Environment and sustainability

You will find the following information on this page:

• Upcoming papers/Conferences
• DERN Outputs
• Reports
• Useful Websites
• International Commitments
• Books related to Environment and Sustainable Development

Upcoming papers/Conferences

• The focus for the 2008 Trocaire Development Review is Climate Change and Development. Trocaire are now calling for papers for next year's publication. The deadline is the 4th December 2007. Click here for more information.
• Sustainable Irrigation Conference, 11th-13th June, 2008 in Alicante, Spain. Now calling for papers.

DERN outputs

• DERN recently made a submission to the Department of Education to inform the development of a National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development. View DERN's submission.
  
  In June 2007, Carol Healy gave a presentation on the linkages between the Environment and Development at the Environmental Change Institute's research day. In her presentation, Carol examined the relationship between development cooperation and environmental justice and discussed how environmental research and education creates synergy with development education through the “Education for Sustainable Development” framework. She also gave a brief synopsis of the work of DERN and highlighted some pertinent questions in relation to the integration of development education into the broader curriculum. View Carol Healy's presentation.
  
  Below is a list of useful reports and websites relating to the Environment and Sustainability.

Reports

• Africa Up in Smoke: Working Group on Climate Change and Development 
• Eco-Unesco: Research Project on Education for Sustainable Development in Ireland. Compiled by Eco-Unesco for Comhar.
• Stern Review, 2006
• Irish Aid Environmental Policy
• NEF report - The Unhappy Planet Index
• Oxfam briefing report: Adapting to Climate Change. What's needed in poor countries and who should pay
• The Rainforest Foundation and Forest Monitor: Concessions to Poverty. The Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts of Industrial Logging Concessions in Africa's Rainforests.

Websites 

NGOs/Non-Profit Organisations/Campaigns/Government Agencies 

Irish Issues

• Comhar is a forum for national consultation on issues relating to Sustainable Development issues in Ireland. Research reports commissioned on  Education for Sustainabble Development, and National Sustainable Development Strategies can be found on their website, as well as upcoming events and information about their work.
• Cultivate Centre This is a centre which promotes sustainable living. They have a number of educational programmes and run workshops and events related to environmental sustainability. They are based in Temple Bar, in Dublin.
• ECO-UNESCO is Ireland's Environmental Education and Youth Organisation. Their website provides information on their upcoming events, workshops and courses as well as their publications on sustainability.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The EPA is an independent public body charged with protecting the environment through licensing, enforcing, monitoring and assessment activities. Their website also highlights their research and education activities.  
• Garden Organic Carries out research on organic gardening, farming and food. Their website provides information on their work and organic growing both locally and globally.
• Irish Seed Savers This organisation is dedicated to the preservation of traditional varieties of fruits and vegetables. Their website has information on their education and research activities in this area.
• Plan Organic provides information on organic farming news, information on where to buy Organic products, references to publications on organic and sustainable food and farming issues and articles on sustainable/organic farming and related subjects. 
• The Organic Centre provides public education, training and information about organic growing and sustainable living
• The Power of One is an initiative by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to make people aware of the amount of energy they use in their daily lives and suggests ways of becoming more energy efficient.

International Issues

• Greenpeace This is an independent global campaigning organisation that aims to change attitudes and behaviour to protect and conserve the environment.
• Just Forests works on global poverty related tropical forest/timber issues from a local development perspective 
• One World.Net This is an online civil society network, with numerous news report on environment and development issues
• Stop Climate Chaos  This is a broad coalition of Irish organisations concerned about environmental and development issues.
• The Access Initiative is a global coalition of public interest groups to promote national level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation and justice in environmental decision-making.
• Tropical Rainforest Coalition is a non profit organisation building coalitions between individuals, corporations, businesses, learning institutions and NGOs seeking to reverse the unsustainable use of rainforests.
• Trocaire is currently developing a new coampaign  that focusses on Environmental Justice and focussed on climate Change during their Lenten Campaign

Research Institutes and Think Tanks

• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) This global alliance focuses on scientific research on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, policy and environment to reduce poverty in developing countries. Their website provides a number of publications related to these themes.  
• European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. Aims to promote quality in research and education in development studies. Their website has information on upcoming events, the activities of their numerous working groups, links to publications and information on their research.
• FEASTA - The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability is an international network, with a HQ in Ireland. They are looking at ways of making more sustainable economic systems.  There are a number of working groups within FEASTA discusing various sustainability topics.
• International Institute for Environment and Development This is an international policy research institute and non-governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. IIED have numerous publications in relation to environment and development.
• Institute for Development Studies, Sussex. One of the research areas of IDS is Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction, which includes the effects of Climate Change
• New Economics Foundation NEF is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well being
• Schumacher College runs a number of short term courses in sustainability
• United Nations University ESD Programme This Environment and Sustainable Development Programme run by the UNU focuses on 4 broad themes:
  1. Natural Resources Management
  2. Water crisis and disaster
  3. Environment Governance and Information
  4. Sustainable Urbanisation and Industry
• World Resources Institute This is an environmental think tank  that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

