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Extracts from the IPD UK Quarterly Property Index Q4 2011 Results
Posted on: 4 May 2012
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The IPD UK Quarterly Property Index measures ungeared total returns to directly held standing property investments from one open market valuation to the next.
Social media and mobile in travel trends
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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A video co-produced by EyeforTravel and Digital Visitor using research data from EyeforTravel’s Social Media & Mobile in Travel report that looks at the upcoming trends in Social Media and Mobile and the impact it has had on the travel industry.
Economic evaluation of Living Streets’ Fitter for Walking Project
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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Living Streets’ Fitter for Walking project worked with deprived communities in 12 locasl authority areas across five regions of England to improve local environments and promote more walking for short journeys. This study uses the Health Economic Assessment Tool; for walking to estimate the benefit to cost ration of improvements to the walking environment using data collected from five projects.
Invest in innovative refurb. Watford, 26 April 2012
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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The Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network ran this industry engagement workshop with the National Refurbishment Centre. More than 100 members of the retrofit community gathered at a special workshop ahead of a £10million programme on retrofit solutions for the non-domestic buildings. The programme will help showcase innovative technologies and processes that can be used to make significant energy savings in existing buildings such as schools, shops, offices and hotels. Presentations from this workshop are now available. Please note you must be a member of this network to view the outputs.
Insights: World City Review
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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In this third edition of their World Cities Review, Savills revisits its class of 10 global cities (Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) in the light of increasingly challenging economic conditions. Since the last review in the summer of 2011, the Eurozone crisis has pushed the global economy to the brink of recession. This has weighed heavily on the residential markets that Savills monitor.
Disasters a growing problem with differentiated impact
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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In this article, Debbie Hillier, Humanitarian Policy Adviser, Oxfam GB, argues that In order for development to be truly sustainable – economically, socially and environmentally – it must be resilient to disasters.
Equity investment in privately finance projects
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure.
Open Consultation on the European Tourism Label for Quality Systems Initiative
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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Currently there is a wide variety of public and private initiatives that aim at defining the principles and criteria to be used by European tourism stakeholders for ensuring the development and provision of quality tourism within the EU. However, these quality systems often show little consistency and coordination as they usually focus on individual sectoral or territorial objectives without following a European integrated approach. This fragmentation is a possible obstacle to achieving a EU level playing field for providing high-quality tourism service throughout Europe, which is likely to cause detriment to the competitiveness of the European tourism sector. The European Commission has launched a consultation exercise to obtain the views of a wide circle of public and private stakeholders and individuals on possible EU action in this field. Comment are requested by 13 July 2012.
Planet under pressure. London, 26-29 March 2012
Posted on: 3 May 2012
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Based on the latest scientific evidence, this conference aimed to provide a comprehensive update of our knowledge of the Earth system and the pressure our planet is now under. The event focused on the scientific community’s and the wider world’s attention on climate, ecological degradation, human well-being, planetary thresholds, food security, energy, governance across scales and poverty alleviation. The conference discussed solutions, at all scales, to move societies on to a sustainable pathway, and aimed to provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN Rio +20 conference. Outcomes from the conference including recordings of the plenary sessions are available online.
Measuring the environmental performance of metropolitan areas with Geographic Information Sources
Posted on: 1 May 2012
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This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest ecosystems, c) urban density, d) CO2 emissions, e) air quality. The indicators measure the environmental performance of administrative regions (OECD TL2 and TL3 regions) and of OECD metropolitan areas. High-quality geographic datasets have been combined and harmonized with the objectives of producing internationally comparable results, and of achieving the largest possible coverage of OECD and non-OECD countries. The results show that geographic information data are a key and underexploited resource for monitoring the state of local environmental assets. There are still methodological and measurement challenges in the use of geographic data for the analysis of environmental changes at the local level. More coordination across national and international programs producing geographic data is needed to further increase their policy relevance.
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