International Review of Behaviour Change Initiatives: Climate Change Behaviours Research Programme
This report, commissioned as part of the Scottish Government?s Climate Change Behaviours Research Programme, reviews a range of behaviour change initiatives that have attempted to reduce the carbon intensity of consumption practices. It aims to enhance understandings of different… Read more
Sustainable Development Goals: Schools Pack for teaching the UN's development goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 goals defined by the United Nations to tackle the world's biggest problems by 2030. In this article Emily Reynolds of the British Council's schools team explains why it is in students' interest to know about the goals, and how tea… Read more
The climate debt crisis: why paying our dues is essential for tackling climate change
This report explains the concept of 'climate debt', and explores how redressing the balance between international 'debtors' and 'creditors' is an essential prerequisite for effective global action to combat both climate change and poverty. It seeks to demonstrate why current atte… Read more
Civil Society: community, challenge and change
Civil society is all of the organisations and groups that occupy the space between the household, the state and the private sector. Civil society can play a valuable role in the delivery of services, can empower the poor and marginalized and campaign for policy change. For an e… Read more
Living with the Land: Proposals for Scotland's First Sustainable Land Use Strategy
This discussion paper will be of broad interest to researchers working in the areas of community involvement, climate change and sustainable development. It sets out the views of member bodies of Scottish Environment LINK regarding the land use strategy to be prepared under Secti… Read more
Oxfam Humankind Index for Scotland: first results
Oxfam Scotland's Humankind Index is an attempt to develop a new way of measuring what makes a good life: one that takes money into account, whilst also recognising that it takes more than just economic growth to make a prosperous nation. The Oxfam Humankind Index (HKI) is about v… Read more
Rural Scotland in Focus Report 2010
This report has been written by researchers from SAC?s Rural Policy Centre, along with contributions from specialist authors from partner organisations, in transport, health, environment, the voluntary sector and rural services. It presents the latest evidence about the way that… Read more
The State of Happiness: Can public policy shape people's wellbeing and resilience?
This final Local Wellbeing Project report brings together four years of groundbreaking work based on in-depth pilots - from teaching resilience to children in schools to promoting neighbourliness - with three councils in very different areas of England: Manchester, Herfordshire a… Read more
Right Here, Right Now - taking co-production into the mainstream
This discussion paper is the last of three reports from nef and NESTA. The first report, The Challenge of Co-production, published in December 2009, explained what co-production is and why it offers the possibility of more effective and efficient public services. The second repor… Read more
Delivering for the environment in our communities: an audit of Single Outcome Agreements
This new audit of Single Outcome Agreements captures how sustainable development and the environment are being addressed by each Community Planning Partnership, and determines emerging trends. It finds significant gaps in addressing national priorities such as climate change adap… Read more