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- What principles should be used to delegate responsibilities to local communities, and how can these areas be empowered to deliver?
- How can we best develop an inclusive societal vision for a just transition towards sustainability? At what spatial scale should such visions be developed and how to reconcile across scales? How can we best manage the polycentric governance to implement these visions?
- How can we conduct probabilistic analysis of the likelihood of man-made risks for policy purposes where human agency is subject to particular varieties of uncertainty?
- Global drivers of declines in nature are well documented but we need to understand how drivers interact in the UK and globally, as well as the global impacts of UK activities. We also need to understand how our actions to address declines (such as policy responses, intervention and environmental management) impact drivers
- How can we balance devolved responsibilities with the need to avoid a weakening of national guidelines/ standards?
- Which techniques are best for estimating the effects of interacting risks? How do we ensure that communication of risk is relevant and effective? What lessons can we take from the response to the coronavirus pandemic about the communication of risk and of the need for behavioural change?
- Which actions by communities, civil society groups, and local and central government, would most effectively and efficiently improve the completeness and accuracy of electoral registers for all people?
- How can we make the most of participatory/ co-design approaches with different groups in society, including digital engagement, to generate new ideas, learn from existing practice, and build consensus for the future of policy?
- What evidence is there, from the UK and internationally, about how best to manage organisational change in the public sector?
- How can we develop and exploit new methodologies to ensure cost-effective monitoring of climate change and adaptation actions and impact on climate risk? How do we measure resilience to test the success and cost effectiveness of actions, and incorporate resilience indicators into decision making?
- Development of systems approaches that can be used to inform policymaking. This includes approaches to provide insights into complex systems, identify points of intervention, account for multiple perspectives, and frame policy decisions