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SDRN Annual Conference 2010
This year’s SDRN Annual Conference will take place on 9th December 2010 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London. The Annual Conference is SDRN’s flagship event, bringing together over 150 sustainability practitioners, policy-makers and researchers and to share and discuss recent findings, and to review how research efforts can better contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals. Further information about conference themes and speakers will be provided shortly, but in the meantime do put the date in your diaries!
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Calls
‘Children and nature: Measuring success?’ – Call for Papers
21st October 2010: Natural England, London.
In the UK there has been a disconnection between significant sections of society and their environment, which raises questions of how people engage with their environment and what type of individuals engage? What are the patterns of use and engagement with nature from intensive to infrequent engagement? Questions of access and accessibility, entitlement, environmental and social justice need to be investigated, to ensure there are equal opportunities for benefit for all. This one-day seminar, to be held from 10am until 6pm on 21st October, will focus on the interactions between children and nature in Britain, exploring the role of Britain's natural environment in children's health, education, and wellbeing. In particular, it will consider how to ensure success in engaging with children, what evidence is seen as useful, and what methods are used to measure success. Papers are invited detailing emerging research on the following topics: education; at risk groups; social and environmental justice; modes of engagement with nature; and assessing impact. Throughout, the issue of risk will be addressed: How does society weigh up the risks and benefits of experiences in the natural environment? What is the role of risk assurance organisations? Do we need to enable individuals to assess risk for themselves? To register for the event, please e-mail Frances Harris. If you wish to present, please include a title and short abstract (100-200 words) of your proposed contribution by September 15th 2010.
‘Energy efficiency first: The foundation of a low carbon society’ – Call for Papers
Papers are invited for the eceee 2011 summer school, taking place from 6th to 11th June 2011, at Belambra Presqu’ile de Giens, France. Climate and energy security are top of the agenda of policy-makers around the world. Energy efficiency has received attention like no time before, yet many policy-makers fail to appreciate its full importance. While improving energy efficiency addresses many of the current energy-related challenges, it is not enough. We must reduce our overall energy demand, and we must better understand how we use energy and how we can change the ways we use energy on a national, regional and global scale. Abstracts for refereed papers should relate to any of the following eight panels: (1) foundations of future energy policy – cutting the Gordian knot; (2) current energy efficiency policies – on stage and backstage; (3) energy use in industry – the road from policy to action; (4) transport and mobility – how to deliver energy efficiency; (5) saving energy in buildings – the time to act is now; (6) innovations in buildings and appliances; (7) monitoring and evaluation; and, (8) dynamics of consumption. Abstracts should be submitted by 30th September 2010. All abstracts must be uploaded using the online submission system. More…
‘Understanding the links between poverty and ethnicity’ – Call for Expert Distillation Papers
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is developing a new programme focusing on poverty and ethnicity, to be launched in 2011. As part of an extensive scoping process for the programme, six expert distillation papers are being commissioned to discuss various aspects of the relationship between poverty and ethnicity. The papers will help to generate and shape ideas for the new programme. The papers will summarise the conclusions that can be drawn from the current evidence base and suggest ideas and key questions that could push forward our understanding and lead to solutions. They will focus on the following topics: unpaid caring; social networks; employer attitudes and behaviour; returns to education, the role of location; and, inequality within groups. The deadline for the receipt of proposals is 6th August 2010. More…
‘Resilience 2011’ – Call for Papers
Papers are invited for ‘Resilience 2011’, a conference that will bring together scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the major science and policy challenges that face us all as a result of global change. Papers should relate to one or more of the following themes: adaptation, resilience, vulnerability, and coping with change in social-ecological systems; thresholds and regime shifts in social-ecological systems; knowledge, innovation, and social-ecological learning; governance, policycentricity, markets and multi-level challenges; analysing and framing resilient development, resilient resources and security; and transformation in social-ecological systems. Abstracts should be received by 1st August 2010. More…
‘Theorising climate governance: a one-day workshop for UK-based PhD students’ – Call for Papers
How can we make sense of the world of climate governance? Multi-levelled, multi-sited, involving a plurality of public and private actors in a range of governance roles, the world of climate change politics is increasingly complex. What challenges does this pose for multi and inter-disciplinary understandings of climate governance? How adequate are existing theoretical tools and approaches to capturing contemporary landscapes of climate governance? This one-day workshop, taking place at Durham University on 29th September 2010, will bring together doctoral students working on different aspects of climate governance from a range of social science disciplines to encourage debate and reflection on the value and limitations of different theoretical approaches to the question of climate governance. Papers are welcomed from different theoretical perspectives that examine different aspects of climate governance, but especially those that focus on the following themes: the 'global' governance of climate change; the governance of carbon markets; climate governance in cities; energy governance as it relates to climate change; the scalar politics of climate governance; and, issues of justice and equity in climate governance. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to Jon Phillips by Friday 6th August.
