Increasing the awareness and understanding of the holistic nature of sustainable development
Confidence amongst decision-makers has increased, leading to a bold approach to tackling sustainability issues in an integrated way.
Our activities here include:
- Identify opportunities to facilitate independent thinking and support cross –sectoral discussions
- Collate and promote best practice and new ideas from within North East England and elsewhere
Sustaine seeks to promote opportunities to facilitate independent thinking and support cross-sectoral discussions. Our ‘world class thinking’ events are part of an action learning process to help inspire and support further activity to deliver sustainable development.
In April 2010, Sustaine in partnership with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development (CURDS) at Newcastle University and sustainability strategists Beyond Green, held two technical workshops exploring how we can work towards achieving a sustainable future for North East England.
The two workshops – “How shall we live?” and “Where shall we live?” – were designed to provide a forum for policymakers and stakeholders to consider evidence from leading-edge sustainability practice and debate the implications, opportunities, barriers and catalysts to practical sustainable development outcomes. Together, the two workshops were attended by over 110 delegates drawn from a wide array of local, sub-regional and national stakeholder bodies.
A short paper, prepared by Beyond Green and CURDS, is now available. The paper summarises the key emerging policy issues and makes recommendations for the advancement of this agenda and the potential future role of Sustaine.
Download the document. How shall we live…and so where shall we live? An agenda for healthy, prosperous and sustainable lives in the north east of England.
The keynote speaker presentations and a summary of the proceedings of the workshops are available at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/research/projects/project/3506.