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Research paper thumbnail of The importance of an integrating framework for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the example of health and well-being

BMJ global health, 2016

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force in January 2016 as the central United... more The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force in January 2016 as the central United Nations (UN) platform for achieving 'integrated and indivisible' goals and targets across the three characteristic dimensions of sustainable development: the social, environmental and economic. We argue that, despite the UN adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework for operationalising them in an integrated fashion is lacking. This article puts forth a framework for integrating health and well-being across the SDGs as both preconditions and outcomes of sustainable development. We present a rationale for this approach, and identify the challenges and opportunities for implementing and monitoring such a framework through a series of examples. We encourage other sectors to develop similar integrating frameworks for supporting a more coordinated approach for operationalising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Research paper thumbnail of Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures

A Handbook, 2003

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures Susanne Stoll-... more CHAPTER THIRTEEN Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures Susanne Stoll-Kleemann, Tim O'Riordan, and Tom R. Burns The coupling of humans and nature It is now apparent that climate is no longer a natural phenomenon. In-deed, there is no such thing ...

Research paper thumbnail of DELIBERATIVE AND INCLUSIONARY PROCESSES

... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan, Jacqueline Burgess and B... more ... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan, Jacqueline Burgess and Bron Szerszynski CSERGE Working Paper PA 99-06 Page 2. ... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan 1 , Jacqueline Burgess 2 and Bron Szerszynski 3 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Building trust in shoreline management: creating participatory consultation in shoreline management plans

Research paper thumbnail of The psychology of denial concerning climate mitigation measures: evidence from Swiss focus groups

… environmental change, 2001

Various studies of public opinion regarding the causes and consequences of climate change reveal ... more Various studies of public opinion regarding the causes and consequences of climate change reveal both a deep reservoir of concern, yet also a muddle over causes, consequences and appropriate policy measures for mitigation. The technique adopted here, namely integrated ...

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture: evidence from a case study

Research paper thumbnail of On Evaluating the GM Nation? Public Debate About the Commercialisation of Transgenic Crops In Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Using Surveys In Public Participation Processes for Risk Decision Making: The Case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public Debate

Risk …, 2005

This article takes as its case study the “GM Nation?” public debate, a major participation proces... more This article takes as its case study the “GM Nation?” public debate, a major participation process on the commercialization of agricultural biotechnology, which occurred in Britain during the summer of 2003. We investigate possible self-selection biases in over 36,000 open questionnaire ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Co-Evolutionary Approach to Climate Change Impact Assessment: Part I. Integrating Socio-Economic and Climate Change Scenarios

Global Environmental …, 2000

Climate change policies currently pay disproportionately greater attention to the mitigation of c... more Climate change policies currently pay disproportionately greater attention to the mitigation of climate change through emission reductions strategies than to adaptation measures. Realising that the world is already committed to some global warming, policy makers are beginning ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Difficulties of Designing Future Coastlines in the Face of Climate Change

This paper adopts two perspectives. The first is a framing process aimed at defining and examinin... more This paper adopts two perspectives. The first is a framing process aimed at defining and examining the conditions for adopting adaptive coastal governance. The second applies to relevant themes of changing coastal policy, central to the testing of adaptive coastal governance, namely cooperative science, risk-sensitive planning, socially fair insurance cover and effective ways to design, finance and engage with local communities over actual coastal change. We illuminate both missions through case studies in North Norfolk (England) and Portugal, all notably affected by coastal change. In England and Portugal, there is a broad understanding and acceptance of the likely effects of climate change. This recognition encourages debates over risk-averse planning, the design of proactive insurance cover, creative relocation of endangered property and new ways of predicting and paying for coastal adjustment. Yet, moving from a basic willingness to engage with coastal change to actual practices of landscape adjustment through such policy shifts is proving very difficult. In this research, we find that coastal landscapes are lived experiences, resigned acceptances of inevitable change and hopeful imaginings. Coastal management institutions are not geared to resolving this incompatibility and this paper explains why.