‘Discipline Hopping: Engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences’ – Call for Proposals
This Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme (C-DIP) aims to enable UK engineers and physical scientists to be world-leading in research and training at existing and emerging cross-disciplinary interfaces. C-DIP recognises the importance of understanding respective disciplines and allowing researchers the time and space to explore new ideas when collaborating across disciplines. C-DIP therefore wishes to support Discipline Hopping grants between the engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences interfaces. The key aims of the Call are to: provide researchers with the time necessary to immerse themselves in a new discipline and develop new ideas, skills and collaborations across the interfaces; and to create a cohort of cross-disciplinary researchers who are advocates for the engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences interfaces. The scheme is designed to encourage researchers to develop imaginative ways of using techniques or expertise from the engineering and physical sciences to tackle economic and social research questions. It provides contact time between engineers, physical scientists and economic and social scientists by awarding them funds to effectively ‘buy out’ their own time and allow them to immerse themselves in a new discipline. The remit of the scheme is deliberately very broad and the emphasis is on the hopping activity itself. More…
Best Foot Forward Project – Call for Competition Entrants
With support from The Waterloo Foundation, Forum for the Future is launching the Best Food Forward Project to promote more sustainable food procurement in Wales. The project will help Welsh public sector organisations unlock opportunities to purchase more sustainable food by finding practical answers to some of the challenges they face. It will work collaboratively for up to a year with project teams from three organisations to implement initiatives that can make a difference on the ground and can be copied elsewhere, in Wales and beyond. It is launching a competition to find individuals working in the Welsh public sector who see an opportunity to encourage more sustainable food procurement or who see a problem that's getting in the way - and want to act on it. Competition winners will receive a funded support package worth £17,500 that offers time and expert help to find a solution and make that idea a reality. Project teams will use Forum for the Future's i-team innovation process which will take them through cutting-edge innovation techniques employed by global companies like Apple, BASF and Johnson & Johnson to generate ideas for new products and services. The deadline for entries is 5pm on 8th August 2010. More…
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Research
The CHARM Approach
CHARM, funded by the RCUK Digital Economy Programme, employs digital technologies as a means of providing individuals with feedback about their own and others' sustainability behaviours. The CHARM approach integrates practice theory from sociology, the social norm approach from social psychology, and digital technologies to investigate novel routes to sustainable behaviour change. Social psychology research shows that our everyday activities are influenced by what we believe to be 'normal' behaviour. With this in mind, the social norm approach attempts to change behaviour in socially desirable ways by telling people what other people do. The CHARM approach is distinctive because it employs digital technologies - including mobile phones, the internet, energy monitors, pedometers, GPS and social networking applications - to provide sophisticated social norm feedback to participants. In addition, in CHARM the quantitative data and questionnaires that are typical of the social norm approach will be complemented by ethnographic interviews and focus groups that will facilitate in-depth understanding of the sociotechnical contexts and practices that underlie sustainable and unsustainable behaviours. This novel approach will be applied in three case studies: 1) energy, 2) active lifestyle and 3) Facebook. More…
Self interest motives for sustainable consumption
Findings have recently been published of a study that examined the perceptions and preferences of identified “responsible, sustainable consumers” with respect to functional products. The study was part of a larger research program that is looking at material cultures and product design in relation to sustainable production and consumption. Based on empirical data gathered from citizens attempting to follow sustainable lifestyles, the researchers have reflected on how the adoption of sustainable consumption patterns can not only be motivated by altruistic and environmental considerations, but also, significantly, by perceived personal benefits, including an expected increase in personal well-being. These motivations, together with how they unfold into preferences for particular product characteristics, are discussed. The research concludes that the understanding of such motives, along with their implications for the ways in which products and services are conceived and positioned, may warrant further research as it can represent a key incentive for change towards a more sustainable future. More…
The value of turning lights off
