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Chris ChurchBiographical overviewChris Church works independently on sustainable development issues and is a co-founder of Community Environment Associates. He is an advisor to the UK Community Development Foundation (CDF) and to a wide range of other organisations on sustainable development. He specialises in work at the local and community level, and on work linking social development, poverty and environmental issues. He works in the UK and Europe, lives in Hackney in east London and chairs the Board of London 21, a cross-London network of organisations working on sustainable development. Chris worked for Friends of the Earth UK from 1984-1990 before starting to work freelance. He has since worked for many NGOs and other organisations including the National Trust, Charter 88, UNED UK, the Community Architecture Group, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, Groundwork, Global Action Plan, ENCAMS, the Environment Council, Surfers Against Sewage, English Nature, the local government Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) and the EU TACIS programme. He has also been extensively employed by the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on issues relating to sustainable development. Chris works on policy issues, on infrastructure and project development, and on community engagement and participation and sees the linking of these three work areas as central to making sustainable development work. He has worked with many local authorities in the UK on their Local Agenda 21 programmes, on long-term projects, one-off events and training programmes. He is now involved in helping several councils link sustainability and climate change to their work on Community Planning and Local Development Frameworks. Chris has recently focused on how non-environmental Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations can be enabled to play an effective part in work on environmental issues. He has developed extensive links with most of the large UK VCS networks and is happy to advise or suggest contacts for new projects in this area. He led research on the Defra-funded “Every Action Counts” programme and advised the Community Sector Coalition in leading work on this programme. More on Every Action Counts can be found here. An older (2005) paper on the engagement of the VCS in work on climate change can be downloaded here. In 2008, Chris has written 'Better Places, Better Planet', a new 'plain language' guide to sustainable development for community groups, available from CDF publications here Chris is doing further VSC related work with Bassac, (the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres), on the "ChangeCheck" Community Impact Programme. This work enables community organisations to assess their own impacts. More information can be found on the Bassac website. Chris works extensively in Eastern Europe. He co-chairs the Board of ANPED, the Northern Alliance for Sustainability, a network of NGOs in all regions of Europe, which is based in Amsterdam. He has worked with projects in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia, has run workshops in several other countries, and was lead advisor on NGO involvement to the EU TACIS programme on Environmental awareness from 1997 - 1999. In 2008 he co-wrote "Action on Climate Change: From a Divided Europe to a Common Purpose" (PDF can be found here) with Tamara Malkova, Director of Green Dossier, which looks at the role of NGOs in tackling climate change across Europe **************************************************************** A major focus of Chris's work is on the links between environmental issues, poverty and health. He has recently worked with Carolyn Stephens of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a report on Environment, Poverty and Health links, for WHO and the World Bank (due out July 2008). Other publications include a book on Environment and Health issues and (with Maria Adebowale of Capacity Global), a report on 'Environmental Justice in London' downloadable here. Chris is also involved in research and evaluation work. He has recently completed two research projects, one ("Seven Sides to every question") funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the links between different disciplines working on local sustainability issues, the other with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on how community groups deal with technical information. He also evaluated a six nation programme on NGO development in Albania, Macedonia, Kazakhstan and other nations for the Dutch agency MilieuKontakt. You can download a full CV (PDF) here, using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on any of the thumbnails below to access downloadable photos of Chris Church:
PublicationsVarious current papers are available from the Suscom documents page. Other publications that are generally available include:
Chris is always happy to discuss new projects or ideas. Email him now |
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