Multilateral Agencies

• Food and Agriculture Organisation the UN FAO leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Their website provides global information on agriculture, economic and social development, natural resources management as well as links to a number of their publications.
• Poverty Environment Partnership This is an informal network of development agencies, which seeks to improve the coordination of work on poverty reduction and the environment within the framework internationally agreed principles and processes for sustainable development. 
• Poverty and Environment Initiative This is an initiative led by the UNDP and UNEP to improve the linkages between environment and development.
• UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme website includes numerous publications on the effects development has had on the environment worldwide.
• UNESCO UNESCO are currently leading the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which is to run from 2005-2014. Their ESD website highlights some of the key activities for the decade and gives a comprehensive background to the rationale of ESD.

Gateways

• Development Gateway This is an online resource providing information on development issues, including issues such as climate change in Africa.
• Eldis This site contains over 22,000 documents on a range of topics including Environment. It is one of many "knowledge services" from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, UK.
• Irish Eco Politics This website hosts the Irish Ecopolitics Online Journal, a peer reviewed, online academic journal, which explores themes of environment, sustainability, and environmental politics.
• Sustainable Development Gateway This site provides over 1,200 documents on sustainable development topics, as well as a calendar of events, job listings, mailing lists and news sites dealing with sustainable development issues.

News sites

• BBC Planet Under Pressure The BBC looks at the planet's most pressing environmental problems in a six part series
• Human Fingerprint found in rainfall changes across Europe. Randersen, J. The Irish Times, 26th July 2007.
• Nature.com an online resource with an extensive section looking at climate change
• Organic Matters Magazine is the bi-monthly magazine of the Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association. Their magazine is available nationwide through subscription, Easons or WNS Distributors and their website also contains a number of articles and advice not featured in the magazine.
• The Guardian: How Climate Change Will Affect the World. Wed 19th Sep 2007.

International Commitments

• Rio Declaration 1992
• Agenda 21 1992
• Nairobi Declaration 1997
• Malmo Declaration 2000
• Johannesburg Declaration 2002
  
• Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals explicitly relates to Environmental Sustainability

Books related to Environment and Development

Below is a list of relevant reading material to the topic of Environment and Development

• Altieri, M.A., (1995). Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. USA.
  
• Adams, W.M. (2001) Green Development. Environment and sustainability in the Third World, Second Edition, Routledge, London and New York.
  
• Adams, W. (1990) ’The Blind and the Dumb’ chapter 8 of William Adams, Green Development, London: Routledge, pp168-191
  
• Agarwal, A. (1992) ’The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India’ Feminist Studies Vol 18, No 1,
  
• Bernstein, H. and Woodhouse, P. (2001), ’Telling Environmental Change like it is? Reflections on a study in Sub-Saharan Africa’. Journal of Agrarian Change. Vol 1, No 2, pp 283-324
  
• Blaikie, P. (1985) The Political Economy of Soil Erosion, London: Longman,
  
• Boserup, E. (1993) ’The conditions of agricultural growth. The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure’ Earthscan
  
• Conway, G. R. and Barbier, E.B. (1990) After the Green Revolution: Sustainable Agriculture for Development, London: Earthscan
  
• Crosby, A.W. (1993) Ecological Imperialism. The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
  
• Cruz, M. Medina, R. (2003), Agriculture in the city, A key to sustainability in Havana, Cuba. Ian Randle Publishers
  
• Davies, S. Leach, M. and David, R. (1991) ’Food Security and the Environment: Conflict or Complimentary?’ IDS Discussion Paper 285.
  
• Foster, J.B. (2000), Marx’s Ecology, Materialism and Nature, New York: Monthly Review Press.
  
