The Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment Jim Longhurst Professor of Environmental Science Judy Orme Reader in Public Health

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The Institute for Sustainability, Health and
EnvironmentJim Longhurst Professor of
Environmental Science Judy OrmeReader in
Public Health
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The Vision for ISHE

• Bringing the resources, capacity and capability
  of a leading University to address some of the
  most intractable yet urgent problems facing
  humanity and the planet
• Seeking to integrate and direct our academic
  research and knowledge exchange activities to
  deliver diagnosis and sustainable solutions to
  real world health and environmental problems
• Providing critical research resources spanning
  the academic disciplines yet skilled in multi and
  inter disciplinary approaches,
• Deploying pro sustainability behaviour change
  methodologies
• Acting at the critical nexus of science,
  behaviour and policy
• One-stop dynamic which facilitates generation of
  unique and challenging spaces where different
  expertise and professionals can discuss and
  debate with aim of generating creative
  interdisciplinary approaches which can only be
  done through shared analysis

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A Healthy Planet ?

• Living within environmental limits
• Because the world is on an unsustainable
  trajectory
• Global population rising by approximately 80
  million a year
• Global population 6.8 billion today, 9 million
  by 2030
• An increasingly urbanised population
• Because the worlds population has unequal access
  to resources
• Food consumption 3.5 billion tonnes in 2030, a
  50 increase in production needed to meet this
  demand.
• Fresh water per head 17000 cubic metres per
  capita 1950, 2030 only 4000, with half used in
  agriculture.
• Predicted energy use in 2030 17014 MTOE, only
  7223 MTOE in 1980
• A changing climate exacerbating all of these
  adverse trends

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A Healthy Population?

• Because many people in the world have to live in
  a relatively poor state of health
• 1.1 billion people surviving on less than 1 per
  day of income. 70 in rural areas where they are
  highly dependent on ecosystem services
• Inequality has increased over the past decade.
  During the 1990s, 21 countries experienced
  declines in their rankings in the Human
  Development Index
• An estimated 852 million people were
  undernourished in 200002, up 37 million from the
  period 199799
• Some 1.1 billion people still lack access to
  improved water supply, and more than 2.6 billion
  lack access to improved sanitation.
• Water scarcity affects roughly 12 billion people
  worldwide
• Healthy and diverse populations and communities
  are more likely to be sustainable communities.

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Health Impacts of Environmental Challenges

• Water pollution sanitation and clean water
  supply arguably the most important public health
  advance in developed countries.
• Air pollution
• Land contamination
• Waste disposal
• Population growth and urbanisation pressures
• Changing climate - new opportunities for pathogen
  migration

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Behaviour Change for a Healthy Planet and a
Healthy Population

• Recognising and responding to the scientific
  challenges but recognising that changing
  behaviour is the only real solution.
• Change embodied by the recognition that we can no
  longer contemplate the resource demands of an EU
  lifestyle for all requiring the equivalent of the
  resources of 3 planets.
• Change embodied by the recognition that we can
  wisely steward the resources of one healthy
  planet and its healthy population

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The Health Map Barton, H. Grant, M A tool
for interpretation and analysis.
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Rising to the Challenge

• Because where knowledge of solutions is available
  resources to deploy it are often scarcest
• The challenge is NOT knowledge alone but is
  equally found in the challenge of helping
  individuals, communities, organisations and
  societies to recognise the challenges of a
  changing and unsustainable behaviour pattern, to
  adapt to a changing world and to adopt
  sustainable expectations, consumption patterns
  and lifestyles.
• We begin - but dont end - with the University's
  student population who we are training to be the
  next generation of thinkers and leaders.

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The Vision for ISHE

• Because we want to make a difference locally,
  nationally and internationally
• We are mobilising and directing the
  intellectual and physical resources of the
  University to support pro sustainability
  behaviours
• We expect that this will lead to behaviour
• Change in ourselves
• Change in partners
• Change in practices
• Change in policy
• Change in communities and the professions

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The ISHE Strategy

• Research
• Knowledge Exchange
• Public Engagement
• Programme Development
• A four point strategy to deliver excellence in
  all we do.

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The ISHE Capability - HEAT and HEIF

• HEAT _at_ UWE
• An early win to link technology, health and
  environment
• EPSRC Research Council recognition c0.6 million
  - changing the way we work
• HEIF
• Using our change methodologies to help
  organisations understand and adopt pro
  sustainability behaviours
• Providing leadership support for ESD
• Providing training, CPD and professional
  development opportunities
• c150k of third stream funding

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University Investment

• Education for Sustainable Development
• Healthy University
• Index of Sustainability, Health and Environment
• Total ISHE foundation resources 0.8m

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The ISHE Expertise

• The expertise to deliver a vision and strategy
• Integration of assets for multi/inter
  disciplinary approaches
• Clear direction
• Momentum for change
• Leadership of change
• Demonstrable capability and capacity.
• Sensitive and responsive to partnership
  opportunities
• Responsive to market demands
• Forging distinctive approaches for solving
  intractable problems.

