SuScit Mailing - March
2008.
CONTENTS:
1-SuScit Project update:
a- Narratives and Perceptions
of Local Sustainability.
b- SuScit
project and Mildmay Community Partnership.
2-Research:
a- Policy Studies Institute:
Environment Group Research projects.
b- Academy for Sustainable Communities:
Sector Skills Research.
3-Publication:
a- The EU Sustainable Development
Strategy: ‘A Sustainable Future in Our Hands’.
b- Book: The Endless City. Authors:
Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic.
c- Book: DIY Community Action-Neighbourhood
problems and community self-help.
4-Events:
a- British Museum Documentary Premiere:
LOHAKHOR Iron eaters.
b- Ecores Forum: Environmental Justice
E-conference.
c-
d- Federation for Community Development
Learning: Annual Conference.
e- ISSUES 2 ISSUES: ‘From the
Laboratory to Action: Science and Policy-makers’.
5-Policy:
a- Home Office: Crime Strategy Guide.
6-News:
a- Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency Partnership (REEEP):£2.5 million for renewable energy partnership.
b-
c- The Guardian: Government Figures
Hide Scale of CO2 Emissions, Says Report.
7-Funding:
a- The Big Lottery-Young People’s Fund
2: National Grants.
8-Training and Jobs:
a- Capacity Global, The Foundation for
International Environmental Law and Development(FIELD)
and Ruskin College-Oxford: Exploring Environmental Justice Residential Course.
b- Job vacancy: Chair of London Sustainable
Development Commission.
1-SuScit Project update:
a-Narratives and
Perceptions of Local Sustainability.
Throughout the month
of March the SuScit Action Research participants have launched a series of
initial discussions of urban sustainability to explore differences and
similarities in the perceptions amongst researchers; sustainability
practitioners; and local residents. Through workshops and creative filmmaking,
the residents’ panels, the researchers and practitioners groups reflected upon the
connections between the urban environment, the local community, and our quality
of life preparing to meet up soon and exchange their knowledge and experience.
b-SuScit project and
Mildmay Community Partnership.
The SuScit project
team will be represented by its Principal Investigator Professor
2-Research:
a- Policy Studies Institute:
Environment Group Research projects.
The PSI Environment
Group’s interdisciplinary approach to the environment takes into consideration
the links, at every level between the environment, the economy and general
society. Several of its projects are carried out in collaboration with others
so that a range of perspectives can be taken for different cases. The research
of the Environment Group is located within, and seeks to contribute to the
development of, thinking about sustainable development and the challenges it
presents.
Click here to know
more about one of the currents projects of the PSI Environment group: Sectoral
Costs in Environmental Policy http://www.psi.org.uk/research/project.asp?project_id=162
b-Academy for
Sustainable Communities: Sector Skills Research.
ASC is part of a
major Government programme to tackle the skills issues facing the sustainable
communities sector.
A study commissioned
by the ASC to assess gaps in the supply and demand of skills in the sector,
showed through both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, that ‘
To find more about
the research results, visit: http://www.ascskills.org.uk/pages/research/sector_skills
3-Publication:
a-The EU Sustainable Development Strategy:
‘A Sustainable Future in Our Hands’.
The EU has recently
published ‘A sustainable future in our hands – a guide to the EU’s sustainable
development strategy'. A comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of the
Strategy but also includes an extraordinary amount of basic guidance in plain
English aiming to inform uncomplicated ways to involve people in various issues
including sustainable consumption and production, global development and social
inclusion, with suggestions such as: “If you are healthy, valued by your
colleagues, friends and family, have a place in society, have the time and are
lucky enough to be at home in your world, reach out a hand and help someone
else belong.” Download it at: http://ec.europa.eu/sustainable/docs/sds_guide_en.pdf
b-Book: The Endless City.
Authors: Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic
The book Endless
City is a convincing and visually rich examination of the contemporary city and
an outstanding study of the growth of six of the World’s international cities
(New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin).As part of
the London School of Economics Cities Project; Key structural, economic and
social factors are extensively researched and revealed through texts from
world-renowned professional in the fields of urban planning and development.
c-Book: DIY Community
Action-Neighbourhood problems and community self-help.
This book from
author Liz Richardson is part of the Series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy and proposes ways forward for community building whilst challenging the
mainstream views on community development. The book raise a wide range of
questions for neighbourhood workers, policy makers, NGOs, politicians,
researchers and communities’ residents in general, adding to the debate of the
relevance and value of community activity.
