of the RSA. When: Thursday, February 18, 2016 7:00 PM “The peoples’ role in how we are governed consists...
by Simon Burall | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Simon Burall is the Director of Involve, a think tank and charity specialising in public participation. Their mission is to inspire, innovate and embed effective citizen engagement, to enable members of the public to take and influence the decisions that affect their...
by kultur.work | Dec 18, 2015 | News and Comment
“Habemus consensus!” a Huffington Post article reads, summarising the sanguine diplomatic outcome of the COP21 conference in Paris. It might not be as binding as hoped by the hundreds of thousands of people engaging in the climate march; it does, however, signify a...
by kultur.work | Dec 10, 2015 | News and Comment
On 29 November 2015, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history. 785.000 citizens participated in 2,300 events in 175 countries and thousands of cities to march for a clean energy future, aiming...
by kultur.work | Nov 24, 2015 | News and Comment
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...
by kultur.work | Nov 20, 2015 | News and Comment
The Environmental Audit Committee, a Select Committee in the UK Parliament, has published the transcript 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...
by kultur.work | Nov 16, 2015 | News and Comment
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...
by kultur.work | Nov 4, 2015 | News and Comment
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...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 21, 2015 | News and Comment
The UK Government hasn’t yet involved the public or any other stakeholder in discussions about the relevance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for domestic application in the UK. According to BOND’s report on Bringing the Goals Home: Implementing the SDGs in...
by kultur.work | Oct 19, 2015 | News and Comment
Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, which focus primarily on social development priorities in low-income countries, the Sustainable Development Goals are intended to apply to developing and developed countries alike. In her Green House essay What do the...
