Tag: climate change
The Lincoln Climate Commission: Creating Place-based Community Engagement and Policy Impact in Greater Lincolnshire
In response to the UK and local governments declaring a climate emergency (including Lincoln City Council in July 2019), public, private and third sector organisations across the city of Lincoln have established a Lincoln Climate Commission. Co-founded by the University of Lincoln, Transition Lincoln and Lincoln City Council, and formally…
New Social Economies: A Social Economic Strategy for Lincolnshire
Globally, new economic arrangements are gaining traction. The OECD ‘Better Life Index’ based around well-being indicators, eschews GDP growth and GVA productivity measures. It has been adapted in India (the ‘Ease of Living’ index) and Bhutan (GNH – Gross National Happiness). The Well-being Economy Governments Initiative (WEGI), begun in 2018,…
Mapping the future of malaria in Africa
According to World Health Organisation, nearly half of the world's population is at risk of malaria. In 2019, 94% of global cases of malaria and deaths caused by malaria were in Africa. Concerted national efforts have succeeded in cutting malaria mortality by 44% globally over the past decade, but some…