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UBGMF9-15-M - Sustainable Development: Principles and Practice

The brief

This assessment requires you to provide a succinct overview of sustainable development within EITHER the city of Bristol OR the healthcare sector in the UK. You will review relevant contextual documents and strategies in order to critically evaluate the contributions which cities or the healthcare sector can make to achieving sustainable development as well the extent to which city of Bristol or the UK healthcare sector are making their contribution. You will consider whether sufficient monitoring exists to adequately assess the current state of sustainable development within Bristol or the UK healthcare sector and identify the existence of significant data gaps which may prevent robust evaluation of the current situation. In the case of both contexts you will need to select one framework or model of sustainable development to use as your point of reference.

Cities are increasingly seen as key actors in achieving sustainable development, especially by the United Nations. The New Urban Agenda outlines a vision of cities which are ‘just, safe, healthy, accessible, affordable, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements to foster prosperity and quality of life for all' (United Nations, 2017, p5). Bristol is more active than most cities in considering its role in ensuring achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bristol City Council have supported the production of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of Progress (one of the first in the world) and has produced an initial assessment of alignment between its own One City Plan and the SDGs and their sub targets. The city benefits from a SDG Alliance of individuals and organisations committed to the SDGs. However, there remains a need to rapidly progress action towards more sustainable forms of development.

The healthcare sector is multifaceted and sits at the nexus of multiple sustainable development issues. Many goals and targets within the SDGs are centred on health and wellbeing and the operation of healthcare services has numerous environmental, social and economic impacts. The UN Global Compact SDG Industry Matrix for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector report provides an overview of these relationships. The NHS Sustainable Development Unit has been working to promote sustainable healthcare within the UK and produced a Sustainable Development Strategy for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care System in 2014. The Strategy has been replaced with the new (Nov 2020) NHS Net Zero Plan. Progress has been made towards reducing the environmental impact of healthcare in the UK but there is some way to go before the full potential of the healthcare sector to be acting primarily for sustainable development is realised.

Discuss significant indicators and metrics which are needed to monitor progress in achieving sustainable development in either Bristol or the healthcare sector and identify any problematic gaps which you feel currently exist in data sets or monitoring processes. Use freely available statistics and data sets for this, please do not contact Bristol City Council or the NHS for data or information.

You will identify no more than three recommendations to Bristol City Council or the NHS as to potentially useful changes to their thinking which would enable them to contribute in more holistic way to sustainable development. Remember to keep your discussion relevant to city or sector/industry level, not organisational. Alternatively, you may have recommendations relating to data and monitoring which you feel are particularly critical for effective

and robust decision-making and action to be undertaken. You should identify your recommendations clearly and each one should flow logically on from your preceding discussion, thus needing little introduction. You may wish to consider one recommendation each for the short-term, medium-term and long term or make recommendations relevant to different stakeholder groups. This is likely to be the section where you have greatest opportunity to demonstrate creativity and innovation. You should use theoretical ideas and evidence of likely success (such as implementation elsewhere/ in other contexts) to inform your proposals so that your reader, or potentially ‘client' (Bristol City Council or the NHS) has confidence in your recommendations.

The report should end with a strong conclusion. It should synthesise key elements of your report, potentially making new connections as you draw together the different elements of the report and elaborate on the significance of your main observations and recommendations.

Format
You are required to present your findings in a project report to include the following:
A. Table of Contents
B. Introduction
C. Critical summary of core document linked to chosen topic
D. Monitoring and data
E. Recommendations
F. Conclusion
G. References

The report should include numbered headings/sub-headings and page numbers. If you are unsure how to do this, you can find a video tutorial via Lynda.Com. This is an online video training portal that you have free access to as a UWE student. Go to LinkedIn Learning via the following link and then put "create a report in word" into the search engine. This is just a recommendation.

Attachment:- Sustainable Development Principles.rar