date:         Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:59:03 -0000
from:         malcolm eames <malcolm.eames@NTLWORLD.COM>
subject: SDR-Network Mailing: 18 November 2003
to:           SDRN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

   Contents:

   1.      RURAL DELIVERY REPORT

   2.      DfT HORIZONS RESEARCH CALL

   3.      ESRC RESEARCH SEMINARS COMPETITION

   4.      GREENING GOVERNMENT 2003 NEW EAC REPORT

   5.      FUTURE OF UK ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

   6.      LSE CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND GOVERNANCE

   7.      EARTHSCAN HAS A NEW HOME

   8.      'HAPPINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY' - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HEALTH & SOCIETY UCL

   9.      SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 04 - C A LL F O R P A P E R S

   10.   SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION SEMINAR: 'SHARING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PUBLIC SPACES

   11.   Policy Studies Institute job opportunities

   12.   CORPORATE PROGRAMMES OFFICER AT EARTHWATCH EUROPE

   13.   HEAD, TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR IPCC

   14.   INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

   15.   MARIE CURIE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

   16.   RESEARCHER - THE CLIMATE GROUP/CONFERENCE OF THE REDUCERS


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   1. RURAL DELIVERY REPORT

   In November 2002, Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
   Affairs, invited Lord Haskins to carry out an independent review of the arrangements for
   delivering government rural polices in England. Lord Haskins report, which includes 33
   separate recommendations for improving delivery of rural policies, has now been completed
   and was published on 11 November 2003. For details see
   [4]http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/ruraldelivery/default.htm

   DEFRA has begun work on a detailed response, which will be published in the Spring of next
   year. Comments or suggestions can be sent by e-mail to the Defra implementation team at:
   [5]ruraldeliveryprogramme@defra.gsi.gov.uk. It may not be possible to answer every e-mail
   individually, but the Q&A will be updated regularly with answers to the questions we
   receive. Please check online for these regular updates, which can be found in the Rural
   Delivery Review section of our website.


   2. DfT HORIZONS RESEARCH CALL

   The DfT is looking to support innovative research about future challenges and opportunities
   with a horizon of between 10 and 30 years.  Proposals are sought that either: a) research
   issues that may affect meeting, in the longer term, DfT's objective, or b) look at the
   specific impacts on transport of new technologies.

   The first Call for the new programme is now on the science and research pages of the DfT
   website. This gives fuller details of the type of research proposal DfT are interested in
   and how to express interest in the programme. News about the progress of the programme and
   supported projects will be published on the website regularly. See:

   [6]http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_science/documents/page/dft_science_025627.hcsp


   3. ESRC RESEARCH SEMINARS COMPETITION

   Information regarding the 2003/4 call for the ESRCs annual seminar competitions is now
   available on the ESRC website at:
   [7]http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCContent/researchfunding/seminars.asp


   4. GREENING GOVERNMENT 2003 NEW EAC REPORT

   Greening Government is the process of incorporating environmental objectives in both
   operational aspects of departmental performance and policy appraisal and development.   As
   part of its audit role in holding departments to account, the Environmental Audit Committee
   has published its latest report on this topic, Greening Government 2003,  HC 961 of Session
   2002-03. The Committee's report, Greening Government 2003, is available on the Committee's
   website at
   [8]www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/environmental_audit_committee.cfm.    It
   offers a critical analysis of the Governments Sustainable Development in Government:  First
   Annual Report, published in November 2002, which is at
   [9]http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/sdig/reports/index.htm


   5. FUTURE OF UK ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

   The final report of the review of the future of the environmental science in the UK,
   commissioned by the Environmental Research Funders Forum is now available together with the
   Forums initial responses to the recommendations made. See

   [10]www.erff.org.uk/whatsnew.asp


   6. LSE CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND GOVERNANCE

   The LSE have established a new Research Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance. The
   Director is Professor Yvonne Rydin and enquiries can be made to

   Y.Rydin@lse.ac.uk or [11]environ.policy@lse.ac.uk Further details can be found at

   [12]http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/CEPG/

   Among two of the first public events organised by the Centre are:

   - a talk by the Canadian Ambassador for the Environment on Canada's approach to sustainable
   development (at 1.00pm on Thursday 20th November in D302 at LSE); and

   - a debate on GMOs and agricultural policy with a panel comprising Michael Meacher, Ben
   Gill, Chris Pollack, George Gaskell and Tim Dyson (at 6.30pm on Thurday 27th November in
   the Old Theatre at LSE).

