Sustainable Development Commission Research Articles

Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Tourism and Disability Published in TR Index Journals

As a disadvantaged group, people with disabilities are affected by almost all activities of the societies they live in. It is known that they do not have the same opportunities as people without disabilities to access services such as maintaining their daily lives in society, meeting their educational and health needs. The issue that all humanity should know and remember is that everyone is a potential disabled person. UNESCO Sustainable Development Commission has set many targets for people with disabilities until 2030. In this direction, it is a known fact that the importance and role of tourism activities in human life is increasing day by day. Scientific fields related to tourism phenomenon, especially disability, attract the attention of academicians and all researchers. Especially in recent years, there has been an increase in the number of publications in various scientific fields related to the concepts of tourism and disability. Analysing the scientific research conducted in the field of tourism and disability within the framework of different standards is a guide for scientists conducting different scientific studies in this field. In line with this goal, the aim of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific articles on disability and tourism between 2005-2023 in journals indexed in TR Index. For this purpose, 56 articles were found in the TR Index database with the words disability and tourism in the subject content, keywords, or title. In order to reveal the evolution of the articles published in the field of disability and tourism over time, 56 articles included in our research were bibliographically analysed within the framework of 10 different criteria listed as the name of the journal, scientific fields of the articles, publication years, research topics, publication languages, types, countries and cities where the research was conducted, types of research methods, keywords used in the articles and the frequency of these keywords. As a result, it is noteworthy that the number of studies on tourism and disability published in the TR Index has increased rapidly over the last 5 years and that most of the articles are published in the social sciences, especially in tourism journals. In addition, some of the findings are that most of the articles included in the study were prepared as research articles, qualitative research methods were often preferred, and almost all the studies were written in Turkish.

Money, environment and eyelids

Fireman Z. Biopsy forceps: reusable or disposable? J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;21:1089–92. Article Google Scholar Lockington D, Macdonald E, Mantry S, Ramaesh K. A case for single use disposable corneal forceps: equipment reliability should be the primary concern. Br J Ophthalmol. 2010;94:388–9. Article Google Scholar NHS England. Carbon emissions: carbon footprinting study sustainable development commission. London: NHS England; 2008. Wormer BA, Augenstein VA, Carpenter CL, Burton PV, Yokeley WT, Prabhu AS, et al. The green operating room: simple changes to reduce cost and our carbon footprint. Am Surg. 2013;79:666–71. Article Google Scholar Lockington D, Dutton GN. Eyes, economics and the environment: should green issues drive changes in ophthalmic care?–no. Eye. 2010;24:1312–4. CAS Article Google Scholar Download references Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK Christine A Putri, Parushak Rezai, Jennifer Capel & Zanna Currie You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to Christine A Putri. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Reprints and Permissions Putri, C.A., Rezai, P., Capel, J. et al. Money, environment and eyelids. Eye (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-020-01189-z Download citation Received: 17 July 2020 Revised: 12 September 2020 Accepted: 14 September 2020 Published: 22 September 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-020-01189-z

Sustainable performance-oriented production practices in the Indian iron and steel industry: An empirical investigation

Capital-intensive industries consume fossil fuels for mass production with little concern for nature's assimilative capacity, which results in an accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Pollution abatement systems based on market-induced correctives and multi-national agreements works as ex-post remedial measures and have limited effectiveness in the reduction of GHGs. In this paper, we formulate the sustainable-structure-conduct-performance (S-SCP) paradigm as an ex-ante remedial measure by mimicking the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm to reduce the GHGs. By using a dynamic panel data, the workability of the S-SCP paradigm was tested on CO2 emissions for selected major Indian iron and steel industries (IISI). Our findings show that the green relative index was positively significant in respect of green value added (GREVA). However, green R&D and barriers to entry and exit were negatively significant in respect of GREVA. Overall, the S-SCP paradigm's test in ISII suggests that the incorporation of social cost into the firm's structure and conduct will achieve sustainable performance-oriented production practices that reduce CO2 emissions. We propose general suggestions on industrial parks for green technology innovation, management responsibility mechanisms, environmental impact assessment notifications and an Indian sustainable development commission.

A Composição Sociopolítica do Legislativo Brasileiro: uma análise da Comissão de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (2004-2015)

The Legislative power, traditionally studied by Political Science, is an object that can and should also be analyzed by Political Sociology. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, this article aims to observe the sociopolitical composition of the Environment and Sustainable Development Commission of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies from 2004 to 2015. Based on the analysis of the Annual Reports of the Commission, this paper observes the level of schooling, gender, age group and the professions of the members of parliament. The research also highlights the length of time the parliamentarians spend in the Commission, as well as their allocation into the different parties.

