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Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development
NESC has helped build consensus across diverse economic and social groups on the issue of housing. It has done so by creating a shared understanding and vision of the overall system, rooted in active and sustainable land use and development and commitment to permanent affordability. Past NESC Council, and Secretariat, work in this area and…
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Economy, Resilience & Vulnerability
This work focuses on the nature of the Irish economy, its underlying strengths, areas of vulnerability. It examines various ways in which resilience can be understood and framed, in the face of continuing turbulence and fundamental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Below is a short excerpt from Understanding the Irish Economy in a…
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Sustainable Development and Climate Action
The Council recognises the importance of Grounding the Recovery in Sustainable Development and supports a policy shift in ambition and action to reduce emissions and biodiversity loss. NESC has integrated sustainable development research with its core work programme to foster synergies and integration across environmental, social and economic sustainable development. We receive annual research funding…
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Shared Island
NESC has been undertaking, at the request of the Department of the Taoiseach, a programme of research to produce a comprehensive report on the Shared Island to inform the development of the Shared Island Initiative as a whole of Government priority. The most recent report, Exploring Shared Opportunities in the North West: Findings from Focus Groups,…
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Well-Being Framework
Following its work on Ireland’s Well-being Framework: Consultation Report, NESC began a second phase of work to support the development of a comprehensive well-being framework. The first area of work in this phase is: Towards Transformative Outcomes: Examples of how Well-being Frameworks have been Embedded into Policy Making. This research looks at how national well-being frameworks have…
