From Idea to Practice: Sustainable Development Efforts in Manitoba
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Abstract
With a renewed global interest in achieving a more sustainable society, authors reflect on history of institutionalizing sustainable development in their province, Manitoba, and consider its future. This paper outlines that province's approaches to developing and advancing sustainable development and discusses success of these approaches in shaping, guiding, and furthering sustainable development in province. This is achieved through examination of legislation and review of sustainable development documents as well as interviews with various participants in process including members of Manitoba Round Table for Environment and Economy, and members of more recent Manitoba Round Table for Sustainable Development. Reference is made to Nova Scotia experience. The authors conclude that Manitoba's success in advancing sustainable development is predictably mixed and coalesces around roundtable actions, institutional structure, and policy development.L'interet mondial pour une societe plus durable ayant ete ravive, les auteurs entament une reflexion sur l'institutionnalisation du developpement durable dans leur province (Manitoba) et s'interrogent sur son avenir. L'article fait etat des methodes adoptees par le Manitoba pour appuyer et faire progresser le developpement durable et discute de leur utilisation pour definir, orienter et favoriser le developpement durable dans la province. Pour ce faire, les auteurs examinent la loi et divers documents sur le developpement durable ainsi que les entrevues avec divers participants au processus, notamment des membres de la Table ronde du Manitoba sur l'environnement et l'economie et des membres de la Table ronde manitobaine sur le developpement durable, de creation plus recente. Les auteurs concluent que le succes de la promotion du developpement durable par le Manitoba est intimement lie aux interventions de la Table ronde, aux politiques qu'elle elaborera eta sa structure de coordination.IntroductionI. Formative years: shaping ideas into legislationII. A new vision: implementation of Sustainable Development ActIII. A new government: rethinking sustainable development implementationIV. Key components of sustainable development implementation1. Round tables2. Institutional structure3. Policy approachesConclusionIntroductionThis year - 2012 - is twenty-fifth anniversary of Bruntland Commission's Our Common Future, report that presented world with concept of sustainable development in its now popularized definition - development that meets needs of present without compromising ability of future generation to meet their own needs.1 It also is twentieth anniversary of ground-breaking United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), known as Earth Summit. One of fundamental outcomes of conference was 21, which called upon each country to devise national approaches to and strategies for instituting sustainable development.2 Brodhag and Taliere note that Agenda 21 recognises that enormous task involved in sustainable development needs an orderly approach.3 Two decades later, following up on notable Earth Summit, world leaders, having recently attended Rio+20 (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development), are once again considering sustainable development and in particular the institutional framework for sustainability development, one of two primary themes of conference.4Although there has been considerable commitment made to sustainability ideals by governments around world,5 institutionally embedding commitments made under 21 has been very difficult. Barry Rabe noted that momentum following Earth Summit was short-lived, with little discussion of institutional reforms needed to implement sustainable development.6 It remains to be seen whether or not leaders will continue to pursue commitments made at Rio+20, or if enthusiasm for sustainable development will once again rapidly fade. …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".