Research paper thumbnail of The importance of an integrating framework for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the example of health and well-being

BMJ global health, 2016

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force in January 2016 as the central United... more The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force in January 2016 as the central United Nations (UN) platform for achieving 'integrated and indivisible' goals and targets across the three characteristic dimensions of sustainable development: the social, environmental and economic. We argue that, despite the UN adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework for operationalising them in an integrated fashion is lacking. This article puts forth a framework for integrating health and well-being across the SDGs as both preconditions and outcomes of sustainable development. We present a rationale for this approach, and identify the challenges and opportunities for implementing and monitoring such a framework through a series of examples. We encourage other sectors to develop similar integrating frameworks for supporting a more coordinated approach for operationalising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Research paper thumbnail of Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures

A Handbook, 2003

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures Susanne Stoll-... more CHAPTER THIRTEEN Linking the citizen to governance for sustainable climate futures Susanne Stoll-Kleemann, Tim O'Riordan, and Tom R. Burns The coupling of humans and nature It is now apparent that climate is no longer a natural phenomenon. In-deed, there is no such thing ...

Research paper thumbnail of DELIBERATIVE AND INCLUSIONARY PROCESSES

... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan, Jacqueline Burgess and B... more ... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan, Jacqueline Burgess and Bron Szerszynski CSERGE Working Paper PA 99-06 Page 2. ... A Report from Two Seminars edited by Tim O'Riordan 1 , Jacqueline Burgess 2 and Bron Szerszynski 3 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Building trust in shoreline management: creating participatory consultation in shoreline management plans

Research paper thumbnail of The psychology of denial concerning climate mitigation measures: evidence from Swiss focus groups

… environmental change, 2001

Various studies of public opinion regarding the causes and consequences of climate change reveal ... more Various studies of public opinion regarding the causes and consequences of climate change reveal both a deep reservoir of concern, yet also a muddle over causes, consequences and appropriate policy measures for mitigation. The technique adopted here, namely integrated ...

Research paper thumbnail of Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture: evidence from a case study

Research paper thumbnail of On Evaluating the GM Nation? Public Debate About the Commercialisation of Transgenic Crops In Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Using Surveys In Public Participation Processes for Risk Decision Making: The Case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public Debate

Risk …, 2005

This article takes as its case study the “GM Nation?” public debate, a major participation proces... more This article takes as its case study the “GM Nation?” public debate, a major participation process on the commercialization of agricultural biotechnology, which occurred in Britain during the summer of 2003. We investigate possible self-selection biases in over 36,000 open questionnaire ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Co-Evolutionary Approach to Climate Change Impact Assessment: Part I. Integrating Socio-Economic and Climate Change Scenarios

Global Environmental …, 2000

Climate change policies currently pay disproportionately greater attention to the mitigation of c... more Climate change policies currently pay disproportionately greater attention to the mitigation of climate change through emission reductions strategies than to adaptation measures. Realising that the world is already committed to some global warming, policy makers are beginning ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Difficulties of Designing Future Coastlines in the Face of Climate Change

This paper adopts two perspectives. The first is a framing process aimed at defining and examinin... more This paper adopts two perspectives. The first is a framing process aimed at defining and examining the conditions for adopting adaptive coastal governance. The second applies to relevant themes of changing coastal policy, central to the testing of adaptive coastal governance, namely cooperative science, risk-sensitive planning, socially fair insurance cover and effective ways to design, finance and engage with local communities over actual coastal change. We illuminate both missions through case studies in North Norfolk (England) and Portugal, all notably affected by coastal change. In England and Portugal, there is a broad understanding and acceptance of the likely effects of climate change. This recognition encourages debates over risk-averse planning, the design of proactive insurance cover, creative relocation of endangered property and new ways of predicting and paying for coastal adjustment. Yet, moving from a basic willingness to engage with coastal change to actual practices of landscape adjustment through such policy shifts is proving very difficult. In this research, we find that coastal landscapes are lived experiences, resigned acceptances of inevitable change and hopeful imaginings. Coastal management institutions are not geared to resolving this incompatibility and this paper explains why.