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Social and environmental justice across generations is a fundamental attribute of sustainable development. In this article, which is also a call for papers for a future theme in Public Money & Management (PMM), we develop our case for further research on how governments and public service organizations seek to address sustainable development in their decision-making processes. We believe that accounting for social and environmental aspects is an underdeveloped area of research and practice that is worthy of further critical enquiry. We therefore call on researchers and practitioners to submit their research to a themed issue of PMM on managing and accounting for sustainable development in public services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Docherty I. and Mackie P. Planning for transport in the wake of Stern and Eddington, Regional Studies. The recent Stern and Eddington Reports for the UK Treasury emphasize the significance of the linkages between transport, land use, the environment, and the economy. Against that background, the purpose of this paper is to consider the future of transport planning in England given the liberalizing thrust of the Barker Review on land-use planning and the subsequent White Paper Planning for a Sustainable Future (2007). In reviewing the demographic and economic assumptions of the White Paper, it is concluded that in certain respects there are important mismatches between the emerging government policy on strategic planning and the Stern and Eddington Reports. [image omitted] Docherty I. et Mackie P. Planifier le transport a la suite des rapports de Stern et d'Eddington, Regional Studies. Les recents rapports Stern et Eddington, rediges au nom du ministere des Finances au Royaume-Uni, soulignent l'importance des liens qui existent entre le transport, l'occupation du sol, l'environnement et l'economie. Sur un tel fond, cet article cherche a considerer le futur de la planification du transport en Angleterre etant donne l'impulsion liberalisee donnee par la Barker Review sur l'occupation du sol et vu le projet de loi ulterieur Planifier un avenir durable (2007). En faisant la critique des suppositions demographiques et economiques du projet de loi, on conclut qu'il y a a certains egards d'importantes disparites entre la politique gouvernementale sur la planification strategique et les rapports Stern et Eddington. Transport Planification Avenir durable Occupation du sol Docherty I. und Mackie P. Verkehrsplanung im Anschluss an Stern und Eddington, Regional Studies. In den jungsten Berichten von Stern und Eddington fur das britische Finanzministerium wird die Bedeutung der Verknupfungen zwischen Verkehr, Landnutzung, Umwelt und Wirtschaft betont. Vor diesem Hintergrund soll mit diesem Beitrag die Zukunft der Verkehrsplanung in England untersucht werden, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Liberalisierungsbemuhungen im Barker-Gutachten zur Planung der Landnutzung sowie in der anschliessendem Weissbuchplanung fur nachhaltige Zukunft (2007). Nach einer Uberprufung der demografischen und wirtschaftlichen Annahmen des Weissbuchs ziehen wir den Schluss, dass die entstehende Regierungspolitik zur strategischen Planung hinsichtlich bestimmter Aspekte erheblich von Sterns und Eddingtons Berichten abweicht. Verkehr Planung Nachhaltigkeit Landnutzung Docherty I. y Mackie P. Planificacion para el transporte tras Stern y Eddington, Regional Studies. En los recientes informes de Stern y Eddington para el Ministerio de Hacienda del Reino Unido se pone de relieve la importancia de los vinculos entre transporte, uso del suelo, medio ambiente y economia. Con estos datos, en este articulo analizamos el futuro de la planificacion del transporte en Inglaterra, teniendo en cuenta el empuje liberal del Informe Barker sobre la planificacion del uso del suelo y la posterior Planificacion del Libro Blanco para un Futuro Sostenible (2007). Al revisar las hipotesis demograficas y economicas del Libro Blanco, concluimos que en ciertos aspectos existen importantes incompatibilidades entre la nueva politica gubernamental sobre la planificacion estrategica y los Informes de Stern y Eddington. Transporte Planificacion Sostenibilidad Uso del suelo [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how sustainable and smart strategies can be implemented in cities and how these strategies influence, and are influenced by, performance measurement systems. Drawing upon the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the authors present the case of Gothenburg in Sweden, where they interviewed the key actors involved in a new sustainability strategy. Translating strategy into performance measurement systems requires collaboration across organizational boundaries and considerations of financial goals and social and human aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the UK and elsewhere the use of the term ‘sustainable brownfield regeneration’ has resulted from the interweaving of two key policy themes, comprising ‘sustainable development’ and ‘brownfield regeneration’. This paper provides a critical overview of brownfield policy within the context of the emerging sustainable development agenda in the UK, and examines the development industry's role and attitudes towards key aspects of sustainable development and brownfield regeneration. The paper analyses results from a survey of commercial and residential developers carried out in mid‐2004, underpinned by structured interviews with eleven developers in 2004–2005, which form part of a two‐and‐half‐year EPSRC‐funded project. The results suggest that despite the increasing focus on sustainability in government policy, the development industry seems ill at ease with precisely how sustainable development can be implemented in brownfield schemes. These and other findings, relating to sustainability issues (including the impact of climate change on future brownfield development), have important ramifications for brownfield regeneration policy in the UK. In