Governance

You might be thinking...what does governance have to do with sustainability?

Developing a sustainable community, institution or society must address environmental, social, political, economic and cultural aspects. 'Governance' relates to the way in which we manage people, structures within insitutions, so in order to achieve this we must integrate 'good' governance practices.

The University of Brighton set up the Sustainable Development Policy Management Group in 2006-07, a high level group which is in the position to embed sustainable development in University governance, policy and beyond. The group delivers the University’s Sustainable Development Policy, is chaired by Deputy Vice-Chancellor Prof. Stuart Laing, and feeds into the university's Management Group.

The recent change in name to the Sustainable Development Management Group denotes a change from having an advisory to an actual management role, setting targets and monitoring progress in different areas.

Grassroots activities and opinions from staff and students can feed directly into the SDMG through the Sustainable Action Network. This is a powerful tool for marrying bottom-up and top-down change.

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Food growing at Falmer

Staff from the Falmer Sustainability Action Network have started their own campus allotment with help from the Springboard grants programme and Health Promoting University Project. 

Notes from SDMG meetings

2013 March
2012 October
2012 June
2012 March (195k pdf)
2011 October (39k pdf)
2011 June (35k pdf)
2011 March
(46k pdf)
2010 October (39k pdf)
2010 June (45k pdf)
2010 March (45k pdf)
2009 October (40k pdf)
2009 June (36k pdf)
2009 March (43k pdf)
2008 October (47k pdf)
2008 June (53k pdf)
2008 March (42k pdf)
2007 October (39k pdf)
2007 June
(51k pdf)
2007 March (44k pdf)
2006 November
(43k pdf)
2006 May (43k pdf)
2005 November (39k pdf)



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