   All are welcome


   7. EARTHSCAN HAS A NEW HOME

   Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and
   Development, and for the last 12 years we have been a subsidiary of Kogan Page, a publisher
   of business and management books. Earthscan has now joined forces with James & James, an
   environmental technology publisher in order to create a more focused, dynamic and effective
   publisher on environmental and development issues. Earthscan staff and operations will all
   shortly be moving to the J&J offices in Camden, London. Earthscan plan to expand their
   publishing to meet the demands of the constituencies they serve through the range of media
   that J&J already publish in, and which include directories and reference works, journals
   and magazines, as well as books.

   If you would like to receive future announcements from Earthscan, including new titles and
   special offers, please ensure that you are on our e-newsletter mailing list by subscribing
   at [13]www.earthscan.co.uk


   8. 'HAPPINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY' - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HEALTH & SOCIETY UCL

   2003 Seminar Series

   Monday 1 December 5.00pm

   RSVP attendance essential

   Richard Layard, Director of the Programme on Well-Being, London School of Economics

   Abstract: Despite economic growth, longer holidays and better health, happiness has
   stagnated in Britain over the last 50 years. The main reason has been excessive focus on
   incentives for individual wealth creation and inadequate focus on the practical ways in
   which misery can be reduced and happiness increased. Policy implications include the
   following.

   I. Since much income generation is aimed at improving relative income (a zero-sum game),
   taxation is less inefficient than is usually supposed.

   II. Far more resources should go on treating mental illness, and on related research.

   III. There is no need to increase mobility, which increases crime and damages families.

   IV. Excessive individualism generates anxiety and should be replaced by a new commitment to
   the common good (ie the greatest happiness of all).

   V. Social science research should be refocused towards explaining happiness and what we can
   do to affect it.

   RSVP seminar attendance by 28/11/03, E-mail: [14]ichs@public-health.ucl.ac.uk

   (indicating any special needs and for directions to the seminar room)

   See also [15]www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology


   9. SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 04 - C A LL F O R P A P E R S
   Creating and developing sustainable and responsible new business models
   Towards Sustainable Product Design 9
   9th International Conference
   25th - 26th October 2004
   Bush Hotel, Farnham, Surrey, UK
   Conference topics
   Sustainable Innovation 04 welcomes conceptual and research-based papers
   covering sustainable and responsible business innovation in the context of
   a range of issues:
   * Market development
   * Technology development
   * New business models
   * Entrepreneurship
   * Stimulating innovation
   * Products and service development
   * Product Service Systems (PSS)
   * Marketing and communications
   * Business development
   * Co-development
   * Network management
   Living laboratory
   Sustainable Innovation 04 welcomes blue-sky, thought-provoking, radical concepts and ideas
   with an emphasis on new business models rather than solutions focused on 'business as
   usual'. Submission details: please email, fax or post 500 words describing your proposed
   paper by 31st January 2004. The paper will then be sent to the Advisory Board for
   evaluation and authors will be given feedback by the end of February.
   Living laboratory: please email, fax or post 2 pages that a) visualise, b) describe your
   proposed sustainable business, product, service or PSS concept and c) outline the
   financial, social and environmental impacts (both positive and negative) of your idea.
   Please send your outline by 31st January 2004. Proposals will then be sent to the Advisory
   Board for evaluation and feedback will be returned by the end of February with successful
   entrants asked to present their concepts at the event. A template will be downloadable from
   [16]www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd9
   For full details of this call for papers see: [17]www.cfsd.org.uk
   10. SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION SEMINAR: 'SHARING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PUBLIC SPACES
   Speaker: Rt. Hon Alun Michael, MP
   Tuesday 11th December 2003, 1-2.30 pm
   Social Market Foundation, 11 Tufton Street, London SW1
   On launching the Defra consultation document earlier this year, Alun Michael remarked that
   'successful, thriving and prosperous communities are characterized by streets, parks and
   open spaces that are clean safe and attractive.tackling failure such as litter graffiti,
   etc is for many the top public service priority'. In this seminar, he will be looking at
   how government, business, the voluntary sector and other interested parties
   can collaborate in making our public spaces 'fit for habitation'.

   To attend this seminar contact Annette Bullen, at the Social Market Foundation on 020 7227
   4401 or email [18]abullen@smf.co.uk
   11. Policy Studies Institute job opportunities

   A wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Westminster

   Environmental Policy Research

   Research Fellow: 21,379-32,424 pa incl LWA

   Research Officer: 19,139-24,804 pa incl LWA

   The Policy Studies Institute Institute (PSI), one of Britains leading social and economic
   research institutes, is expanding its Environment Group. The Group is led by Professor Paul
   Ekins and includes Professor Jim Skea, Director of the Institute.  The Group takes a
   problem-focused, interdisciplinary approach. The approach to research is team-based,
   problem-focused and interdisciplinary.  Successful candidates will be appointed to the
   Institutes permanent staff and may work on a number of different projects.