Switching off lights, turning the television off at the mains and using cooler washing cycles could have a much bigger impact on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power stations than previously thought, according to the findings of a study by Imperial College London. The study shows that the figure used by government advisors to estimate the amount of carbon dioxide saved by reducing people's electricity consumption is up to 60 percent too low. Dr Adam Hawkes, the author of the study, says the government should keep track of changing carbon emission rates from power stations to ensure that policy decisions for reducing emissions are based on robust scientific evidence. The new study suggests that excluding power stations with low carbon emission rates, such as wind and nuclear power stations, and focussing on those that deal with fluctuating demand would give a more accurate emission figure. Hawkes says ‘this means any reduction we make in our electricity use - for example, if everyone switched off lights that they weren't using, or turned off electric heating earlier in the year - could have a bigger impact on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by power stations than previously thought. However, this also acts in reverse: a small increase in the amount of electricity we use could mean a larger increase in emissions than we previously thought, so we need to make sure we do everything we can to reduce our electricity use’. More…
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Events
Forum Event – ‘Environmental Efficiency: Towards a Low Carbon Economy’
9th November 2010: Central London.
The UK has committed to reduce its emissions by 80% by 2050, but the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is concerned that these targets will not be met. It is essential that communities, businesses and the workforce are equipped with the capabilities and skills to take advantage of the potential benefits of a low carbon economy. A Green Investment Bank has been advocated in order to support investment in low carbon projects to transform the economy and to encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefit from the power produced. With these prominent issues in mind, this forum will offer stakeholders the opportunity to discuss and examine policies, strategies and concrete initiatives both to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. In addition, the forum will also offer stakeholders the chance to explore how relevant parties can work together to fulfill the government’s ambition for a low carbon and eco-friendly economy. More…
Training Event – ‘IMPACT Health Impact Assessment Course’
22nd – 26th November 2010: Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool.
The International Health Impact Assessment Consortium, a World Health Organisation collaborating centre, have announced the dates of the next Health Impact Assessment training course, which will highlight how to undertake and integrate HIA in policy planning. IMPACT works with a range of partners including the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, Health Ministries, Regional Development Agencies, Primary Care Trusts, Local Authorities and private developers. Please email /a> for further information. More…
Training Event – ‘Good Practice Stakeholder Participation…. With a focus on the environment’
18th – 21st October 2010: Wye, Ashford, Kent.
This three-day course, organised by Dialogue Matters, will enable participants to: explore the benefits and challenges of involving stakeholders in decisions about the natural environment; understand the principles and concepts of stakeholder participation; and, learn practical facilitation skills and how to design a participation process. To-date, Dialogue Matters has trained over 700 environmental professionals and academics in a variety of courses here and abroad, with the training rooted in their experience of designing and facilitating environmental dialogue in the UK, the Middle East and Africa. More…
Workshop – ‘Research with CSOs for sustainable development: Reflecting on experience’
29th September 2010: The Open University, London.
This workshop, organised by the project ‘Co-Operative Research on Environmental Problems in Europe’ (CREPE), seeks to: compare participants’ experiences of doing research with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) relevant to sustainable development; evaluate strengths and weaknesses of those experiences, as a basis to draw lessons for future efforts; clarify how such research benefits research and the wider society; bring together material for publication in a special journal issue; and, analyse how such research helps to open up issues of sustainable development to civil society perspectives. Key questions for discussion include: How do researchers and non-researchers cooperate in research activities relevant to sustainable development? How does such research relate to policy frameworks of sustainable development? How do they work together to produce new knowledge, to develop new understandings and learn from one another? What inquiry processes are involved? How does such research relate to policy issues? What lessons may be learned for future efforts? What areas require further research? Please email to register for the event. In addition, some places may be available for people wishing to present papers. If you are interested please send a short (approx 300 words) abstract speaking to the above themes by 9th August 2010.
