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Knowledge and Diplomacy

Science Advice in the United Nations System

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee for Survey and Analysis of Science Advice on Sustainable Development to International Organizations

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Knowledge and Diplomacy

Science Advice in the United Nations System

In the international effort to advance human health, welfare, and development while better managing and conserving the environment and natural resources, there is a clear and growing recognition of the role of scientific and technical knowledge in global governance. This has created an urgent need for the United Nations to equip itself with the capability to bring scientific knowledge to inform international decision making. Given the complexity and diversity of United Nations programs, organs, and mandates, this report focuses on the main functions of the United Nations that affect international governance in the fields related to sustainable development, with reference to the taxonomy of the key United Nations organs in which these functions are undertaken. Efforts have been made to ensure that the major categories of United Nations organs have been covered and therefore the results of the review are representative of the functioning of the United Nations system.

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Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management

Summary of a Workshop

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on the Practice of Sustainability Science

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Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management

Summary of a Workshop

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on the Practice of Sustainability Science

The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, embrace systems thinking, and incorporate the social, economic, and environmental considerations of sustainability. Landscape-scale analysis takes this holistic view by focusing on the spatial scales most appropriate for the resource types and values being managed. Landscape-scale analysis involves assessing landscape features in relation to a group of influencing factors such as land use change, hydrologic changes or other disturbances, topography, and historical vegetation conditions. As such, different types of data and multiple disciplines may be required for landscape analysis, depending on the question of interest and scale of analysis. Multi-resource analysis (MRA) is an approach to landscape-scale analysis that integrates information among multiple natural resources, including ecosystem services, and is designed to evaluate impacts and tradeoffs between development and conservation at landscape scales to inform public resource managers. This approach implicitly addresses social, economic, and ecological functional relationships; for example, actions to realize the benefits of one type of natural resource (e.g., minerals, oil, and gas) may influence behavior and potential benefits related to other types of natural resources (e.g., recreational opportunities). In June 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on using landscape-based approaches and MRA to better inform federal decision making for the sustainable management of natural resources. Participants discussed knowledge gaps and priority areas for research and presentations of case studies of approaches that have been used to effectively integrate landscape-based approaches and MRA into practice. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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Knowledge and Diplomacy

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U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy

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U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy

The United States and other countries around the world face problems of an increasingly global nature that often require major contributions from science and engineering that one nation alone cannot provide. The advance of science and engineering is an increasingly global enterprise, and in many areas there is a natural commonality of interest among practitioners from diverse cultures. In response to challenges, the National Academies held a workshop in Washington, DC, in February 2011, to assess effective ways to meet international challenges through sound science policy and science diplomacy. U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy summarizes issues addressed during this workshop. Participants discussed many of the characteristics of science, such as its common language and methods; the open, self-correcting nature of research; the universality of the most important questions; and its respect for evidence. These common aspects not only make science inherently international but also give science special capacities in advancing communication and cooperation. Many workshop participants pointed out that, while advancing global science and science diplomacy are distinct, they are complementary, and making them each more effective often involves similar measures. Some participants suggested it may sometimes be more accurate to use the term global science cooperation rather than science diplomacy. Other participants indicated that science diplomacy is, in many situations, a clear and useful concept, recounting remarkable historical cases of the effective use of international scientific cooperation in building positive governmental relationships and dealing with sensitive and urgent problems. To gain U.S. and international perspectives on these issues, representatives from Brazil, Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, and Syria attended the workshop, as well as two of the most recently named U.S. science envoys, Rita Colwell and Gebisa Ejeta.

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Sustainable Development Reporting by Government Departments

Seventh Report of Session 2005-06; Report, Together with Annex, Formal Minutes and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

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Sustainable Development Reporting by Government Departments

Seventh Report of Session 2005-06; Report, Together with Annex, Formal Minutes and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

The regular annual report, the Sustainable Development in Government report, covering the whole of central government on environmental and sustainable development issues, is seen as a success in the "greening government" initiative since 1997, along with the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate. Reporting by individual departments is less satisfactory. The Framework contains targets for departments on public reporting of their sustainable development impacts, but they are neither demanding nor specific. Some significant areas of departmental activity fall outside the parameters for sustainable development reporting, for example involvement in PFI contracts, and the Committee wants departments to be able to report on these matters. The UK Sustainable Development Strategy required all departments and executive agencies to produce an annual Sustainable Development Action Plan (SDAP) by December 2005. The Committee is disappointed that 14 departments and agencies did not meet this deadline. The Committee would like SDAPs to be published alongside the departmental annual reports in the spring. This report also includes, as an annex (p. 11-41), the National Audit Office briefing, detailing the findings of its review of annual sustainable development reporting by UK government departments in 2004.

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021502947X

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Scientific Advisory System

Scientific Advice on Climate Change

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology,Science And Technology Committee

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Scientific Advice on Climate Change

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology,Science And Technology Committee

This is the fourth case study into the Scientific Advisory System. It is concerned with the way government receives advice and how it deals with scientific uncertainty. it found that climate change is an area where scientific advice was well integrated into policy making. Through close links between the DETR and the Hadley Centre and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Government is well informed of the latest and most authoritative scientific opinion from around the world. The Committee believe that the IPCC model could be usefully adopted for other policy areas of global significance such as genetically modified organisms or ocean pollution.

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World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002

From Rhetoric to Reality

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee

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World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002

From Rhetoric to Reality

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee

The UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in September 2002 in Johannesburg, saw over 100 national leaders, including Tony Blair, meet to agree an action plan to tackle continuing global problems relating to poverty and resource use. The summit saw three key outcomes established: a political declaration, an implementation plan, and a range of partnership initiatives. The Committee's report concludes that the UK's performance in the Summit negotiations, although effective, was undermined by an inadequate communications strategy and reported indecision over the attendance of the Environment Minister. Support is noted for the Government's decision to mainstream its Summit commitments into departmental work programmes through existing mechanisms, such as public service agreements and a revised UK sustainable development strategy, rather than introduce a separate implementation process. The importance of continued monitoring and reporting procedures to assess progress is judged to be crucial. The Committee supports international calls to strengthen UN structures, such as the UNEP, which need to be sufficiently robust in order to ensure the momentum of the Johannesburg Summit is not lost.

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