particular, the research highlights the need for better metrics and benchmarks to be developed to measure ‘sustainable brownfield regeneration’. There also needs to be greater awareness and understanding of alternative clean‐up technologies to ‘dig and dump’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The principles of sustainable development are becoming extremely relevant for organisations. In the case of universities, these institutions can act as agents in promoting these principles within society. The literature contains a wide range of studies which show how universities may play a critical role in disseminating sustainability principles on the one hand, and their translation into practice, on the other. At present, many higher education institutions are becoming more aware of their impact on the environment, and trying to understand the environmental needs and implications of their operations. Going further, some universities are incorporating sustainability principles into their activities. One of the questions that universities are now facing is how education for sustainable development can be translated into practice so that it can be effective in transforming society. This paper will discuss the need for and the usefulness of integrative approaches to implement sustainable development in higher education. In addition to a theoretical review of the state of the art, the paper will use case studies from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and Bournemouth University (UK) to illustrate the effectiveness of integration of sustainable development principles in university research and teaching activities, and the many benefits integrative approaches may bring about. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Product life-cycle reduction, hazardous substance utilisation, waste generation and resource utilisation – among other sustainably issues – are becoming a growing concern for electronics manufactures in the UK; with tighter measures not only over what materials can be used, but also on waste production and energy utilisation. This paper discusses extensions on a tool developed by the Loughborough University to include the evaluation of sustainable phenomena during production, thus supporting more sustainable production in the electronics manufacturing domain. The tool supports the optimisation of process and product design in advance of production runs in order to support a ‘right first time’ approach to manufacturing, whilst meeting both quality and customer requirements. The main contributions are (1) providing a simulation tool to approach sustainable aspects of business based on specific user priorities in the area, (2) demonstrating the tool on a real case study developed under industrial constraints and conditions and (3) providing a tool that can evolve along with the rapidly changing sustainability requirements in the application domain. The tool is presented, in this paper, along with its integrated modelling framework. The study contains results derived from an industry-based case study, designed to represent both the functionality and potential of the developed tool. The case study and the analysis have a focus on sustainable impacts due to poor quality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper, updated from a speech delivered to the CIB World Congress on 12 June 1998 at Gavle, Sweden, outlines recent and proposed developments by the UK government on its approach to sustainable development in construction. A wide definition of sustainability includes social progress, environmental protection, prudent use of natural resources and economic growth/stable levels of employment. A wide array of measures have been or will be implemented: an integrated national transport policy, a national programme of CO[sub 2] reductions from new (and possibly existing) buildings, a Social Exclusion Unit, a Welfare to Work programme, demonstration projects of sustainable construction, a new sustainable development strategy, dialogue with the construction industry, waste reduction schemes, landfill and aggregate taxes, improved management of water resources, an emphasis on whole life costs rather than initial capital costs of buildings, the development of sustainability indicators. Cette communication, mise a jour apres une allocution prononcee le 12 juin 1998 a Gavle (Suede) devant le Congres mondial du CIB, trace les grandes lignes de l'evolution recente et des mesures proposees par le Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni en matiere de developpement durable dans le secteur de la construction. Une definition elargie de la durabilite englobe le progres social, la protection de l'environnement, l'utilisation precautionneuse des ressources naturelles ainsi que la croissance economique et des niveaux stables d'emploi. Des mesures nombreuses et diverses ont ete ou seront appliquees: une politique nationale integree de transport, un programme national de reduction des emissions de CO[sub 2] par les batiments nouveaux (et eventuellement les batiments existants), une unite d'exclusion sociale, un programme sur les conditions de travail, des projets de demonstration de construction durable, une nouvelle strategie de developpement durable, un dialogue avec le secteur de la construction, des mecanismes de reduction des dechets, des impots sur les remblais et les agregats, une meilleure gestion des ressources en eau, un plus grand accent place sur le cout pendant la duree de vie plutot que sur le cout d'investissement initial des batiments et enfin le developpement d'indicateurs de durabilite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the South West of the UK, a growing number of rural and urban communities are exploring various pathways to a more sustainable living. The village of Belstone is among these pioneers of change through its Green Village project. It is a relatively affluent community and it has been a major challenge to engage people that are reticent to change their lifestyle and suspicious of the motives of the initiators. Based