4-Events:
a-British Museum
Documentary Premiere: LOHAKHOR Iron eaters.
Location:
Time:
There will be a
panel discussion after the screening. Tickets are £3 and can be booked through
the
To book a ticket,
visit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/london_documentary_festival.aspx
b- Ecores Forum: Environmental Justice
E-conference.
Exploring
the Ethical, Political and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Climate Change
Environmental
(In)Justice: Sources, Symptoms & Solutions
Date:
11-24/04/2008.
An
online forum to examine the roots of environmental & climate injustice and
search for ways to change the current scenario.
Academics
and activists, scientists and social critics, researchers, journalists, and
concerned citizens from around the world will be sharing their views on the
subjects.
To
find out more and register for the event, please visit: www.eco-res.org
c-
The Conservation
Foundation,
Location: St Saviours,
Nearest underground:
Knightsbridge
Date:
Time: 12.15 – 4.30
For further
information, visit:
http://www.london21.org/page/36/show/1615
d- Federation
for Community Development Learning: Annual Conference.
Date:
Location:
Federation for Community
Development Learning 3rd Floor, The Circle
‘Effective
and inclusive community empowerment needs to be underpinned by community
development learning and practice.’ http://www.fcdl.org.uk/events/documents/AGMmay08_conference_info.htm
e-ISSUES
2 ISSUES: ‘From the Laboratory to Action: Science and Policy-makers’.
A cross
disciplinary seminar on Sustaining Urban Ecosystem Services
Location:
Date:
The
seminar’s main aim is to promote discussion about knowledge transfer and
capacity building in relation to both researcher and practitioner needs.
The
event is free to attend, and is being run jointly with the organisers of
‘Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services’.
To find
out more please, visit: http://issues.abertay.ac.uk/
5-Policy:
a-Home Office: Crime
Strategy Guide.
Identifying responsive
local action planning and effective communication and community engagement as
very important aspects for an efficient crime reduction scheme, the Home Office
has published a new guide to the crime strategy and the new Public Service
Agreement (PSA) targets extracting the most important information for
practitioners to consider.
To download the
guide, visit: http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction020.htm
6-News:
a- Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency Partnership (REEEP):£2.5 million for renewable energy partnership.
UK Energy Minister
Energy Malcolm Wicks announced recently in
More: http://www.reeep.org/index.php?id=31&special=showHotTopic&sHotName=news&iHotId=91
b-
London
Sustainability Exchange Enviro-justice Champions project, recruited residents
to act on local issues in estates in Barking and Dagenham.
The project aims to
empower residents, enabling them to improve the quality of living in those
areas by improving dark and inaccessible subways; tackling fuel poverty and
cleaning up
LSX’ Enviro-justice
project’s toolkit to enable decision makers to map and address environmental
injustices will be available later this year. For more details contact Shalini
Jayasinghe on 020 7234 9408 /
c- The Guardian: Government
Figures Hide Scale of CO2 Emissions, Says Report.
The Government uses two
different carbon accounting systems; therefore
To read the full article, visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/17/climatechange.carbonemissions
7-Funding:
a- The Big Lottery-Young
People’s Fund 2: National Grants.
The Big Lottery fund
has opened application for up to £38 million worth of grants and expects to fund up to 20 projects of national
significance that involve young people in developing, running and reviewing
policies and services and help deliver the five ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes.
For more information,
click: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_ypf2_national_grants.htm?regioncode=-uk&status=theProg
8-Training and Jobs:
a-Capacity Global,
The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development and Ruskin
College-Oxford: Exploring Environmental Justice Residential Course.
Run in partnership
by Capacity Global, FIELD and
Location: Ruskin
College-Oxford
Date: 28-30 /05/2008.
To book a place,
please e-mail: iara@capacity.org.uk
b-Job vacancy: Chair
of London Sustainable Development Commission.
The London
Sustainable Development Commission was set up in 2002 as an independent advisory
body to the Mayor. Its mission is to promote integrated, innovative and truly
sustainable solutions to the local and global challenges of
LSDC is seeking a
new Chair who can bring both drive and practical commitment to sustainability
issues, with senior level experience, either directly in the specialised
sustainability field, or in a related area.
For further
information, please contact Frances Mapstone, Head of Social Inclusion and Health,
on 020 7983 4686 or, for further details about the Commission, see
http://www.londonsdc.org/ Information about the application process is
available at: http://www.london.gov.uk/jobs.jsp