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.

4. RELATIONSHIPS Project Planning Policy

5. ENV. GEOSCIENCE CONCERNS Geological inputs for EIA or Site Audits Project

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

14. UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Landuse Planning Agency EXAMPLES OF INSTITUTIONS National Focal Points e.g.Ministry Project Planning Policy

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

24. Multi-lateral Agreements Action Plan/ Strategies Institutional Set-up Political Awareness HISTORICAL PROFILE: CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTER REDUCTION 2010 2000 1990 1980 1970 1975 1985 1995 2005 1990 1995 2001 BAPA MA 2007 KP IPCC 1999 2004 2005 ISDR UNEP/ WMD IDNDR IYPE HF UNFCC 1994 INCREASING INFLUENCE Scientific Intervention MDG

25. Multi-lateral Agreements Action Plan/ Strategies Institutional Set-up Political Awareness HISTORICAL PROFILE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 2010 2000 1990 1980 1970 1975 1985 1995 2005 IYPE Scientific Intervention INCREASING INFLUENCE UNCHS H2 WCED UNCED CtrHS CHS HA A21 CSD JPOI ‘ 02 ‘ 06 ‘ 04 MDG

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