Forum Event – ‘Tackling social exclusion: The way forward’
29th September 2010: Central London.
Poor health, disability, family breakdown, poverty and unemployment are just a few of the reasons as to why people become socially excluded from society. In addition, 10 million adults in the UK have never used the internet. Of that number, 38% are unemployed and 19% are in families with children. Professor Paul Watson, Director of ‘Social Inclusion Through the Digital Economy’ Research Hub at Newcastle University, will be speaking at this forum on 'Social Inclusion Through the Digital Economy'. Topics to be covered include: Social Inclusion Through the Digital Economy Research Hub; RCUK Digital Economy Programme; addressing digital exclusion through the application of ICT; ensuring technology is accessible; encouraging people to become engaged with technology; and, next steps for information and knowledge management. This event seeks to provide a valuable opportunity to debate and discuss how best the Coalition Government and the rest of society can ensure that the socially excluded are put at the heart of the recovery. More…
Training Event – ‘IAP2 Certificate Programme in Public Participation’
Multiple dates from October onwards: London, Bristol and Manchester.
Essential Planning Ltd is now running IAP2 training in public participation at several different locations throughout the UK. The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Certificate in Public Participation is a modular professional development programme, devised by and in consultation with practitioners around the world. The training is invaluable for anyone interested in acquiring the skills, techniques and confidence to design and manage the most effective public involvement programme, including community groups and individuals. IAP2 trainers bring a broad base of experience at all levels from national and international policies to local neighbourhood issues and on projects in a range of sectors including health care, education, transport, urban development and regeneration, environmental assessment and planning, waste and minerals, recreational planning, energy and other major infrastructure. More information is available online or by emailing Tanya Burdett.
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Online
Green Gauge Survey Results
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recently published the first results of its Green Gauge Survey, which was carried out by the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) at Oxford Brookes University. The survey is the first of three annual global surveys conducted for RICS by OISD to determine how RICS members are engaging with the sustainability agenda and follows the RICS 'Green Profession' research of 2007, also carried out by OISD. The key aims of the RICS Green Gauge survey are to: assess the extent to which the surveying profession is continuing to engage with the sustainability agenda, by examining key measures such as the response to client demand for sustainability-based services and the frequency of use of sustainability information, tools and techniques; track and monitor attitudes towards the sustainability agenda over time, and examine changes in attitudes by Professional Group and by Global Region; and, identify and prioritise policy actions for RICS to monitor and improve the level of service it provides to its members in relation to the use of such information, tools and techniques. More…
DECC Microgeneration Strategy Consultation
The Government has recently announced a consultation on a new Microgeneration Strategy, which will look forward to 2020 and cover England only. Views are being sought on four key policy areas that can help decarbonise the way we heat our homes and businesses, reducing the UK’s CO2 emissions and contributing to the target of sourcing 20% of all EU energy from renewables by 2020. These include: (1) Quality - ensure consumers have confidence that equipment and installation is reliable and adheres to the highest standards; (2) Technology - examine how to improve products through more trialling of technologies new to the UK; (3) Skills - develop the microgeneration supply chain to ensure it is properly equipped with the right people to meet the expected rise in demand, as well as creating and sustaining jobs in the UK; and (4) Advice - provide more accessible advice and information about Microgeneration to homeowners, communities and small businesses. The Strategy will cover heat technologies up to 300 kW and up to 50kW for electricity. Responses are invited until 22nd December 2010. More…
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New Publications
RSA Report – ‘Steer: Mastering our behaviour through instinct, environment and reason’
People could make better decisions and tackle unwanted habits like binge-drinking, smoking and over-eating by understanding the way their brains, behaviours and environments interact, according to a new report published by the RSA. This report represents the second stage of the RSA’s Social Brain project. It argues that helping people learn how they make judgements and form habits – or rather ‘thinking about thinking’ – could be a more effective and empowering way to encourage positive behavioural change than relying exclusively on either passive ‘nudging’ at one extreme, or purely rational ‘debate’ at the other. Drawing on a range of research from several disciplines, this report argues that this model of mindful, self-directed, and holistic behavioural change has been overlooked in much of the recent policy debates on the subject. It enables people to appraise situations, and make judgements about when they should trust, or be wary of, their gut instincts, rational judgements, or environmental influences. More…
New Book – ‘Governing Sustainable Development: Partnerships, protests and power at the World Summit’
