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World Sustainable Building Conference. Helsinki, 18-21 October 2011
Posted on: 21 October 2011
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This conference addresses new opportunities for improving quality of life, mitigating effects of climate change and making new business. 51 Scientific Sessions and 10 Special Forums covering all the themes of the conference. A large number of presentations, a conference report and videos of the event are available online.
Land for life: Securing our common future
Posted on: 21 October 2011
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The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariats collaborated on this new book to convey how sustainable land management practices are helping shape a sustainable future for people and the planet. The book is illustrated with high quality photos donated by the GoodPlanet Foundation and from other sources, to demonstrate how human ingenuity is largely driving innovations in soil, land, water, and vegetation management. It describes how harnessing natural, social, and cultural capital is addressing fundamental needs for livelihood and well-being, such as food, water, energy, and wealth, while delivering global environmental benefits.
Putting the ‘s-word’ back into sustainability: Can we be more social?
Posted on: 14 October 2011
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Professor Tim Dixon, Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD), has written a paper which argues that climate change and environmentalism have dominated the sustainability debate, and as a result there is a danger that social issues are being neglected. He adds that social sustainability needs to be at the heart of housing and mixed use development, warning that “recent English city riots have bought this point back sharply into focus.” The paper highlights ways of measuring social sustainability and identifies the operational issues in mainstreaming the concept in major mixed use projects. It was commissioned by developer the Berkeley Group and was produced by the OISD at Oxford Brookes University.
Climate in Asia and the Pacific: a synthesis of APN activities
Posted on: 14 October 2011
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The latest synthesis report from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), which draws together its scientific research from across the region, has climate change adaptation as a major theme. The APN hope that the report will allow countries to develop “appropriate policy responses to climate vulnerability and impacts”. The report is expected to develop knowledge ahead of both the UNFCCC climate conference in Durban (COP17) later this year and the ‘Rio+20’ UN Conference on Sustainable Development’ in the summer of 2012. The report will also contribute to the work of the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report, due to be released in 2014. [loaded 14 October 2011]
Eco-Cities: A global survey 2011
Posted on: 11 October 2011
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This survey, published by the University of Westminster’s International Eco-Cities Initiative, presents the results of a global survey whose primary aim is to identify and document the scale and diversity of current eco-city initiatives from an international perspective.
Sustainable development governance and policies in the light of major EU policy strategies and international developments
Posted on: 6 October 2011
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The European Sustainable Development Network Quarterly Reports provide in-depth documentation of a selected topic on a quarterly basis. The latest issue, September 2011, provides an overview and analysis of sustainable development governance and policies at the EU and Member States level.
Learning for Sustainability
Posted on: 4 October 2011
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The Learning for Sustainability (LfS) website highlights the wide range of social skills and processes that are needed to support constructive collaboration, and indicates how these skills and processes can be interwoven to achieve more integrated and effective outcomes. It brings links to several hundred annotated on-line resources from different sectors and geographic areas together in one easy to access place, and it concentrates on providing links to open access materials. New papers available on the site look at complexity, engagement, adaptation and social capital. One particular paper, Forests and climate change: Linking adaptation and mitigation, explores the linkages between the two options of adaptation and mitigation in order to understand their trade-offs and synergies. This paper explores this issue using Latin American examples.
Earth System Sustainability Initiative
Posted on: 30 September 2011
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The Stockholm Resilience Centre, together with the International Council for Science (ICSU) and a global alliance of partners, has established a major 10-year initiative which aims to effectively deliver solution-oriented research on global environmental change. The new collaboration, entitled the Earth System Sustainability Initiative, will provide global coordination for science to respond to the most pressing societal and environmental challenges.
Resilience in urban design: 4th International Urban Design Conference. Gold Coast, Australia, 21-23 September 2011
Posted on: 23 September 2011
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This event provided an opportunity to reinforce and highlight resilient solutions for city-wide planning, design and infrastructure in order to successfully address emerging challenges brought about by climate change, peak oil crisis, population growth, social disengagement, technological disparity, rising pollution and waste, demands on food production, rising carbon emissions, and diminishing habitat and biodiversity. A 350-page book of proceedings is available online.
2011 International Conference on Green Buildings and Sustainable Cities. Bologna, 15-16 September 2011
Posted on: 15 September 2011
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This event provided an international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of green buildings and sustainable cities. The aim was to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge developments in the field. 154 papers from the event are available in Vol.21 of Procedia Engineering.
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