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The danger lies in obscuring the real issues
The danger lies in obscuring the real issuesDavid Ballard

This short article, which highlights some of the limitations of triple bottom line reporting, appeared in the European Business Forum / International Herald Tribune Special Issue on Sustainable Development, 2nd September, 2002.
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Learning for Sustainable Development
Learning for Sustainable DevelopmentDavid Ballard

First drafted in August 2004 and revised for publication in December 2004, and so building on early insights from our work with the ESPACE partnership, this is a pre-publication version of an article which appeared in the journal Action Research in June 2005. It is one of the first summaries of our views as to what is needed for effective change for environmental sustainability and summarises a number of the issues on which we have been working since.
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Moving to reporting for sustainability
Moving to reporting for sustainabilityDavid Ballard

This keynote speech on moving from reporting for environmental improvement to reporting on sustainable development was given to a European rail industry conference in Rome, 19th September, 2002.
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ESPACE behaviour report Volume 1
ESPACE behaviour report Volume 1David Ballard and ABL colleagues

This 2005 report was written for the European Spatial Planning: Adapting to Climate Events (ESPACE) Consortium. It was commissioned by Hampshire County Council in 2004 to explore how local authorities might influence behaviour change to facilitate more effective responses to climate change. The research findings apply to both the adaptation and mitigation agendas. Volume 2 includes much of the supporting evidence and is available from the ESPACE website.
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An Interview with the Chair of the IPCC
An Interview with the Chair of the IPCCSusan Ballard

This was one of the first interviews with Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after his controversial appointment (with the support of the Bush administration) to replace Dr Bob Watson. It was first published on Oxford University's changingclimate website in 2002 and was the basis of an article, "Keeping the Bush Fires Burning" which was later published in the Guardian newspaper.
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Interview with Professor Steve Rayner
Interview with Professor Steve RaynerDavid Ballard

Steve Rayner is Oxford University's Professor of Science and Society at the Said Business School. As the Joint Editor of the 4-volume book 'Human Choice and Climate Change, Steve is also one of the most respected, if sometimes controversial, commentators on the sociological aspects of climate change. As a member of the IPCC, he takes the view that the Kyoto process is unlikely to be effective and speaks in favour of work on adaptation as a route to wider change. This interview with David Ballard covers these issues and his views on what the 'cargo cults' and 'millenarians' have to teach us about climate change responses. It was first published on Oxford University's changingclimate website in 2002.
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Leadership and the Environmental Crisis
Leadership and the Environmental CrisisDavid Ballard

Speech given to the Environment Agency's Anglian Region, 17th July 1997. This well-received speech was one of the earliest occasions on which the parallel between people's blocked responses to serious environmental issues and many people's response to bereavement or death was remarked upon.
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