Multilateral UN summits from Stockholm to Copenhagen have set the pace and direction for the global governance of sustainable development. The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was a key moment in the evolution of sustainable development as a discourse and summitry as a technology of government. It was also a significant event in terms of South African domestic politics, witnessing some of the largest protests since the end of Apartheid. In this book, Carl Death draws on Foucauldian governmentality literature to argue that the Johannesburg Summit was a key site for the refashioning of sustainable development as advanced liberal government; for the emergence of an exemplary logic of rule; and for the mutually interdependent relationship between ‘mega-events’ (summits, world cups, Olympic games) and ‘mega-protests’ understood as Foucauldian counter-conducts. Analysing detailed and original research on the WSSD, Death argues that summits work to make politically sustainable a global order which is manifestly unsustainable. Paradoxically however, they also provide opportunities for the status quo to be protested and resisted. More…
New Book – ‘Obesogenic Environments’
In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. The ‘Obesogenic Environment’ describes all the possible influences that our environment presents which encourage excess weight and obesity in individuals and populations. Beginning with an overarching introduction to obesity and its implications for health and wellbeing, the book will move on to consider such crucial areas as eating behaviours and food environments, physical activity and the environment, the urban environment, methods, policy and future research directions. More…
New Publication – ‘Listen, participate, transform’
The Young Foundation has recently published this think piece, which seeks to provide local authorities with a simple, practical framework on which to base their social media activity. Impending budget cuts mean that local government will need to change the way it works, largely moving away from a model of delivering services to and for people, to a model of delivering services with people. Public servants will be required to build new relationships with citizens; relationships to help support civil society in responding to inevitable challenges. As a consequence, local and central government needs to find better ways to forge new partnerships, involving citizens and the state working together to generate new ideas, tap into latent community capacity and make better use of local assets. These challenges come at a time when social media has become part of everyday life for millions of people. However, at this point social media is largely uncharted territory for many councils and public agencies. The fear of getting it wrong stifles many individuals and agencies from taking the first steps towards using social media to engage people as residents, services users, community groups and active citizens. The framework presented in this paper allows councils to approach social media with less trepidation. It encourages authorities to start by listening and analysing social media activity. Councils should then participate in conversations with five actions: to create dialogue with citizens, to energise citizens around a particular theme or event, to support communities to help each other, to involve people in decisions, and to measure social media activity. More…
New Book – ‘Young children and the environment: early education for sustainability’
This textbook focuses on education for sustainability aimed directly at early childhood teacher education. It brings together leaders and experienced practitioners in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS), as well as chapter authors with expertise in health promotion, systems change, cultural studies and digital technologies education. Reflecting its interdisciplinary construction, the book draws on ideas and research across a range of disciplines and perspectives investigating the why and how of ECEfS, aimed at beginning a conversation about what education for sustainability might look like in early childhood education contexts. The driving theoretical underpinning is that even very young children – in childcare settings, kindergartens, preschools and the first years of school - are capable and competent participants in making and shaping their worlds, both now and into the future. From this starting point, the book presents ideas, perspectives, pedagogies and case studies that promote the central role of early childhood teachers in enabling young children to act as environmental agents of change. More…
New Report – ‘TEEB for Business’
Modern society’s predominant focus on market-delivered components of well-being, and our almost total dependence on market prices to indicate value, means that we generally do not measure or manage economic values exchanged other than through markets. This is especially true of the public goods and services that comprise a large part of the benefits that nature provides humanity. Society also generally ignores third-party effects of private exchanges (so-called ‘externalities’) unless they are actually declared illegal. TEEB has assembled much evidence that the economic invisibility of nature’s flows into the economy is a significant contributor to the degradation of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity. This in turn leads to serious human and economic costs which are being felt now, have been felt for much of the last half century, and will be felt at an accelerating pace if we continue ‘business as usual’. This report highlights that there are both serious risks to business, as well as significant opportunities, associated with biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and argues for business to quantify and value its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, in order to manage these risks and opportunities and enable a better future for all. More…
