Peduzzi, Pascal and Reimer Lynggaard, Josefine and Chuah, Stephanie (Eds).
(2022)
Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis.
GRID-Geneva, United Nations Environment Programme: Geneva, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Sand plays a strategic role in delivering ecosystem services, maintaining biodiversity, supporting economic development, and providing livelihoods within communities. It is linked to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) either directly or indirectly. Despite the strategic importance of sand, its extraction, sourcing, use, and management remain largely ungoverned in many regions of the world, leading to numerous environmental and social consequences that have been largely overlooked (Peduzzi 2014 ; UNEP 2019). “Sand and Sustainability : 10 strategic recommendations to avert a crisis” therefore consolidates the expertise in sand and sustainability from different sectors to bring attention to the impacts from the current state of extraction, use and (mis)management, putting forward recommendations for actions to set the global sand agenda in addressing environmental sustainability needs alongside justice, equity, technical, economic, and political considerations. This report is built with recommendations from the world experts on this topic, canvas via interviews, experts round table and direct contribution of more than 20 lead authors. It is supporting three resolutions from the UN Environment Assembly: UNEA 4, on Mineral Resource Governance (sand is the most extracted material in volume) UNEA 4, on Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (infrastructure requires sand as a building material). UNEA 5, Environmental aspects of minerals and metals management (requesting to raise our environmental standards on how to manage these resources). And the IUCN motion « For the urgent global management of marine and coastal sand resources ».
| Type: | Report |
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| Title: | Sand and Sustainability: 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis |
| ISBN-13: | 978-92-807-3932-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.unep.org/resources/report/sand-and-sus... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206341 |
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