SuScit mailing - April 2008.
CONTENTS:
1-SuScit Project update:
a- First Shared Workshop: Sharing Local
Knowledge and Experience.
2-Research:
a- DEFRA: ‘Understanding and Influencing Pro-environmental
Behaviour’.
3-Publication:
a- DEMOS: Seen and Heard: Reclaiming the Public Realm with Children and Young People.
b-DCLG:
Crime Reduction and Community Safety: The Crucial Role of the New Local
Performance Framework.
4-Events:
a- EPRSC and Royal Institute
of British Architects-Future Fair 2008-The Local and the Global.
b- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)-People and Planning
Seminar.
c- DTA National Symposium 2008-Community Empowerment:
Unlocking Talent through Community Anchors and
d- Sustainability Live 2008-Birmingham.
5-Policy:
a-GLA Policy area :Supplementary Planning Guidance: Providing
for Children and Young People’s Play and Informal Recreation.
6-News:
a- Environment Secretary and Energy Saving Trust launch
Act on CO2 package: Fighting Climate Change in Homes and Communities.
b- Minister confirms funding for New Deal for Communities
in 2008-09.
c-
7-Funding:
a-ISSUES project offers
PhD studentship.
8-Training and Jobs:
a-Capacity Global, The
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development and Ruskin
College-Oxford: Exploring Environmental Justice Residential Course.
b-Women’s Environmental Network: Volunteering Vacancies.
1-SuScit Project update:
a- First Shared Workshop: Sharing Local
Knowledge and Experience:
This week nearly 50 researchers,
sustainability practitioners and residents from Mildmay,
2-Research:
Defra research programme - ‘Understanding and Influencing
Pro-environmental Behaviour’:
Defra’s ‘Understanding and Influencing Pro-environmental Behaviour’
research programme includes six research projects: research into per capita
carbon footprints, the micro- and macro-economic effects of the adoption of
pro-environmental behaviours, motivations for pro-environmental behaviours, the
notion of ‘green mavens,’ and public understanding of the concepts of
sustainable clothing and of the links between climate change, energy and food
consumption in the home.
For more details, click: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/scp/research/themes/theme3/sustain-consump0708.htm
3-Publication:
a- Seen
and Heard: Reclaiming the Public Realm With Children
and Young People:
Authors:
Joost Beunderman, Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Publication
Type: Pamphlet
Seen
and Heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children and young people is a
pamphlet that uses six case studies to explore the everyday experiences of
children in public. It argues that we need a paradigm shift in the way we think
about the built environment- one which addresses the deepening segregation
between generations. The needs of the young are not opposed to those of other
users of public spaces, but closely aligned. With a range of recommendations
designed to empower frontline professionals and young people, this pamphlet
offers practical steps to create communities that are welcoming for all.
To
download, visit: http://www.demos.co.uk/files/070928_DEMOS_S&H_Pamphlet.pdf
b-
DCLG: Crime Reduction and Community Safety: The Crucial Role of the New Local
Performance Framework:
The new
local performance framework for local authorities and their partners is now
available. The Assessments of Policing and Community Safety (APACS) is the new
assessment framework for the police working alone and in partnership and this
is also live from April 2008.
This
publication describes how the two new performance frameworks for the police and
local government will work together and draws attention to some of the implications
for those working at a local level.
To
download this publication, visit:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/crimereduction
4-Events:
a-EPRSC
and Royal Institute of British Architects: Future Fair 2008:
The
Futures Fair aims to bring together architects, design and construction
professionals and researchers for lively seminars and debates on the future of
our towns and cities.
Discussion
topics include population, planning, energy, materials, transport, leisure and
retail.
Date:
Location:
Royal Institute of British Architects,
For
more information:
http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/projects/building-futures/futures-fair-08
b-Royal
Institute of British architects-People and Planning seminar:
There
is a lot of talk of ‘environmental sustainability’ when it comes to city
planning. But what of ‘people sustainability’? As
patterns of global migration become ever more complex and fluid, who will
actually be living in these cities of the future, and what services,
habitations, and demands will they all variously have? Who are we planning for?