on a process of action research, this paper explores the attitudes and perceptions towards sustainability and how they influenced the people's engagement. We demonstrate that the partnership was effective in enabling the villagers engaged in the project to take control over the process. Behaviour changes were reported by the villagers actively engaged with the initiative. The Green Village did not “snowball” to the entire community; however, many of those who chose not to engage associated the word “Green” with traits that they did not identify with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rhetoric of sustainable development has become the accepted response to the environmental challenges faced by contemporary society. As the concept becomes more widely accepted amongst politicians, policy-makers and the public, attention is increasingly focusing on the relative roles and responsibilities of citizens and consumers, individuals and institutions, and local and national spaces, in translating these into practical actions. This paper offers a critical assessment of a significant UK government initiative aimed at promoting sustainable communities. It charts the course of one of five pilot Sustainable Communities Projects around the country, set up by Going for Green. This national body was set up by the government to generate environmental improvements by encouraging individual actions. The paper suggests that, in the absence of national policies that motivate and enable changes in individual behaviour, a centralized marketing-based approach is a wholly inappropriate means of promoting environmental citizenship. The marketing model fails to recognize the real context of household decisions. Indeed, the long-term impacts of such approaches may even serve to increase the cynicism of publics and local agencies with regard to national level programmes that aim to communicate the urgency and importance of sustainability issues. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COWELL R. and OWENS S. (1998) Suitable locations: equity and sustainability in the minerals planning process, Reg. Studies 32, 797-811. This paper examines the connections between uneven development and sustainable development, focusing on the British land use planning system where tensions are emerging between 'environment-led' and 'balancing' interpretations of sustainability. The key argument is that the spatial dynamics of uneven development are an integral component of these tensions, and their reconciliation, as sustainable development is interpreted through planning processes in different localities and at different levels of governance. This perspective is developed by examining British minerals planning policy and the conflicts generated by the Lingerbay superquarry proposal on the Isle of Harris. While the UK Government has sought to use the planning system to find a politically acceptable 'spatial fix' for aggregates production, rather than manage resource demand, presumptions about uneven development which apparently underpin this policy are being challenged, not least for their equity implications. Interpreting sustainable development in ways which are sensitive to different contexts and the connections between them remains a major challenge. COWELL R. et OWENS S. (1998) L'adéquation des emplacements: les notions d'équité et de renouvellement au sein des projets visant l'extraction des minerais, Reg. Studies 32, 797–811. Portant sur les plans d'occupation du sol britanniques qui se caractérisent par la naissance des tensions entre l'interprétation du renouvellement qui favorise une façon 'écologique' et celle qui prône une approche plus 'équilibrée', cet article cherche à examiner les liens qui existent entre les notions de développement irrégulier et de développement durable. L'argument principal est que la dynamique spatiale du développement irrégulier fait partie intégrante de ces tensions-là, et de leur résolution, parce que le développement durable se voit interpréter par voie des systèmes de planification dans des endroits divers et à des niveaux d'administration différents. Cette perspective se développe en examinant la politique britannique visant l'extraction des minerais et les conflits qui ont été engendrés suite à la proposition en faveur du développement d'une grande carrière sur l'île de Harris. Alors que le gouvernement britannique cherchait à se servir du système de planification pour découvrir un emplacement destiné à la production des agrégats et susceptible d'être acceptable du point de vue politique, plutôt que de maîtriser la demande de ressources, il semble que des suppositions au sujet du développement irrégulier qui sont à la base de cette politique se voient contester, à commencer par les conséquences pour ce qui concerne la notion d'équité. L'interprétation du développement durable dans des manières qui répondent aux contextes différents et aux liens qui existent, reste à faire. COWELL R. und OWENS S. (1998) Angemessene Standorte: Recht und Billigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit bei der Mineralgewinnung, Reg. Studies 32, 797–811. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht Verknüpfungen von ungleichmäßiger und nachhaltiger Entwicklung, wobei die Hauptaufmerksamkeit sich auf das britische Planungssystem in Fragen der Bodennutzung konzentriert, wo Spannungen zwischen 'umgebungsbegründeten' und 'gleichgewichtsbestimmenden' Interpretationen der Nachhaltigkeit auftreten. Das Hauptargument ist, daß die räumliche Dynamik ungleichmäßiger Entwicklung ein integraler Bestandteil dieser Spannungen und ihres Ausgleichs ist, da nachhaltige Enrwicklung mit Hilfe von Planungsprosessen au verschiedenen Orten und auf verschiedenen Ebenen der Regierung interpretiert wird. Diese Perspektive wird mittels Untersuchung der britischen Planungspolitik in Fragen der Mineralgewinnung und der Konflikte entwickelt, die durch den Plan von Lingerbay entstanden sind, auf der Insel Harris einen Riesensteinbruch zu eröffnen. Während die Regierung des Vereinigten Königreichs sich