When evidence-based synergies remain ignored

The peremptory sacking in November of last year of David Nutt, the Government’s Senior Drugs Advisor and Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, certainly sharpened the debate about the role of scientific advice in shaping policy. As a former advisor to government on sustainable development (as Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission), I couldn’t help but reflect on my own experiences in monitoring the fortunes of ‘evidence-based policy making’, including the unedifying site of Ministers occasionally but ruthlessly ignoring evidence when it was unwelcome to them from a policy perspective. Drugs policy is of course a hotly contested area. David Nutt’s principal issue was over the classification of cannabis, relative to other drugs—including tobacco and alcohol. But it all goes much deeper than this. Since the introduction of the Misuse of Drugs Act back in 1971, one government after another (as in the United States) has ignored the reality that any ‘war on drugs’ is completely unwinnable and that it makes no sense at all to go on criminalizing problem drug users rather than treating them for their addiction. Criminalizing recreational drug users makes even less sense. Drug dealers are of course a different story, but if we had a different drugs regime (based on treatment and legalized, controlled use), there would be far fewer dealers than there are today. Crime levels would be dramatically reduced, communities far better protected and health costs from drug dependency and abuse made far more manageable. So many benefits, from a policy maker’s point of view, with very strong evidence to back it up. But ‘politically unsellable’ it would seem, after decades of politicians heroically ignoring the evidence to go on grandstanding their unwinnable war. I suspect that most readers may be struggling to link drugs policy to sustainable development. But for those of us who continue to resist the interpretation of sustainable development as ‘the environment with a few socio-economic knobs on’, drugs policy is as much part of sustainable policy making as air pollution or waste management. That, of course, is the essence of the Government’s 2005 Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Securing the Future’, which could not be clearer about the ‘twin’ overarching objectives (‘Living Within Environmental Limits’ and ‘Ensuring a Strong, Healthy and Just Society’), as well as about the critical importance of ensuring a sound evidence-based foundation for policy making (Fig. 1). It is the synergies between these five principles, rather than any one of the five on its own, that best characterize successful policy making within the broad framework of sustainable development. Healthier lives and sustainable environments are inextricably intertwined; the language of sustainable HEALTH EDUCATION RESEARCH Pages 4

Nuclear Power – A Panacea for Future Energy Needs?

Each week seems to bring further evidence that the Earth is warming at a faster rate than previously estimated. Pressure is building to replace power sources that emit carbon dioxide with those tha...

How “Inconvenient” is Al Gore's Climate Message?

The release of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth and his subsequent training of thousands of Climate Presenters marks a critical transition point in communication around climate change. This paper will show that key elements of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the advice and training he gives to Climate Presenters are based on the results of research into marketing approaches to creating behavioural change. This paper will then consider the ultimate effectiveness of this approach to Climate change communication in the light of the critique of such marketing approaches to communicating on environmental issues in the 2008 WWF report, 'Weathercocks & signposts'.

Moving towards sustainable food retailing?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an outline of, and some reflections on, the review entitled Green, Healthy and Fair published by the Sustainable Development Commission in February.Design/methodology/approach – In summarising the content of the review the paper focuses government policies and retailer initiatives in six priority areas namely climate change; waste; water; ecosystems; nutrition and obesity; and fair relationships within supply chains and outlines a number of recommendations made to governments and agencies. This is followed by a number of reflections designed to set the review into wider debates about sustainable development.Findings – In reflecting on the review the paper focuses on three sets of issues namely differing definitions of sustainable development, the role of the state in implementing sustainable development and the ways in which sustainable development is constructed.Originality/value – The paper offers some reflections on the Sustainable Development Commission'...

Does demolition or refurbishment of old and inefficient homes help to increase our environmental, social and economic viability?

Does demolition or refurbishment of old and inefficient homes help to increase our environmental, social and economic viability?

Climate change … what can we do?

