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Home > planNet News 4 Nov 2011: Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA)
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planNet News 4 Nov 2011: Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA)
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SD News
IGES launched its Rio+20 feature website "Rio+20: Towards and Beyond" Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has just launched its Rio+20 feature website with updates on IGES activities and policy messages from an Asia-Pacific perspective towards Rio+20.
SD ToolboxA Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) is crucial for policy integration and for improving policy decisions. IA can improve and structure the knowledge base for the three basic (or more) dimensions of SD and make trade-offs transparent, while it remains in the political sphere to weigh up and decide for an alternative presented. IA has to be established as a governance procedure, and its scope of application has to be broadened to all major decisions.
The IA procedure will be reinforced if there is a legal obligation to mainstream sustainable development as a central organising principle for policies, as is the case in Wales.
Furthermore, the assessments should be made public (transparency of the procedure) and decision makers should be required to show how they used the IA for their policy decisions. While there is room for improvement in some aspects, EEAC considers the IA system of the European Commission as a good practice example, amongst others because of its transparency (all IA reports are announced and published on a website), the encompassing scope of application, and systematically assessing impacts on the three key dimensions of SD, economic, environmental and social.
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SD Knowledge Bank
New Book: World Trends in Education for Sustainable Development
Edited by Walter Leal Filho
Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, October 2011
It is widely acknowledged that sustainable development is a long-term goal, which both individuals and institutions (and countries!) need to pursue. This important theme is characterized by an intrinsic complexity, since it encompasses ecological or environmental considerations on the one hand, and economic matters, social influences and political frameworks on the other. This makes provisions in respect of education for sustainable development a particularly challenging task, but one which is feasible and achievable, provided the right elements are put into place.
This book is an attempt to foster the cause of education for sustainable development, by documenting and disseminating experiences from different parts of the world, where learning for, about and through the principles of sustainability is taking place, in various sets and contexts, in both industrialized and developing nations. A special feature of this book is that it not only presents a wide range of philosophies, approaches, methods and analyses with respect to education for sustainable development across the world, but also documents and disseminates concrete case studies, which show how education for sustainable development may be realized in practice.
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