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Who we are

• 18 research centres and units form the core of
  ISHE offering niche specialisms across the
  disciplinary terrain.
• Together these offer a synergy of multi and inter
  disciplinary competency, capacity and capability.
  
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and
  Urban Policy is central to the vision for ISHE
  working closely with WHO Europe in driving
  forward the ISHE agenda.
• ISHE staff have received funding from BBSRC,
  EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, Government Departments in UK
  and overseas, charitable bodies and the private
  sector.

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Capacity and Capability of ISHEniche specialisms
and synergistic whole

• Air Quality Management Resource Centre
• Centre for Clinical and Health Services Research
• Centre for Environment and Planning
• Centre, for Leisure, Tourism and Society
• Centre for Public Health Research
• Centre for Research in Analytical, Materials and
  Sensors
• Centre for Research in Biomedicine
• Centre for Research in Environmental Sciences
• Centre for Research in Plant Science
• Centre for Social Marketing
• Centre for the Study of Sustainable Building
• Centre for Transport and Society
• Cities Research Centre
• Construction and Property Research Centre
• Geography Research unit
• Science Communication Unit
• SOLAR
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Cities and
  Urban Policy

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RAE World Class Research Profile
103.4 FTE staff 8 UoAs
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Supporting UWE in achieving its sustainability
goals

• A Sustainable UWE
• A Healthy UWE
• A curriculum for a healthy sustainable world and
  education of citizens and the leadership
  generation of tomorrow
• RKE delivering diagnosis and solutions to real
  world problems
• Using our budget to deliver sustainable
  development through all our activities
• Influencing policy and practice locally,
  regionally, nationally, internationally

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A Sustainable UWE

• Sustainability Board
• Sustainability Strategy
• Responsibility and accountability
• Embedding Sustainability at senior management and
  Governor level
• Communication with staff, students and other
  stakeholders
• Training and development
• Management of Sustainability Impact Areas

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Education for Sustainable Development

• A cross UWE Internal Knowledge Exchange Network
  entitled Knowledge Exchange for Sustainability
  Education.
• Leading the Universitys response to the UN
  Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
• A Baseline Study of the University's Modular
  Provision for ESD.
• 10 cross cutting recommendations for a systematic
  UWE engagement with ESD.
• Recommendations accepted by the Sustainability
  Board and an Action Plan for implementation
  produced.

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Healthy and Sustainable Communities Research and
Knowledge Exchange

• EPSRC Evaluation of the contribution of
  Sustainable New Developments to Sustainable
  lifestyles
• WHO Healthy Urban Planning Network
• Big Lottery Evaluation community projects
  contributing to Wellbeing in the South West
• Social inclusion, physical activity and
  neighbourhood design
• Food for Life Partnership
• Balanced Retirement Villages
• Moving On Impact of an arts project in a mental
  health care setting
• Southville Home Zone Evaluation Study

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Environmental limits and cyclesResearch and
Knowledge Exchange

• Assessment of the LA Air Quality Review and
  Assessment Procedure for Defra and Devolved
  Administrations
• Environmental exposure to Endotoxin Emissions
  from Commercial Composting Activities
• Water Quality and Environmental Geochemistry
• Consultation as Science Communication?
• Environmental Newsletter
• University of Sustainability Mexico?
• South Africa National Framework on Air Quality

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Behaviour Change and Participation Research and
Knowledge Exchange

• Public Understanding of Sustainable Transport
• ESRC and Academy for Sustainable Communities
  Assessing the practice and potential of situated
  social learning in the work of building
  sustainable communities
• Birmingham City Council Streets Ahead on Safety
• Dept for Transport - Making Personalised travel
  planning work
• Dept for Transport Neighbourhood Road Safety
  projects
• Understanding Sustainability in Schools
• Government Office South West - Workplace Health

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How can we work with you?

• Partnerships and Co-production of knowledge
• Research and knowledge Exchange
• KTPs
• Professional development and training
• Change management processes

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How will we know ISHE has made a difference?

• Change in ourselves for a healthy sustainable
  future
• Change in others for a healthy sustainable future
  
• External Partnerships and Networks for a healthy
  sustainable future
• Enhanced curriculum offering for a healthy
  sustainable future
• Advocacy for a healthy sustainable future
• Enterprise for a healthy sustainable future
• Public Engagement for a healthy sustainable
  future
• External recognition of our endeavours
• ISHE - complementary yet distinctive

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Conclusions

• The significant problems we face today cannot be
  solved at the same level of thinking we were at
  when we created them.
• As true today as when Albert Einstein first said
  it.

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Its the only one we have
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The End!