There are so many other problems besetting the NHS just now that talking about sustainability and environmental policies is diversionary. Right? Wrong. As speaker after speaker emphasised at the conference organised by the Climate and Health Council1 which took place on the 29 January 2008 and held at the Royal College of Physicians, ‘Climate change and its impact on health’, what is good health advice for individual patients, eating less fat, cycling, controlling fertility, is also good for the health of the planet. The editor of The Lancet, Richard Horton, said, ‘Climate change is about social and environmental justice and doctors need to be advocates for their patients and their countries and create a social movement across the health sector’. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, quoted GMC guidelines. One of the two duties of a doctor laid down by them is ‘to protect and promote the health of … the public’. ‘Gone are the days when doctors care only for the health of individual patients. Climate change should be on the agenda of every health meeting’. The NHS as a whole has huge energy consumption and vast spending power and implementing sustainable policies makes not only good environmental but also good economic sense. The Sustainable Development Commission has been set up to take this initiative forward in six areas, transport, procurement, facilities management, employment and skills, community engagement, and new buildings. Are you a good corporate citizen? Take the test at www.corporatecitizen.nhs.uk.2 Both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have undertaken to become carbon neutral with the RCPCH appointing a champion for carbon footprint reduction who is addressing paper use, improved use of technology, recycling, food and travel policy, and electricity and gas usage. Increasingly, large international conferences at exotic, carbon-expensive locations are being spurned in favour of video-conferencing. What else can we, as individual doctors, do? Mike Gill, retired regional director of public health, wrote recently on behalf of the Climate and Health Council in the BMJ ‘We should inform our professional colleagues and the wider community about the health consequences of climate change … we should set an example by reducing our personal carbon footprints and ensuring that the organisations we work for do likewise. Thirdly, we should advocate … Fourthly, health professionals should seek innovative approaches to using our many networks … to recruit as many … as possible’.3 As GPs, what is our role? Perhaps encourage our College to follow the lead of sister colleges in embracing a sustainable agenda? While environmental campaigning can never intrude into precious consultation time, we, as advocates for our patients, have close contact with our local communities and our views have influence. As Glasgow Professor of Public Health, Phil Hanlon, said at the conference, ‘Economic growth associated with rising consumerism and individualism seems to be damaging our sense of wellbeing and the cohesion of our society’. He believes that sustainable policies will improve, not only environmental and physical, but also mental and spiritual, health. Definitely the business of general practice. Dr Mark Thompson, a GP in Powys, offers a good example. His practice has an environmental policy, ‘A blueprint for a green practice’, which sets out 12 steps towards a carbon-light surgery. These address energy use, transport, recycling, encouraging patients attending for travel advice to consider offsetting, and minimising unnecessary journeys to the surgery. He is pleased that the RCGP Road Map for their vision for the future of primary care included a reference to carbon emissions; and he has submitted to the QOF Committee a proposal that QOF points should be awarded for carbon emissions reduction. Practices like the car-free Dalkeith Road Practice in Edinburgh, which rely on bikes and occasional taxis to do their visits, would earn their points. Rural practices are more car-dependent but Borders Time, the Borders wide Continuing Professional Development programme, is about to promote a green practice award open to any practice with an innovative carbon reduction scheme. Such ideas, and many others, will be shared at a conference in June on ‘Carbon reduction and health, a guide to reducing the footprint of the health sector’, organised by the BMJ, the RCPCH, and the Faculty of Public Health. Legislation against smoking eventually happened when doctors, and the public, forced politicians to act. The sooner we achieve robust legislation to curb carbon dioxide the better. We don't have a lot of time.

An analysis of New Labour’s policy on education for sustainable development with particular reference to socially critical approaches

This article links the prospects of sustainable development to democratic socialism and those forms of knowledge and learning developed by the global anti‐capitalist movement. While socially critical approaches to education for sustainable development (ESD) can accommodate these forms, they are marginalised by New Labour’s policies on sustainable development and education. Contradictions between neo‐liberalism and social democracy in these policies explain why ESD has made limited progress and suggest the kinds of initiatives and ESD indicators the UK government is likely to favour. The article establishes the policy context for a second article that focuses on how the UK ESD community responded to the author’s report on possible approaches to an ESD indicator, commissioned by the Sustainable Development Commission.

A new business model for sustainable development: an exploratory study using the theory of constraints in Nordic organizations

AbstractThe business model in use by many large companies has changed significantly from that of a decade ago and has incorporated environmental and social aspects of performance. However, given these achievements, are there unavoidable inhibitions in the contemporary business model that mean that even exemplar corporations cannot become sustainable?A key issue is consumption without limits, but can businesses do anything about this? The UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission identifies this as an issue. There is a need for an open‐minded consideration of business fundamentals to consider this issue as part of an identification of criteria for a sustainable business model.This is an account of an exploratory study undertaken to identify a new business model for sustainable development. The theory of constraints was adapted to provide the project's methodology that made use of semi‐structured interviews and secondary material. The cloverleaf account of sustainable development was used to structure and analyse sustainable development information. The organizations studied are all located in Nordic countries, since these countries are globally recognized for sustainable development achievements. Conclusions of the study acknowledge that, whilst specific new management tools and approaches of Nordic organizations do help sustainable development, it is the social context in which these organizations function that is a critical factor. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

Editorial: Putting sustainability science to work: assisting the East of England Region to respond to the challenges of climate change

