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Tracey will lead UCC research for the Horizon 2020 project JUSTNORTH!
Congratulations Tracey! We are delighted to announce that our colleague, Dr. Tracey Skillington, will lead UCC Research for the Horizon 2020 project JUSTNORTH. This is an exciting 15 partner project focused on developing a new evaluation framework to assess how principles of democratic justice for the Arctic region are best combined with those of sustainable development.
JUSTNORTH (‘Towards Just Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies’), funded under the Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials 2018-2020 Programme
Dr Tracey Skillington will lead UCC research for the Horizon 2020 project JUSTNORTH (‘Towards Just Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies’), funded under the Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials 2018-2020 Programme. This is an exciting 15 partner project focused on developing a new evaluation framework to assess how principles of democratic justice for the Arctic region are best combined with those of sustainable development. Through a series of linked empirical case studies and policy reflective exercises, it will assess how different economic, socio-cultural and environmental activities in diverse regions of the Arctic align with UN goals of sustainable development. Its findings will be used to devise a new JUSTscore assessment tool to evaluate the weaknesses and strengths of existing policy mechanisms and to identify ways in which regulatory pathways for promoting sustainable development in the Arctic can be strengthened, in line with IPCC recommendations.