Speakers:
Dr Ayona Datta – Cities Programme,
Reinier
de Graaf – Partner & Director, OMA & AMO
Chair:
Andrew
Curry – Director,
Click
here to download the programme and the booking form:
http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/assets/downloads/RIB04_FFRIBA_Flyer_v7.pdf
c-
Community Empowerment: Unlocking Talent through Community Anchors and
The
forthcoming Community Empowerment White Paper seeks to increase the ability of
the individual citizen to influence local decisions, improve local services,
take on civic roles, and hold officials and councillors to account.
But, as
many in Government recognise, community empowerment is not achieved simply by
people acting as individuals alone. It is also about people who are excluded
from power organising themselves, and building alliances with others, to bring
about positive change
Date: 5
June
Location:
DTA national symposium 2008.Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre,
For
further information: http://www.dta.org.uk/whatsnew/symposium08.htm
d-
Sustainability Live! the
In 2007
Sustainability live! brought
together 450 exhibitors and around 7,000 visitors, making it a very successful
platform to do business.
Apart
from a line up of top brand suppliers, Sustainabilitylive!
2008 will see awards, networking and an extensive features programme including
high level keynotes, master classes, and seminars over 3 days. For more
information on each individual show please visit the environment, land, energy
and water sections.
Date:
20-22 May
Location:
NEC
To
register, visit: http://www.sustainabilitylive.com/slive08/common/
5-Policy:
Providing
for Children and Young People’s Play and Informal Recreation
Supplementary
Planning Guidance:
This
SPG aims to help those involved in planning local neighbourhoods to engage with
young Londoners to deliver real improvements in the quality of play spaces. The
SPG offers guidance to London Boroughs on providing for the play and recreation
needs of children and young people under the age of 18 and the use of targets
in the preparation of Play Strategies and in the implementation of Policy 3D.13
as set out in the London Plan (consolidated with Alterations since 2004).
To
download the paper: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/sds/spg-children-recreation.jsp
6-News:
a-Environment Secretary and Energy Saving Trust: Fighting Climate Change in homes
and communities:
A range
of initiatives to make homes greener were set out in April by Environment
Secretary Hilary Benn, who urged the need to take the fight against climate
change into our homes and living rooms.
Part of
the package includes the ACT ON CO2 Advice Line – a one stop shop for free,
tailored, impartial advice from the Energy Saving Trust on how to reduce your
carbon footprint.
To
demonstrate how communities can live a low carbon lifestyle the Green
Neighbourhoods initiative will give a green makeover to up to 100
neighbourhoods in
For more,
visit: http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2008/climate-0402.htm
b-
Minister Confirms Funding for New Deal for Communities in 2008-09:
Communities
Minister Baroness Andrews announced that deprived communities across the
country will benefit from over two hundred million pounds in 2008-09. This
money will be paid through established neighbourhood partnerships to help boost
job opportunities, raise educational achievements and reduce levels of crime.
More: http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/743404
c-
London
Sustainability Exchange new plans to make
Energise
The
project aims to help communities, reduce their energy and water use as well as
to encourage more take up of renewable energy. The programme will also be
helping to tackle fuel poverty - helping those who are unable to afford to heat
their homes adequately, often society’s most vulnerable groups like the
elderly, the sick or those on a low income.
Find
out more:
http://www.lsx.org.uk/news/articles.aspx?id=3131
7-Funding:
a- ISSUES
project offers PHD studentship:
The ISSUES project is offering a PhD studentship for research
projects covering a range of issues about improving knowledge transfer and
exchange from research conducted into urban sustainability.
For further information:
http://www.urbansustainabilityexchange.org.uk/ISSUESAboutUs.htm
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-Women’s Environmental
Network: Volunteering positions:
The Women’s
Environmental Network is currently seeking experienced volunteers, able to
offer a regular commitment of at least one day a week for a period of three
months or more, to take on a range of positions. Volunteers’ travel within
As WEN is a
women-focused organisation and all staff and volunteers are expected to deal
with enquiries from women which may be of a personal or health nature, these
volunteer vacancies are open to women only, in accordance with Section 7 (2)(e)
of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
For further information
on how to apply, visit:
http://www.wen.org.uk/general_pages/jobs.htm