In May 2006 the Prime Minister made it publicly clear to the incoming Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, David Miliband, that limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases, and dealing with climate change generally, is his top priority.1 Indeed, all policies and institutional arrangements will need to be challenged to achieve the ambition of 60 per cent reduction of carbon dioxide by 2050 (DTI 2003). How may this ambition be delivered sustainably? The UK Sustainable Development Strategy (HM Government 2005) placed an emphasis on the principles and practices of sustainability at all levels of government in the UK. Eventually all of these different levels will be expected to produce sustainable development action plans, beginning with all central government departments, regional administrations and devolved administrations in 2006 (HM Government 2005 2006). The regions have a vital role to play in delivering adequate responses to climate change, both in adapting to its impacts and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Crucial are the Regional Spatial Strategies, since these guide mid-range planning decisions on settlement, transport and energy (see also HM Government 2006). However, it is clear that integrating governance-for-sustainability into emerging regionalism and localism in the UK is still at the embryonic stage (O’Riordan 2004). The UK Sustainable Development Commission (2005) reviewed the regional policy machinery with a view to improving its capability to achieve sustainable development. It proposed that regional sustainable development frameworks should be established at the highest level of integration both for evaluating and progressing sustainability. In its response (HM Government 2006, 17), the Government called for the use of evidence-based scenarios, stakeholder involvement, integrated visions, clear targets, sustainability appraisal techniques and regular monitoring and reporting via independent regional sustainable development round tables.

Trying harder: Developing a new sustainable strategy for the UK

The UK reviewed its National Sustainable Development Strategy during 2003 and 2004, and produced a new strategy — the third for the UK — in March 2005. Having established that the main weakness of the previous strategy was in its delivery, the review and the resulting new strategy set out to put a much stronger emphasis on delivery mechanisms. In support of this, the process included more participative ways for those involved in delivering to contribute their views and ideas, including web-based dialogue, participative events and seminars, and community level discussions. The key points for the success of the project were the involvement of stakeholders; project management of the process; a marketing and communications strategy; cross-departmental governance; and involvement of an external challenge function (fulfilled in the UK by the Sustainable Development Commission).

Sustainable development commission reports

Sustainable development commission reports

A nuclear dawn [nuclear programme

Campaign groups and left-wing labor MPs expressed concern over the UK government's confirmation of support for the use of nuclear power to secure the nation's energy needs for the next generation as indicated on its 216-page energy review. While advocating the use of a mix of clean, low-carbon energy sources that would include more renewable power generated from wind farms, wave and solar, the review stated that a new generation of nuclear power stations could make a contribution to reducing carbon emissions and reducing reliance on imported energy. Groups including the Sustainable Development Commission and Friends of the Earth, however, believe that the UK does not need to replace its existing nuclear power program.

A Review of the United Kingdom Sustainable Development Commission's Report

Association of economic growth with negative externalities is considered detrimental towards welfare maximization, the basic objective of development. To reverse such a trend, it is necessary to overcome this impediment. It is through 'Sustainable Development' that this mission can be fulfilled. In the United Kingdom, the need to frame appropriate strategies for maintaining sustainable development was conceived, long ago. However, several lacunae existed with those strategies, on account of which a supervisory body - Sustainable Development Commission was developed. Their comments on the progress of the governmental actions in attaining sustainability and the deficiencies that existed therein were delivered to the public in the annual report by the name of Better Quality of Life. Their latest report in public view, was for the year 2003. A concise note of this report, supplemented with comments from experts, is attempted herein.

A Great Step Further but Still More to Go: The U.K. Sustainable Development Commission Report: Shows Promise. But Must Try Harder

The U.K. Sustainable Development Commission reports periodically on the state of sustainable development policies in the United Kingdom. This review commends the current report's balanced approach but asks a key question: Has it covered all the relevant details?

Briefing: Better buildings through sustainable development

This keynote speech was given by Peter Head at the Better Building Summit hosted by the DTI in October 2003. In it he outlines the work being carried out by the London Sustainable Development Commission in developing a practical approach to improving waste and emissions reduction, take-up of renewables and water efficiency.

Placing sustainable development at the heart of government in the UK: the role of law in the evolution of sustainable development as the central organising principle of government

The government has made a commitment to ensure that sustainable development is placed at the heart of decision-making. The UK's strategy has primarily involved the development of voluntary measures to achieve sustainable development in policy-making. These measures are monitored by a Sustainable Development Commission and, most importantly, a parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee. However, a number of public bodies also have a statutory duty in respect of sustainable development. These duties do not create enforceable legal obligations, but may have significant value as a clear statement of policy on the achievement of sustainable development – providing political leadership at the highest level. It is essential to this aim that the government provides a clear message regarding the objective of sustainable development. However, close investigation of these duties reveals not only a partial legal framework, but a number of inconsistencies in the government's approach to the achievement of sustainable development.