New Report – ‘Developing the Sustainable School: thinking the issues through’
This report, produced by Prof. William Scott of the University of Bath, explores the idea of the sustainable school in terms of a contribution to sustainable development, and uses Daly and Meadows’ capitals theory to do this. It builds on previous work about the stages that a sustainable school might go through in its development, and on several research studies over the past 10 years. What emerges are three sets of descriptors that might help a school’s thinking about what to do as it works towards a greater contribution towards sustainability. It highlights that effective school leadership can facilitate the evolution of carbon reduction and biodiversity enhancement strategies, curriculum reorientation and effective student learning, and a rethinking and enhancement of the school’s contribution to social capital. Yet, unless school leaders understand the issues, and are at the forefront of change, little of real substance will be possible. More…
New Book – ‘Changing Contexts in Urban Regeneration’
This book argues that urban renewal plans need to respond to new conditions and requirements, caused by changes in the population and in social structure; in this way, urban renewal becomes a sustainable endeavour. The book illustrates that urban renewal should take an integrated approach to the physical, environmental, social and economic programmes, based on fundamental solutions that stand the test of time. It seeks to present a comprehensive overview of relevant theory, including the socio-spatial characteristics of neighbourhoods and cities; the place of individuals and households in the economic system; and the design form of the housing stock in relation to its usability, valuation, and adaptability. The author demonstrates his arguments through evaluating a major urban renewal plan that has been tested for over 30 years, and connects the academic theory and debate with professional practice. More… ().
ippr Report – ‘Regeneration through cooperation: creating a framework for communities to act together’
Rolling back the state and expecting communities to leap into the driving seat will not succeed without a new cooperative framework of rights and responsibilities, says a new paper from the ippr, published by Co-operatives UK. The authors of the report are pleased that 'bottom-up and community-led activities which bubble along under the radar are receiving new public recognition', but caution that if the Big Society is to emerge successfully, not only community but state services too need to develop a culture of cooperation, and that a framework of community development and business support is critical for community-led regeneration to be effective. The launch of the ippr report follows the UK’s first ever Co-operatives Fortnight, which took place from 19th June to 3rd July, with tens of thousands of people across the UK celebrating the cooperative alternative. More… ().
WRI Report – ‘A seat at the table: including the poor in decisions for development and environment’
Decisions that have significant environmental and social consequences are often made without the involvement of those whose interests are directly at stake. For poor people whose lives and livelihoods often depend on natural resources, and who are therefore most vulnerable to environmental risks, the consequences of exclusion can be especially severe. Weak access to decision-making may expose poor communities to high levels of pollution, remove them from productive land, and deprive them of the everyday benefits provided by natural resources. The three pillars of sound decision-making for the environment that are key to responding to the challenge of providing “access” are: access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Many countries, regardless of their level of economic development, have promoted these pillars as policy aspirations or as enforceable legal rights. Yet even where progress has been significant, more work is needed if such laws are to be implemented in a way that is meaningful to all citizens, especially the poor. This report draws on a series of case studies to better understand the obstacles to access facing the poor, and the efforts by governments to reach this population. These cover a range of environmental concerns including water quality, land use, data availability, and the use or absence of environmental impact assessments (EIAs). The case studies also provide examples where civil society organizations, community groups, and - most importantly - governments have taken steps to overcome these barriers. More…
Futerra Report – ‘Branding Biodiversity’
This report presents the findings of efforts made to explore what drives people to conserve nature, and to critically evaluate today’s biodiversity messages to see whether they align with the emotions of the people they are aimed at. These findings have been combined with the principles of branding to distil a complex scientific concept into a set of values and promises that appeal to the masses. It seeks to challenge communicators to stop talking about extinction since messages of loss are not motivators for change, and divides biodiversity messages into four categories: loss, love, need and action. It suggests that messages of love that inspire ‘awe, fascination and wonder for the natural world’ are a more effective motivator, and that these become all the more powerful when combined with ‘need’ and ‘action’ messages. More…
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Jobs and Training
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