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Communique #51 Winter (downunder) 2014  Since it’s launch in 2002, The World has continuously circumnavigated the globe, spending extensive time in the most exotic and well-traveled ports. At 644 feet, The World is the largest privately owned yacht on the planet. Individuals owns one or more of the 165 private onboard Residences, and collectively, they own the ship. Suzanne Noakes was invited on-board as a Melanesian expert on the recent voyage in this part of the world.

   Papua New Guinea, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Solomon Islands – all Melanesian cultures … and the journey extended to Tikopia, the outer reaches of Polynesia.  

     www.boardtheworld.com/journey

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Indonesia: ‘On either side of the Wallace line’: This 11 day tour celebrates the dynamic work of the nineteenth century explorer Albert Wallace, who played a major role in Darwin’s thinking about the evolution and development of our planet. The ecology on both side of the Wallace Line is completely different. http://www.ecolodgesindonesia.com/tours/on-either-side-of-the-wallace-line/

Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)

GSTC Sustainability Training Program

GSTC now offers training programs– courses of 5 days, 3 days, and 1 day for anyone in travel and tourism that should learn the basic concepts of sustainable tourism. The courses are delivered in many languages. Prices vary by location. Examples of best practices are drawn from GSTC’s extensive knowledge base. Trainers are carefully selected and trained by GSTC. For more information and to book a GSTC training course, contact GSTC at training@gstcouncil.org Application process document: http://www.gstcouncil.org/images/pdf/GSTC_Trainer_Application_Process_v1.pdf

World first GSTC Train-the-trainer course in India: Field directors of five tiger reserves in the state Maharashtra and their subordinates, attended the three-day intensive GSTC learning course at Moharli from June 10-12, 2014. The GSTC program was delivered by Guy Chester. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Global-agencies-eye-tourism-business-in-Maharashtra/articleshow/36603852.cms

The Co-Chairs of the Knowledge Network Education and Training (KNET) Working Group, Herbert Hamele (Germany) and Steve Noakes (Australia) usually conduct their GSTC business over skype and emails, but not July when they had a chance to catch up in Saarbrucken, Germany. In addition to being CoChair of the KNET WG, Herbert also serves on the Board of the GSTC. A former GSTC Board member, Steve remains also is a member of the GSTC Election Committee and the GSTC Trainer Selection Panel.  

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Myanmar:

The Business Innovation Facility (BIF) ‘helps the development and uptake of inclusive business models by companies in developing countries. The term ‘inclusive business’ refers to profitable core business activity that has high development impacts; creating jobs, integrating local farmers and entrepreneurs in international supply chains and providing quality and affordable services to low-income consumers.’ https://www.gov.uk/business-innovation-facility-bif Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Australia. Coinciding with the opening of the G20 Summit in Brisbane: The Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and the Griffith Tourism Confucius Institute (TCI), will co-host the “First East-West Dialogue on Tourism and the Chinese Dream” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the Gold Coast from 13 to 15 of November 2014. GIFT encompasses a broad research program dedicated to globally relevant sustainable tourism and will deliver both breadth and depth in tourism research. The Tourism Confucius Institute (TCI) at Griffith University is the first and only Confucius Institute with an emphasis on tourism.

UN Sustainable Development resource: The Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) provides leadership in promoting and coordinating implementation of the sustainable development agenda of the United Nations. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) which concluded on 22 June 2012, is been considered one of the largest conferences in the history of the United Nations.

 

http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/

In July and August 2014, Steve Noakes & Paul Rogers are undertaking a pro-poor tourism project in Myanmar funded by the UK’s Department for International Development.  

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Six new publications for 2014 (so far)

     

3. Noakes, S., Jiang, M., De Lacy, T. (2014) Pacific Tourism Building Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change, In Ruhanen, L. (Ed) ‘Tourism’s Response to Climate Change: An Examination of Tourism Related Initiatives in Asia and the Pacific’. United Nations World Tourism Organization: Madrid.

4. Noakes, S. and Wiranatha, A. S. (2014) Indonesia Tourism, Encyclopedia of Tourism (eds) Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xia. Springer.

5. Noakes, S. (2014) Entries on Bhutan, and Nauru in Encyclopedia of Tourism (eds) Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao. Springer. 6. Jiang, M., Calgaro, E., Munk Klint, L., Dominey-Howes, D., DeLacy, T. and Noakes, S. (2014). Understanding climate change vulnerability and resilience of tourism destinations: an example of community-based tourism in Samoa, in Pratt, S., and Harrison, D. (eds) Tourism in Pacific Islands: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Routledge.

