United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Promoting health and well-being through physical education partnerships

The United Nations recently approved the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which forms a guideline policy for all nations. While the UN have strongly advised that partnerships are essential for the implementation of these global goals, within local communities there is little evidence of how this is best done or what it looks like in practice. This paper shares a health and wellbeing community initiative that achieves goals three and four of the SDGs, and in doing so models how to implement physical education partnerships as advocated by the UN. The highly successful innovative initiative is “Best Start: A community collaborative approach to lifelong health and wellness” (2011–2014).This paper shares a health and wellbeing partnership, modelling implementation of physical education (PE) advocated by the United Nations (UN). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exemplifies global efforts towards equality, specifically Goal 3 and 4 address health and wellbeing. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into cross sector “partnerships”, identified as essential for the implementation of the SDGs. This is significant as the UN acknowledge a present gap of information on partnerships in action and a need for reporting from the ground level. The project “Best Start: A community collaborative approach to lifelong health and wellness”, began as a partnership between a university and nearby schools and quickly grew to involve Australian Registered Training Organisations, the local health industry, Education departments and sport governing bodies. The collaborations involved pre-service teachers teaching Health and PE lessons to children in a disadvantaged socio-economic area, creating valuable learning experiences for stakeholders. Local and global communities were involved in research and reform. The project creatively optimised resources available through state, Australian and international connections. International partnerships enabled identification of unique contextual opportunities. Programme planning was strengthened with data gathered from an England and Wales Ofsted awarded Primary Physical Education course. Various methods, including; semi-structured interviews, reflective journal, observations, document analysis, and Student Evaluation of Teaching Units (SETU) were adopted. SETU is valid and reliable data collected by the university for the purposes of research. The findings support that partnerships enable SDG implementation and the research paper offers direction for localisation

Creative Compliance, Constructive Compliance: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Criminal Entrepreneur

Purpose While corporations may embrace the concepts of social and environmental responsibility, numerous examples exist to show corporations claiming to act sustainably and responsibly, while simultaneously showing disregard for the communities in which they operate and causing considerable environmental damage. This chapter argues that such activities illustrate a particular notion of Baumol’s (1990) criminal entrepreneurialism where both creative and constructive compliance combine to subvert environmental regulation and its enforcement. Design/methodology/approach This chapter employs a case study approach assessing the current corporate environmental responsibility landscape against the reality of corporate environmental offending. Its case study shows seemingly repeated environmental 'offending' by Shell Oil against a backdrop of the company claiming to have integrated environmental monitoring and scrutiny into its operating procedures. Findings The chapter concludes that corporate assertion of environmental credentials is itself often a form of criminal entrepreneurship where corporations embrace voluntary codes of practice and self-regulation while internally promoting the drive for success and profitability and/or avoidance of the costs of true environmental compliance deemed too high. As a result this chapter argues that responsibility for environmental damage requires regulation to ensure corporate responsibility for environmental damage. Originality/value The chapter employs a green criminological perspective to its analysis of corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship. Thus it considers not just strict legal definitions of crime and criminal behaviour but also the overlap between the legal and the illegal and the preference of Governments to use administrative or civil penalties as tools to deal with corporate environmental offending

Sustainable management by the Commonwealth of water resources

On 20 August 2009 the Senate instructed the Standing Committee on Environment and Communications to inquire and report on the ability of the Commonwealth, across state borders, to sustainably manage water resources in the national interest, with particular reference to: a) the issuing, and sustainability of water licences under any government draft resource plans and water resource plans; b) the effect of relevant agreements and Commonwealth environmental legislation on the issuing of water licences, trading rights or further extraction of water from river systems; c) the collection, collation and analysis and dissemination of information about Australia\u27s water resources, and the use of such information in the granting of water rights; d) the issuing of water rights by the states in light of Commonwealth purchases of water rights; and e) any other related matters. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan must be based on the best available science, and a precautionary approach is needed, according to this Senate committee report.&nbsp

The koala – saving our national icon

This report examines the committee\u27s inquiry into the status, health and sustainability of one of Australia\u27s most loved and iconic native animals – the koala. The committee was surprised by the complexity of this multifaceted issue. Many features and factors influence Australia\u27s koala population. For instance in some areas (such as Queensland\u27s Mulga  Lands) their population is in sharp decline, whilst in others (such as Kangaroo Island in South Australia) their numbers are being actively managed because of an overabundance and resulting over-browsing. A key challenge is the paucity of data on the national koala population. The koala\u27s diversity is another aspect of added complexity, with northern  koalas being far more diverse than their southern cousins. The range of threats is also varied, for example habitat loss, disease and motor vehicle strikes. As a result there are no easy solutions.   The duration and level of interest generated  by this inquiry is an indication of the complexity of the issues raised. On four occasions the committee extended its reporting timeframe in order to gather more evidence and to conclude its deliberations. Image: stephbond / flickr &nbsp

Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2007 and Radio Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2007

The strong growth of digital technology over the past decade has resulted in a requirement for broadcasting services to convert from analogue to digital technology. While provision has been made for the transfer of television broadcasts to digital, until now no provision had been made for the transfer of radio broadcasting. The transition to digital is arguable the most important strategic issue facing Australian radio since the introduction of Frequency Modulated (FM) services in the 1970s and early 1980s. Radio broadcasting has an established and unique position in the Australian media landscape. It is the most ubiquitous of all media, being found in virtually every home, car and workplace in the country. Digitisation is transforming all media and communications sectors, enabling the delivery of a common range of audio-visual, entertainment and information services to an increasingly more engaged, demanding and fragmented audience. This is no more evident than in radio, where evolving digital technologies, such as MP3 players and iPods – are changing listening patterns and re-shaping the way audio content is created, distributed and listened to. Submissions to this inquiry were very supportive of the bill\u27s intent and the majority of its provisions. Broadcasters generally were positive about the capabilities that the new digital medium will give them in terms of content and new services

Interstate waste and flow control : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on S. 1194, a bill to impose certain limitations on the receipt of out-of-state municipal solid waste, to authorize state and local controls over the flow of municipal solid waste, [and] S. 2034, a bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to improve certain limits on the receipt of out-of-state municipal solid waste, March 20, 2002.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.Shipping list no.: 2004-0152-P."Printed for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet

Clean Air Act : risks from greenhouse gas emissions : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on the economic and environmental risks associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, March 13, 2002.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.Shipping list no.: 2004-0155-P."Printed for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet

Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009 : report (to accompany S. 1498) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

Shipping list no.: 2009-0413-P."July 22, 2009."Caption title.Mode of access: Internet

Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2010 : report (to accompany S. 2724) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

"June 21, 2010."Shipping list no.: 2010-0319-P.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet