scholarly journals Integrated Marine Management in the United Kingdom Overseas Territories

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Hardman ◽  
Hannah L. Thomas ◽  
Diane Baum ◽  
Elizabeth Clingham ◽  
Rhys Hobbs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Marine Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Overseas Territories

Like many small island communities, the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are directly dependent on their marine resources for a range of ecosystem services, such as income generation, subsistence, leisure, recreation and wellbeing. Healthy marine ecosystems also play a broader role in climate regulation, coastal resilience and habitat provision. With Blue Belt Programme assistance, the UKOTs are developing enhanced protection and sustainable management strategies for their marine environments, using an Integrated Marine Management (IMM) approach. This coordinates cross-sectoral planning and management to carefully balance marine conservation and sustainable use of resources in order to minimize socio-cultural and economic impacts to the local community. We describe the IMM approach taken in two UKOT case studies. In Ascension Island, a conservation planning and resource management process was initiated with an objective to protect at least 50% of Ascension’s waters from commercial fishing, resulting in the designation of one of the largest Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Southern Atlantic. In St Helena, a new licensing framework for marine developments was developed within an existing sustainable use MPA. From these two approaches, we highlight aspects of the process, lessons learned and recommendations that may be useful for other small islands planning to implement IMM, particularly regarding the importance of effective stakeholder engagement, coordination across different governance scales, and long-term financial resources.

scholarly journals Implementation and lessons learned from 2 online interprofessional faculty development programs for improving educational practice in the health professions in Chile and the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Cesar Orsini ◽  
Veena Rodrigues ◽  
Jorge Tricio
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The United Kingdom

This study presents the design, implementation, and lessons learned from 2 fit-for-purpose online interprofessional faculty development programs for educational practice improvement in the health professions in Chile and the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2021. Both programs were designed to enhance teaching and learning practices in an interprofessional environment based on 4 pillars: professional diversity, egalitarianism, blended/online learning, and active learning strategies. A multidisciplinary mix of educators participated, showing similar results. The 3 main lessons learned were that the following factors facilitated an interprofessional environment: a professions-inclusive teaching style, a flexible learning climate, and interprofessional peer work. These lessons may be transferable to other programs seeking to enhance and support interprofessionality. Faculty development initiatives preparing educators for interprofessional practice should be an integral component of health professions education, as delivering these courses within professional silos is no longer justifiable. As the relevance of interprofessional education grows, an effective way of promoting interprofessonal education is to train the trainers in formal interprofessional settings.

Designing for Usability with Cots: How Useful is a Style Guide?

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (18) ◽  
pp. 1295-1299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Hoffman ◽  
Catherine A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interface ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Increase ◽  
Cots Products ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf

The recent increase in the use of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment and software in future military procurements creates a variety of challenges for human factors practitioners to address. There is a need to tailor our approach in order to provide suitable human factors tools to support the design of COTS-based systems. The human factors approach adopted, and experiences gained, in the development of a command planning aid are reported. This system, which is currently under development, utilises a large number of COTS products together with significant bespoke software development. It is one of the first major procurements in the United Kingdom to be based heavily around the use of COTS. A major challenge has been to optimise the usability of the overall system by providing future users with as seamless as possible integration of the various COTS products, rather than a series of unrelated, separate applications. One of the main activities has therefore been the design of the human-computer interface (HCI). A comprehensive Style Guide was developed against which the proposed COTS products could be evaluated, and new bespoke software could be designed. This paper evaluates the utility of a Style Guide in this context, and reports a number of lessons learned from our experiences.

Lessons Learned and Experiences Shared From the Front Lines: United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 585-590
Author(s):  
Steven D. Wexner ◽  
Delia Cortés-Guiral ◽  
Neil Mortensen ◽  
Ara Darzi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
American College Of Surgeons ◽  
Skilled Personnel ◽  
President Elect

This is the second installment of a series of interviews, conducted by the senior author (S.D.W.) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS), that feature international leaders in surgery telling of the challenges they faced during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The disease arrived in the United Kingdom with devastating effects within a few weeks of its spread to Western Europe from China. In Oxford, Professor Neil Mortensen used his position as the President-elect of the Royal College of Surgeons of England to help coordinate efforts among the 4 Royal Colleges in the United Kingdom (his own, London, Edinburgh, and Ireland) to mobilize and retrain surgeons for duty helping to support in the critical care of patients with respiratory illness from the virus. In London, Lord Ara Darzi, a colon and rectal surgeon and leading innovator in minimally invasive surgery, underwent re-education himself in respiratory care to help his medical colleagues. As a member of the House of Lords involved in matters regarding the National Health Service as former Parliamentary Undersecretary of Health, he facilitated legislative measures to increase the physician workforce necessary to meet the demand for skilled personnel. Professor Mortensen and Lord Darzi have been recognized as honorary fellows of the ACS for their contributions to surgery. “Lots of people do not think it can possibly happen to them”, Professor Mortensen said, “Our experience is that it will happen to you, and you cannot be prepared enough. Preparation, preparation, preparation is what you need to do.”

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-580
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Special Session ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
Preparatory Work ◽  
Regular Session

Thirty-one of the 35 contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) attended meetings of the inter-sessional committee of GATT from April 24 to 28, 1957 to discuss among other matters the procedure to be followed for considering the European Common Market Treaty and to examine a complaint from the government of Denmark concerning exports of subsidized eggs from the United Kingdom. In regard to the first of these matters, it was reported that the committee reached no decision on whether it would be better to call a special session of the contracting parties, as suggested by the delegate from Japan, or whether it should be considered at the regular session to be held in October. It was decided to draw up a program of preparatory work, to extend over several months, including consultations with the interim committee appointed by the signatories of the treaty. The work would be supervised by the GATT Secretariat, and the inter-sessional committee would meet at an appropriate date to arrange for definitive discussions on whether the articles of the treaty conformed with the requirements of GATT. It was reported that in the course of the discussion Japan voiced a complaint against the fact that overseas territories of the Common Market nations would be associated with the Common Market on a privileged economic status.

THE IMPACT OF BREXIT ON BRITISH-EUROPEAN RELATIONS

Moldoscopie ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Svetlana Cebotari ◽  
◽  
Carolina Budurina-Goreacii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
European Community ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Security ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
The Impact

The exit of Great Britain from the European Union, “Brexit”, respectively “British exit”, has become one of the most important processes that trouble and concern the European world and not only. The impact of Brexit on British-European relations is considerable. Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Community. were argued by a series of arguments that can be grouped according to three major considerations: economic, political and security. Analyzing Brexit, it can be seen that the separation of the United Kingdom from the European Union is a phenomenon that can only bring disadvantages to both parties, as well as European security. Regarding the security of the two entities, Brexit is considered as a risk, but also an opportunity for Great Britain, as well as for the states of the European Union. This article aims to highlight the main consequences of Brexit on British-European relations, including the British Overseas Territories.

Forecasting research on priority directions to achieve sdg № 14 “Conservation and rational use of oceans, seafoods and seafood”

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
T. V. Pisarenko ◽  
T. K. Kvasha ◽  
O. F. Paladchenko ◽  
I. V. Molchanova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Use Of Resources

The article is devoted to the results of forecasting research to identify priority areas of research and technology in the field of marine conservation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 14 “Conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. The research was performed in terms of national objectives of this goal in the following stages: 1) survey of experts from scientific organizations and institutions of higher education on research and technology that can offer domestic science, and which are necessary for the implementation of the tasks of SDG No. 14; 2) survey of expert practitioners on the research and technologies proposed at the first stage, which are needed by the real sector; 3) determining the competitiveness of the proposed research/technology based on bibliometric/ patent analysis. The generalized estimation of all offered directions of scientific researches and technologies on these stages and their clustering according to the received estimation is carried out. According to the results of the work of 13 proposals on the national tasks of the SDG No. 14 priority technologies are identified: integrated assessment of the ecological status of natural ecosystems of the sea on the basis of field research and methods of remote sensing of the earth; express water toxicity indicator; ecological management of coastal-marine waters of estuaries and estuaries in the conditions of development of nature protection activity; adapted for Ukraine international methods for determining the number of fish and estimating the total allowable catches in the Black and Azov Seas; new approaches to managing the use of aquatic biological resources of the Black and Azov Seas aimed at sustainable use of resources.

Crafting human rights in a constitution: Gay rights in the Cayman Islands and the limits to global norm diffusion

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM VLCEK
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Norm ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
Human Rights Norms

AbstractThis paper considers the introduction of a bill of rights to a territory’s constitution as an example of the transnational transfer of norms. Using the case of the Cayman Islands Constitution promulgated in 2009 this analysis looks specifically at the creation of its bill of rights in light of local debate following the legalisation of homosexuality forced by the United Kingdom in 2000. The unique constitutional structure framing the political relationship between the United Kingdom and its Overseas Territories is outlined as explanation for the nature of the Cayman constitution, as well as the historical trajectory leading to it. This trajectory informs the context for the local debate over homosexuality and substantial local resistance to the transfer of an emerging European norm recognizing same-sex marriage to a Caribbean island firm in its Christian heritage. This case interrogates the transference and reproduction of ‘global human rights norms’ in the construction of constitutions in postcolonial societies anticipated by proponents of ‘norm diffusion’ and highlights the contested acceptance offered exogenous norms by the postcolonial society.

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