   We are making two types of appointment. We are looking for a Research Fellow with
   quantitative analytical skills relating to the environment and sustainable development,
   especially those linking energy, the environment and the economy, such as econometrics,
   inputoutput analysis and energy-environment modelling. This person would be expected to
   work initially on a European project addressing the implications for industrial
   competitiveness of environmental tax reform (COMETR).

   The other appointment will be for a Research Officer to work on a project which is being
   taken forward as part of the Sustainable Hydrogen Economy Consortium (SHEC), one of four
   such consortia funded over four years by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
   Council (EPSRC). The work will entail keeping up to date with developments in all aspects
   of development in hydrogen technology, contributing to the characterisation of that
   technology and helping to develop scenarios that envisage it becoming a major fuel. The
   work will also entail some basic project administration. Other work packages in the project
   will be developed as the Consortium timetable unfolds.

   We are looking for people with broad research experience and quantitative skills relating
   to environmental economics and/or policies. The Research Fellow will have a post-graduate
   degree in a relevant subject, or a good first degree and several years research experience.
   The Research Officer will have a good first degree in a relevant discipline and may also
   have a post-graduate qualification.

   For an application form and further details, visit [19]www.psi.org.uk or contact Hilary
   Salter, Policy Studies Institute, 100 Park Village East, London NW1 3SR, Tel:
   020-7468-2219, e-mail: [20]salterh@psi.org.uk.  Informal enquiries should initially be made
   via Hilary Salter. Closing date: 5pm Friday 5 December 2003


   12. CORPORATE PROGRAMMES OFFICER AT EARTHWATCH EUROPE

   Earthwatch has an active programme working with the corporate sector, aiming to promote
   awareness of, and action on, environmental and sustainability issues throughout companies
   and their employees. We  engage with senior corporate mangers, hold a series of events,
   produce publications and playing the role of an informed 'stakeholder' in our member
   companies. We are working on a portfolio of projects and partnerships to support and
   promote corporate action for biodiversity on an international scale.

   We are looking for an bright and highly motivated team player with an interest in corporate
   social responsibility and environmental sustainability to work in our Corporate Programmes
   team. Applicants should be able to demonstrate an ability to work with partner and donor
   organisations at a range of levels, and have an understanding of the interface between the
   private and NGO sector. The ability to juggle multiple projects and meet deadlines is
   important, as are IT and admin skills. The role will require hands-on management of ongoing
   activities, as well as taking part in developing Earthwatch's overall role within the
   corporate sector. Candidates must have excellent written and spoken English and a second
   European language would be an advantage.

   This is a permanent full time position with opportunities for the right person to develop
   significantly within the role.

   Location: Oxford, UK

   Salary: 19,000 (tbc)

   Application deadline: Thursday 27th November

   Send CV to: David Davies, Personnel Officer   ddavies@earthwatch.org.uk

   Tel: +44 (0)1865 318874


   13. HEAD, TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR IPCC

   45,257 -67,885

   Permanent post (or possibly a 4-year secondment)at the Met Office,Exeter

   The Met Office is the UK s national meteorological service, providing weather
   forecasts,observations, limate and environmental data for a variety of customers.

   The Met Office s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research is seeking a senior
   scientist with excellent management and organisational abilities to lead the Technical

   Support Unit for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
   (IPCC).This unit has the responsibility for co-ordinating international teams of experts

   in the preparation of IPCC assessment reports of knowledge on impacts, adaptation and
   vulnerability to climate change. IPCC assessment reports are accepted worldwide as one of

   the most authoritative sources of information on climate change for policy makers and
   experts in academia, government and industry. Fields of particular relevance include:
   water, health, agriculture and biodiversity; experience in climate impacts/adaptation in
   one or more of these and other areas would be essential. You must have: a good degree in a
   relevant scientific subject and a PhD,or equivalent post-graduate research experience, in
   at least two or more aspects of climate change impacts assessment or adaptation to climate
   change;

   at least 10 years experience in both management and research, including at least 2 years at
   the international level. The Met Office offers a choice of final salary and stakeholder

   pensions, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best. Career
   prospects for non-UK nationals may be limited. Staff have a mobility commitment. The Met
   Office is

   an Equal Opportunities employer. Visit our web site [21]www.metoffice.com

   The closing date for applications is 21 November 2003.

   Interviews will be held during December 2003.