Small Island Developing States (SIDS): The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, to be preceded by activities related to the conference from 28 to 30 August 2014, also in Apia, Samoa.  

 http://www.sids2014.org SIDS Partnership Platform: http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?menu=1507 Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) Steve Noakes has been a long time supporter of the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) which is now branded with AVID, Australian Volunteers for International Development. Currently acting as the Australian Partner Organisation for 12 month volunteer placements:

• Tam Guna: within the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Myanmar. • Asad Kanan - working on a cruise tourism project based at Lakatoro, Malekula, Vanuatu

(Wala Is)

• Lucy Battaglene’s project just about completed - she has been Coordinator at Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Training Centre, Vanuatu Institute of Technology http://vit.edu.vu/about-vit/ http://exchange.ayad.com.au/?iid=74023&sr=0#folio=15 http://pacificinstitute.anu.edu.au/outrigger/2012/06/18/lucy-battaglene/

1. Noakes, S. and Wilson, A. (2014) Cricket: Biology and Bali. In Baum, T. and Butler, R. (eds) Travels to the boundary: Tourism and Cricket’, Scotland, University of Strathclyde. http://www.channelviewpublications.com/display.asp?isb=9781845414528

2. Noakes, S. Greening Tourism Jobs – approaches in Indonesia. In Jiang, M. et al (2014) Green Growth and Travelism – The Academic Viewpoint, UK, Routledge.

 

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Resources:  

   Earth Policy Institute.

 Gaia Theory:

   http://www.gaiatheory.org/ Some scientists believe that this “Gaian system” self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, and other factors in an “automatic” manner.  Data on international development

 

  World Bank Group: International project evaluation

AidData collects, curates & publishes data on more than US$5.5 trillion in development finance from 90 bilateral & multilateral agencies at the project level. http://aiddata.org/

Inequality in Asia and the Pacific.

This book will be useful to those interested in policy options that could be deployed by Asian countries in confronting rising inequality. http://www.adb.org/publications/inequality-asia-and-pacific  

Lots of good data sets on global issues of environment, climate, population, health, food, agriculture etc. http://www.earth-policy.org/

 

The Gaia Theory is a compelling way of understanding life on our planet. The theory asserts that living organisms and their inorganic surroundings have evolved together as a single living system that greatly affects the chemistry and conditions of Earth’s surface.

 

 

https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/ Resources for evaluators: https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/evaluators  

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Good report re evaluation development projects

World Bank: e-Institute. The e-Institute was launched as a virtual learning classroom to provide convenient, easy, and reliable access to cutting edge knowledge and communities of practice.

http://einstitute.worldbank.org/ei/ Development impact:

http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/ World population 2015: 7.32 billion. Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 http://populationpyramid.net/world/  Global Environment Facility:

 

US$ 4.43 billion pledged for the Global Environment Facility http://www.thegef.org/gef/node/10428  

The development of indicators is art, combined with logical thinking. http://www.miniaid.com/xpub/ants.pdf

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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Established in 1946 under the name Aid to Europe, to assist refugees in Europe after World War II. Today NRC is organised as an independent, private foundation. Cooperates closely with the UN and other organisations, around the world as well as in Norway.

An independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.

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World Bank/IFC Global consumption database

A one-stop source of data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. The data are based on national household surveys, which collect information for a group of households representative of the entire country. For each of the countries covered, the resulting datasets have been used to calculate the share of the population at different levels of consumption. http://datatopics.worldbank.org/consumption/home IFC & IADB: Market based approaches to meet the needs of the poor. 4 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP) – all those with incomes below US$3,000 p.a. in local purchasing power – live in relative poverty. However, together, they have substantial purchasing power representing a US$5 trillion global market. http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/3c2787004cc75e6094d7b59ec86113d5/Pub_009_The%2BNext%2B4%2BBillion.pdf?MOD=AJPERES Stockholm Resilience Centre

What is resilience? Resilience is the capacity of a system to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. http://goo.gl/qX0SRU Planetary boundaries research In 2009, a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists identified and quantified a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/research/research-programmes/planetary-boundaries.html Global Consumption Database The most comprehensive data source to date on consumer spending patterns in developing countries

http://datatopics.worldbank.org/consumption/ World Development Indicators. The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi Free (pdf) Atlas of Global Development Provides a visual guide to global challenges with easy-to-read maps, tables, graphs and photographs on every topic. http://data.worldbank.org/products/atlas

http://data.worldbank.org/products/atlas

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World Bank: Ending poverty requires more than growth. In terms of ‘the poor’, almost half of the world’s poor are in two Asia countries. The five top countries are India (33% of the world’s poor), China (13%), Nigeria (7%), Bangladesh (6%) and Democratic Republic of Congo (5%). Together they are home to nearly 760 million of the world’s poor. Adding another five countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya – would encompass almost 80% of the extreme poor. A sharp emphasis on these countries is central to ending extreme poverty. http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/04/10/ending-poverty-requires-more-than-growth-says-wbg?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT Digital storage times change:

 

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