Tag: sustainability
New recommendations to help ensure a more sustainable future for UK fisheries in the post-Brexit era
An international team of scientists, including Professor Richard Barnes from the University of Lincoln, have produced new recommendations to help ensure a more sustainable future for UK fisheries in the post-Brexit era. To help ensure this opportunity is not lost, a team of academics representing international perspectives in natural resource…
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…
Lincoln Legal Experts Contribute to Important House of Lords Report
Professor Richard Barnes (Lincoln law School) and Professor Elizabeth Kirk (Professor of Global and Ecological Justice, Director of the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice) have made important contributions to a significant report published by the House of Lords on the law of the sea in the 21st century. On 1st…
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and the Rural Social Economy
The social economy is increasingly visible in LEP Local Industrial Strategies (LIS). A recent survey of the 31 rural ‘Shire’ LEPs suggests that 70% feel they embrace the social economy explicitly: a proportion corroborated by a desk study of their LISs. Sustainable principles are ubiquitous. Heart of the South West,…
Is Agri-Robotics the future of farming?
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report, How to feed the world in 2050, sets out the challenges for the global agri-food sector in stark detail. By 2050, the world’s population will have grown by over a third, reaching 9.1 billion people, with the vast majority of that growth coming…