bemüht, auf der Grundlage des Planungssystems ein politisch annehmbares 'Raumrezept' für die Produktion von Aggregaten zu finden, statt die Nachfrage nach Rohstoffen zu steuern, werden Annahmen bezüglich ungleichmäßiger Entwicklung angegriffen, die dieser Politik zu Grunde liegen, nicht zuletzt der Implikationen ihrer Recht und Billigkeit wegen. Die Interpretation nachhaltiger Entwicklung auf eine Art und Weise, die verschiedenen Zusammenhängen und ihren Verbindungen untereinander gerecht wird, bleibt weiterhin eine Hauptaufgabe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability and sustainable development are prominent themes in international policy-making, corporate PR, news-media and academic scholarship. Its definitions are contested, however sustainability is associated with a three-pillar focus on economic development, environmental conservation and social justice, most recently espoused in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. In spite of its common usage, there is little research about how sustainability is represented and refracted in public discourse in different national contexts. We examine British national press coverage of sustainability and sustainable development in 2015 in a cross-market sample of national newspapers. Our findings show that key international policy events and environmental and social justice frames are peripheral, while neoliberalism and neoliberal environmentalism vis-à-vis the promotion of technocratic solutions, corporate social responsibility and “sustainable” consumerism are the predominant frames through which the British news-media reports sustainability. This holds regardless of newspaper quality and ideological orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explores the current status of implementing policy in sustainable development related teaching in higher education in Turkey. Turkish higher education policy has included increased commitment to sustainable development in recent years. However, there has not been much research conducted on its implementation. Hence, this study involves assessing the current status of sustainable development in teaching at higher education institutions (HEIs) in Turkey. Regarding the research design, a systematic review of accumulated sustainable development related teaching in all 193 HEIs in Turkey (as of the 2015-2016 academic year) was carried out. The accumulated programmes are categorised by occupation concerning sustainable development for the future of Turkey, and the courses are presented within those categories. Whilst many programmes and courses related to sustainable development were identified, the data also reveals the following features: the repetition of same courses; disciplinary partiality, particularly on environmental engineering; disciplinary conservatism and the lack of interdisciplinary practice in general; and last but not least, the differences between what sustainable development means in the European higher education political initiative and what the state of practice is in Turkish higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability is an increasingly important issue in higher education, both in the UK and internationally. Although environmental sustainability is the most frequently identified of the three pillars of sustainability (social and economic sustainability being less widely understood), there has been little previous research which has quantitatively explored the relationship between university attendance and commitment to environmental sustainability. This article presents the results of an analysis of data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which compared young adults at UK universities with other respondents of a similar age in order to explore this relationship. Commitment to environmental sustainability was measured on a scale developed from seven questionnaire items used in BHPS Wave 18, and the relationship between university attendance and subsequent scale scores was examined. Results show that university attendance has a significant positive association with commitment to environmental sustainability over other adult transition pathways, including participation in other forms of full-time education, when gender and social class are taken into account and when prior educational attainment is held constant. Thus, we argue that UK universities may have a desirable impact on environmental commitment, and we explore possible explanations for our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Massive investment has been allocated by the UK government to improve the quality of its programme of rented social housing over the next five years. Central to the achievement of this aim will be the incorporation of sustainability features within the building projects associated with this development programme. A sustainable development policy that addresses environment, economy and society in equal measure is a new funding requirement for social housing projects. There is a gap between policy and practice in two areas: (i) the possession or otherwise of a sustainable development (SD) policy; and (ii) the relative importance given to differing features of sustainability. The perceptions and practice of built environment professionals involved in the procurement of sustainable housing schemes has been gauged regarding SD policy. Quantitative data were collected from a randomized sample of 338 developing registered social landlords (RSLs). The results show that only a minority of respondent organizations have developed a sustainable development policy and that environmental, economical and societal aspects of sustainability are not given equal weighting. This does not reflect governmental policy and suggests that sustainability is not being fully addressed in the procurement of social housing projects. Further work is needed to evaluate the links between sustainability and procurement approaches, and to model the benefits of delivering sustainable housing projects for RSLs in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]