3.10a What impact do the creative industries have on the environment including greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts that occur through for example the extraction and use of raw materials (including plastics), waste, recycling and re-use practices? How can these impacts be measured to enable comparison with other sectors and to identify best practice?
Background
The creative industries play a key role in the net zero transition, both within their own industrial practices and as part of influencing the broader social and economic transition to a greener future. Ensuring green growth in the creative industries is an important aim for DCMS, requiring a range of diverse research methods and modes of analysis. We welcome knowledge and understanding of where the creative industries' environmental impacts occur, how they might best be mitigated and the role of the sector in supporting positive changes in society more generally.
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Research fields
- commerce, management, tourism and services
- creative arts and writing
- art history, theory and criticism
- creative and professional writing
- music
- performing arts
- screen and digital media
- visual arts
- other creative arts and writing
- economics
- environmental sciences
- climate change impacts and adaptation
- ecological applications
- environmental management
- human society
- policy and administration
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Why might this be relevant?
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Why might this be relevant?
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