   Application forms and further information:

   Capita RAS Innovation Court New Street

   Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 7JB

   Tel:01325 745500 (24 hours) [22]www.capitaras.co.uk

   Please quote reference B7407


   14. INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

   Junior Research Fellow: Community Energy Initiatives

   11,962 - 21,125 pa (appointment likely to be made from 17,624 - 20,311 pa)

   Pay award pending

   Fixed Term for two years, commencing January 2004 or as soon as feasible thereafter

   The Institute is a founder member of the prestigious Faraday Partnership for Integration of
   New and Renewable Energy in Buildings and seeks to make a worthwhile and significant
   contribution to sustainable development through multidisciplinary research, consultancy and
   learning provision.

   A highly motivated social scientist is required to play a leading role in the ESRC
   Sustainable Technologies Programme project Community Energy Initiatives: Embedding
   Sustainable Technology at the Local Level. This project involves collaboration between De
   Montfort University, Staffordshire University and the University of Northumbria and is
   supported by a range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations.

   Your role will be to evaluate the role of community initiatives in the embedding of
   sustainable energy technologies in the UK. You will examine the emergence of
   community-orientated programmes within national policy, the conditions under which
   different forms of community energy project have been developed, the interpretation of
   'community' within these initiatives (including more dispersed 'communities of interest'),
   the extent to which aims and outcomes are being achieved and the factors promoting and
   obstructing their success.

   Candidates will have good undergraduate and preferably post-graduate degrees in a relevant
   social science discipline (preferably psychology, geography, politics, sociology or
   environmental studies). Expertise and experience in the use of both qualitative and
   quantitative methods are essential. Knowledge or experience of social and behavioural
   aspects of energy, community processes and the uptake of new technologies, are also
   desirable.

   Application forms and further details are available from:

   The Human Resources Team

   De Montfort University

   The Gateway

   Leicester LE1 9BH

   Tel: 0116 250 6433 (24 hours answerphone)

   To apply on line visit our website: [23]http://www.dmu.ac.uk

   Please Quote Ref: 2978

   Closing Date: 1 December 2003 and Interviews will be held on 9 December 2003


   15. MARIE CURIE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

   Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is welcoming applications from doctoral students
   wishing to develop their studies in the analysis of environmental policies within the
   framework of the Marie Curie Training Site bursaries. FEEM is a non-profit, non-partisan
   research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable
   development. Deadline for sending applications: 08 December 2003
   [24]www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Conferences/Programmes/mariecurie.htm


   16. RESEARCHER - THE CLIMATE GROUP/CONFERENCE OF THE REDUCERS

   Researcher Weybridge, Surrey, UK

   The Climate Group (working title) is a new non-profit organisation currently in the
   start-up phase.  Founded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund following a successful Conference
   of the Reducers meeting in the Hague earlier this year, the organisation will seek to
   catalyse action among governments and companies to address the challenge of global climate
   change.  The organisation will achieve this through the promotion of peer networking among
   the leading entities (government and corporate) on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the
   identification and documenting of best practice in an accessible form, advocacy and
   communications initiatives. The organisation, which has received considerable interest from
   prospective member organisations, partners and funders, will hold a London launch event in
   early 2004 and a second major Conference of the Reducers in Toronto in May 2004 (in
   partnership with the City of Toronto). We are now looking for a highly motivated researcher
   to support this exciting new initiative.  It is envisaged that the role will involve the
   following tasks.

               Research into current leaders in the field of emissions reductions at corporate
   and national/state/local/city government level;

              Tracking climate change initiatives and developments globally;

              Assistance in maintaining a contact database of member organisations and key
   stakeholders;

              Compilation of a series of case studies covering examples of best practice in
   reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to form the basis of a How to resource for policymakers
   and corporate officers globally;

              Compilation of a series of guides to technological, energy efficiency and policy
   solutions to climate change;

              Responding to information requests from member organisations;

              Producing material for the organisations website and reports; and

              Contribute to the demands of running a small organisation in a dynamic,
   fast-moving environment.

   The ideal candidate will be team-oriented, personable, organised and numerate with
   excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Education to Masters level in a
   relevant environmental field, 1 to 3 years relevant work experience and a sound
   understanding of climate change issues are also desirable. Knowledge of MS Office
   Applications, particularly Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Lotus Notes is an asset.
   Language skills are also an advantage for this role.

   Based on experience, the position will offer competitive remuneration including travel loan
   and pension benefits. Interested candidates should in the first instance send or e-mail a
   CV and covering note outlining details of current remuneration to: Jim Walker, Operations
   Manager, The Climate Group, Abbey House, Wellington Way, Weybridge KT13 0TT. E-mail
   [25]jim@reducers.org.

   Deadline for applications: 25th November 2003.


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