• Gore, A. (2006) An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of Global Warming and what we can do about it. Bloomsbury,London
  
• Gupta, A. (1998), ’Peasants and Gloobal Environmentalism: A new form of Governmentality?’ Chapter 5 of A Gupta, Postcolonial Developments, Durham NC: Duke University Press pp 291-329
  
• Hansen, S. (1990) ’Macroeconomic Policies and sustainable development  in the Third World’ Journal of International Development Vol 2, No 4
  
• Hewitt, T. and Smyth, I. (2000), ’Is the world overpopulated?’ in Eds T. Allen and A. Thomas Poverty and Development into the 21 ^st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  
• Hughes, D.M. (2001), ’Rezoned for Business: How Eco-tourism Unlocked Black Farmland in Eastern Zimbabwe’ Journal of Agrarian Change Vol 1, No 4
  
• Jackson, C. (1994), ’Gender Analysis and Environmentalisms’ in Michael Redcliff and Ted Benton eds Social Theory and the Global Environment, London: Routledge, pp 113-149
  
• Khor, M. (2001) ’Effects of Liberalisation and the Clash of Paradigms’ Ch 5 in Globalisation and the Crisis of Sustainable Development Penang: Third World Network
  
• Larrain, S. (2003) Environment and Sustainability. In Fisher, W.F. and Ponniah, T. (Eds.) Another World is Possible. Popular Alternatives to Globalisation at the World Social Forum, Zed Books, London and New York
  
• Leach, M. and Mearns, R. eds, (1996), The Lie of the Land. Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment, Ozford: James Currey
  
• Lele, S. (1991), ’Sustainable development a critical review’ World Development, Vol 19, No 6, 1991
  
• Malig, M. L. (2003) ’The Environmental Costs of Development’ Ch 12 in McCann and McCloskey (eds) From the Local to the Global London: Pluto Press
  
• Marten, G.G. (2001), Human Ecology. Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development, London, Earthscan
  
• Martinez-Alier, J. (2002), The Environmentalism of the Poor, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
  
• McNeill, J. (2001), Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century, Penguin
  
• Fridtjof Nansen Institute, (2001), Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2001-2002, London, Earthscan
  
• Panayotou, T. (2000) Globalisation and the Environment, Centre for International Development Working Paper No. 53, Harvard University.
  
• Peet, R. and Watts, M. (1996), ’Development, sustainability and environment in an age of market triumphalism’ in Peet and Watts eds, Liberation Ecologies, London, Routledge
  
• Peluso, N. (1993), ’Coercing Conservation: The politics of State Resource Control’ in R.Lipshutz and Ken Conca eds., The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics, New York: Columbia University Press pp46-70.
  
• Redclift, M. (1987), Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions, London: Methuen, Chs 1,2
  
• Reij, C. & Waters-Bayer A. (2001) Farmer Innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. James & James/Earthscan
  
• Ross, E.B. (1998), The Mathus Factor. Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development, London: Zed Books
  
• Rosset P. and Benjamín M. (1994). The Greening of the Revolution. Cuba’s Experiment with Organic Agriculture. Ocean Press, Melbourne.
  
• Sen, P. (1995) Environmental Policies and North-South Trade: A Selected Survey of Issues. In Bhaskar, V. and Glyn, A. (Eds.) The North The South and the Environment. Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy, Earthscan Publications, London.
  
• Shahin, M. (2002) Trade and the Environment: How Real is the Debate? In Gallagher, K.P. and Werksman, J. (Eds.) The Earthscan Reader on International Trade and Sustainable Development, Earthscan Publications, London.
  
• Sinha, S. et al, (1997),  ’The ’New Traditionalistalist’ Discourse of Indian Environmentalism’ Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 24, no.3
  
• Sontheimer, S. (ed), 1991, Women and Environment: A Reader, London: Earthscan
  
• Thompson, M. (1995), ’Policy making in the face of uncertainty: The Himalayas as Unknowns’ in Chapman, G. and Thompson, M. Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley, London: Methuen
  
• Third World Network (2001) ’The Context of IEG: Sustainable Development’ Ch 2 in International Environmental Governance: Some Issues from a Developing Country Perspective
  
• Woodhouse, P. (2000), ’Environmental Degradation and Sustainability’ in eds Allen, T. and Thomas, A. Poverty and Development into the 21 ^st Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  
• Woodhouse, P. Bernstein, H. and Hulme, D. (2000), African Enclosures? The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands, Oxford: James Curry
  
• World Bank World Development Report 1992 (Oxford University Press 1992)
  
• World Commission on Environment and Development, (1987), Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  
• Wright, J.E, (2005), Falta Petroleo! Perspectives on the Emergence of a More Ecological Farming and Food System in Post-Crisis Cuba, Wageningen University Dissertation
  
• WWF (2001) How can multilateral trade deliver sustainable development outcomes? WWF European Policy Office, Brussels.

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