by Andrea Westall | Apr 1, 2016
Marion Walker draws on research into the 2013/2014 UK floods to argue that “by understanding their perspectives and capacities” children and young people “could inform more effective policy, enhance resilience and reduce the impact of future...
by kultur.work | Mar 24, 2016
The environmental and social planning consultancy, Essential Planning Ltd., is offering a training course for the internationally recognised IAP2 Foundations in Public Participation, which will provide participants with an overview of public participation, best...
by kultur.work | Mar 24, 2016
The event on 11 April, hosted by the ESRC’s The UK in a Changing Europe (UKiCE) Initiative, will have leading practitioners debate the findings of a landmark independent report on the implications of a Brexit for the UK’s environment. “The EU has had a profound...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 20, 2016
This report summarises and updates the analysis and practical implications of previous FDSD work on the The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change. It investigates the links between democracy and climate change, as well as the drivers of change that might...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 20, 2016
This report suggests that deliberative democracy is a collaborative and effective way to develop the concerted, ambitious and creative action needed to respond to climate change. Drawing on the work of Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) in organizing mini-publics, it...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 19, 2016
Simon Burall argues that in relation to climate change, “the public debate is almost exclusively framed in scientific terms”. In order to “take the comprehensive action needed” government needs to recognise other forms of evidence and give them...
by kultur.work | Jan 15, 2016 | News and Comment
Climate change is a notoriously ‘distant’ risk for most people. We hear about it in the news, but it rarely seems relevant to our everyday life – “it feels ‘not here’ and it feels ‘not now’”. This sense of non-urgency couldn’t be further away from the actual impact...
by kultur.work | Jan 15, 2016
The Transformative Power of Transparency? Wageningen University, the Netherlands – June 24- 25, 2016 The conference, taking on the subject of transparency as a transformative tool for strengthening democracy and sustainable development, will address...
by kultur.work | Dec 10, 2015 | News and Comment
On 29 November 2015, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history. 785.000 citizens participated in 2,300 events in 175 countries and thousands of cities to march for a clean energy future, aiming...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 21, 2015 | News and Comment
The UK Government hasn’t yet involved the public or any other stakeholder in discussions about the relevance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for domestic application in the UK. According to BOND’s report on Bringing the Goals Home: Implementing the SDGs in...
by Ann Thorpe | Oct 20, 2015 | News and Comment
Image: Air traffic visualisation, NATS Press Office Open data is a term used to describe data that is free and openly available for anyone to use. Many governments around the world are challenging software developers to help identify applications that help citizens...
by Ann Thorpe | Oct 20, 2015 | News and Comment
The UN: success of Sustainable Development goals depends very much on process. Image: number10gov/flickr, CC BY-NC James Patterson, Florian Koch, and Kathryn Bowen have written an article examining key governance issues underpinning the success of the UN’s...
by kultur.work | Oct 19, 2015
Image (modifed): courtesy of Barn Images / flickr.com (CC0) Legislation Lab is an online platform for enabling public discussion of upcoming legislation. International in reach, it offers citizens easy access to legislation – as well as examples of related experiences...
by kultur.work | Oct 19, 2015 | News and Comment
Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, which focus primarily on social development priorities in low-income countries, the Sustainable Development Goals are intended to apply to developing and developed countries alike. In her Green House essay What do the...
by kultur.work | Oct 17, 2015
The upcoming Paris negotiations are key to the UN process of achieving an agreement that will limit global warming – but how engaged are the public with the conference? What do they think about its goals and how the UK government should be involved? This event,...
by kultur.work | Oct 14, 2015
As part of the Open Government Partnership Summit in Mexico from October 27th to 29th, there is a panel discussion on Lessons from OGP Initiatives for Operationalizing SDG #16 where a variety of stakeholders will offer perspectives based on their OGP experiences for...
by Cat Tully | Oct 13, 2015
In her FDSD Provocation, Cat Tully argues that two elements of SDG 16: “responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making” as well as “effective, accountable and inclusive institutions” are essential for the achievement of...
by Ann Thorpe | Oct 3, 2015
The UN adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015. Former FDSD Trustee Janos Zlinsky was active in the development of these Goals as part of a UN Open Working Group (OWG) formed in 2013,...
by kultur.work | Sep 16, 2015 | News and Comment
Ecological crises can make politics horrible: panic-inducing scarcity, ethnic and religious conflict, hunger driven imperialism. In his latest essay “Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy”, Professor Jedediah Purdy is shedding light on the fact that an...
by kultur.work | Aug 9, 2015
FDSD’s first programme of work, 2009 to 2013, culminated in a Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, the guiding principles being: We cherish sustainability: meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own...
