This document discusses improving environmental geoscience communication from a policy perspective. It outlines several key points:
1) Policy implementation involves multiple levels of government and sectors and considers both spatial and non-spatial scales.
2) Geoscience can provide important inputs for environmental impact assessments, land use planning, hazard prevention and more to support sustainability.
3) However, geoscience knowledge is often not effectively communicated or integrated into policymaking due to lack of awareness, failure to present data accessibly, and disconnects between international, national and local levels.
10. Governance is the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs (Commission on Global Governance, 1995) Governance encompasses the activities of governments but it also includes the many other channel through which ‘commands’ flow in the form of goals framed, directives issued and policies pursued (Rosenau 1995) GOVERNANCE
11. Accommodates the growing importance of non-state actors such as non-government organisations, community groups, corporations and other interest groups in policy-making. Simple coercive mechanisms are increasingly being broadened to include consensus building and other less direct or formal mechanisms. Good governance is emphasised as various interest groups navigate complementary and occasionally competitive functions in steering society towards agreed economic and environmental goals. GOVERNANCE
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14. UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Landuse Planning Agency EXAMPLES OF INSTITUTIONS National Focal Points e.g.Ministry Project Planning Policy
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17. Criteria for relevance:- From the perspective of geoscience organisations: Level of awareness Linkage with National Focal Points Intra-Ministerial Linkages Inter-Ministerial Linkages From Focal Point Reports: Level of geoscience inputs Effectiveness of communication RELEVANCE OF GEOSCIENCE
18. Climate Change Disaster Reduction Sustainable Development Human Settlements Geoheritage Conservation Contaminated Lands Enviromental Assessment Site Investigations Geohazard Assessment Soil /Peat Resources Ocean/ Marine Resources Groundwater Resources & Extraction Mineral Resources & Extraction Level of Geoscience Inputs Potential Inputs Reported by Focal Points
19. Climate Change Disaster Reduction Sustainable Development Human Settlements Geoheritage Conservation Contaminated Lands Enviromental Assessment Site Investigations Geohazard Assessment Soil /Peat Resources Ocean/ Marine Resources Groundwater Resources & Extraction Mineral Resources & Extraction Effectiveness of Communication Potential for Direct / Indirect Cmctn Acknowledged by Focal Points