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Unstructured Sitelines
Posted on: 12 June 2012
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The green cultural network, Fourth Door, has re-launched its main web-magazine, Unstructured, increasing its web-presence, and with the journal, Sitelines, a specific focus on sustainable architecture and the built environment. Sitelines highlights sustainability and its cultural, social and political implications and contexts, in contrast to the more technical approaches often found across contemporary architectural media. The latest issue also contains a special Passivhaus section.
The Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation
Posted on: 12 June 2012
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The Government has set out secondary legislation that will give industry the green light to bring the Green Deal energy efficiency market into operation, alongside measures to strengthen consumer protection, reduce industry burdens, and implement the Energy Company Obligation (ECO).
Literature on place branding and marketing
Posted on: 12 June 2012
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This blog provides a short listing of articles on place branding and marketing.
Land leverage dynamics in property markets
Posted on: 12 June 2012
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This project examines the Land Leverage Hypothesis through a detailed study of data from the city of Perth, Western Australia. Through the land leverage framework, this research paper examines property assets as a form of composite asset where major components of value are commonly classified as comprising a land and an improvements (structural) component as relevant proportions of the total value of the asset. The term, Land Leverage, reflects the proportion of total property value embodied in the value of land as distinct from improvements.
Housing in transition: Understanding the dynamics of tenure change
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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The first part of this report looks back at tenure change between 1993/94 and 2009/10, using the Government’s Survey of English Housing and its successor the English Housing Survey. This historical look breaks the data down by tenure, region, household type and income. The second part projects trends forward to 2025, and it explores how tenure structures may develop under different economic scenarios. It reports on the core findings based on two scenarios, a continuing weak economy and a cautiously slow economic expansion from the current low base.
Visit Suffolk: Business Confidence Monitor
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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A survey conducted to gauge the confidence of the tourism industry in Suffolk has shown that despite wet weather and cautious patterns of consumer spending, 23 per cent of businesses are feeling optimistic about the next three months, and 45 per cent are expecting to perform about the same as last year. 37 tourism businesses were surveyed in May 2012 for Visit Suffolk’s Business Confidence Monitor. Whilst 67 per cent admitted that visitor numbers had decreased against the same time last year, businesses were being proactive to keep their offering strong, with 82 per cent making site improvements and 63 per cent increasing PR and marketing spend.
New orders in the construction industry: 1st quarter 2012
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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Information bulletin of the latest quarterly estimates of new construction orders and some back data. Contains new construction orders (current price and constant price seasonally adjusted) broken down by sector and, in current prices, by region and by type of work.
Southern voices on climate policy choices
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This report provides an analysis of the tools and tactics advocacy groups use to influence policy responses to climate change at international, regional, national and sub-national levels. More than 20 climate networks and their member organisations have contributed to the report with their experiences of advocacy on climate change, including over 70 case studies from a wide range of countries – including many of the poorest – in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.
Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
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This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels.
State of the Nation: Water 2012
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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State of the Nation reports have been compiled each year since 2000 by panels of experts drawn from across the Institution of Civil Engineers membership and beyond. The aim of the State of the Nation report is to stimulate debate in society, influence governments’ policies and highlight the actions that we believe are needed to improve the state of the nation’s infrastructure and associated services. This report focuses on the issue of water.
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