Note: Panelists at the “Mainstreaming ecosystem health, and equity lens into all evaluations” session during the 4th Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development, Washington, DC, 5–7 March 2024.
Core to the work of the Academy is
recognising our home as part of Nature, to be safeguarded and regenerated, not
seeing people and the planet as resources to be exploited. The result of the
dominant exploitative mindset is climate and ecosystem degradation, extreme
inequality, and conflict. Key is also safeguarding the rights of Indigenous
Peoples who are critical stewards of ecosystems, and promoting the Rights of
Nature.
We do not yet have a working group
focusing on equity and environmental sustainability, but it is a recurring
theme in our exploration and action learning, and some of our publications. It
also emerges strongly in the 3 Horizons work.
Some of our publications around this include:
- Many articles in the
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Paradigm-Based
Evaluation for Eco-Just Systems Transformation. Authors
Beverly A. Parsons, Katherine Winters
- Chapters of the GEF Book Batra, G, Uitto,
J.I., & Spearman, M.A., (eds),
2025 forthcoming, ‘Integrating for Sustainability: Evaluation Across
Environmental and Socioeconomic Domains’, Springer. :
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Chapter 11: Shifting
Power and Perspectives in Evaluation Systems to Address the Polycrisis
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Chapter 12: How
can evaluations support a socially just transition to planetary
- In addition, there are articles around this theme
in the new JMDE Special Edition on Evaluation for the Transformational
Imperative