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The limits of influence. The role of supply chains in influencing health and safety management in two sectors
Posted on: 16 October 2012
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This report presents findings on factors that positively influence the way health and safety is managed by suppliers in the construction and merchant shipping sectors. The research used two construction case studies to explore what positive effects their supply chains had on health and safety management. The study found that they were influenced by the demands of their clients to ensure good health and safety practice among their own contractors and subcontractors. However, in other chains where high standards from the top aren’t dictated throughout. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health is urging construction businesses not to cut corners on health and safety at the expense of worker safety.
European Green Commerce Conference. Brussels, 19 September 2012
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This event provided an opportunity to discuss the outcomes from the EU-funded project Green Commerce. The objective of this project was to: involve small businesses in the fight against climate change; promote environmental responsibility in the retail sector; reduce energy use and waste by simple techniques; and stimulate innovation in environment issues with examples of good practice. Presentations are available online.
Living with our buildings and infrastructure: adapting for the future. Birmingham, 18-19 September 2012
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The Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate – Coordination Network (ARCC CN) brings together researchers and stakeholders involved in climate change adaptation in the built environment and infrastructure sectors. 18 EPSRC-funded projects provide the focus, with research looking at adaptation and resilience in buildings, transport networks, water resources and energy systems. Working through coordinated activities and with the research and end-user communities, the ARCC CN provides evidence to enable the design of more resilient urban systems. This event was held to: showcase scientific advances from the ARCC CN projects and related research and highlight implications for end-users; place ARCC CN outputs in the context of wider policy and practice requirements; allow extensive networking opportunities for researchers and end-users. Presentations are available online, together with a brochure which summarises research findings and outputs to date from projects within the ARCC CN and highlights the implications for end users.
Making social protection ‘climate-smart’
Posted on: 15 October 2012
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Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) aims to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to a range of shocks and ongoing stresses through the integration of social protection (SP), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). However there are still few documented examples of social protection programming that specifically accounts for climate change, now and in the future, or that seeks to mitigate the potential of disasters in risk-prone communities. This briefing, from the Institute of Development Studies, draws policy-relevant lessons for ASP programming from a social protection programme in Tanzania taking its first steps to become ‘climate-smart’.
Resilience: New utopia or new tyranny? Reflection about the potentials and limits of the concept of resilience in relation to vulnerability reduction programmes
Posted on: 15 October 2012
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Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and international development agencies are now increasingly referring to the term. In that context, the objective of this paper was to assess in a critical manner the advantages and limits of resilience. While the review highlights some positive elements, in particular the ability of the term to foster integrated approach across sectors, it also shows that resilience has important limitations. In particular it is not a pro-poor concept, and the objective of poverty reduction cannot simply be substituted by resilience building.
Battersea Power Station Master Plan
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Detailed plans for the first phase of Rafael Viñoly’s Battersea Power Station masterplan have now been submitted to Wandsworth Council.
Winning in growth cities 2012/13
Posted on: 15 October 2012
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This report, published by Cushman & Wakefield, examines investment opportunities for commercial property in growth cities across the globe. It provides an in-depth look at which cities are winning among global property investors and what factors are driving their interest, including Cushman & Wakefield’s take on which cities will be winning in the year ahead. Registration is required to download report.
Integrative risk management in a changing world – Pathways to a resilient society. Davos, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2012
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The 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference provided an opportunity to discuss new findings and exchange experiences about the broad spectrum of risks societies are facing today in 11 plenary sessions and 69 parallel and special sessions, and 11 workshops. Material from the conference can be found online, including a short summary of the talks, the presentation slides given as well as the video recorded Keynote Presentations. A collection of the short and extended abstracts can also be found.
National Housing Federation Annual Conference . Birmingham, 17-19 September 2012
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This event provides an opportunity to debate issues relating to social housing. Presentations are available online.
Housing and Health Conference. Warrington, 5 October 2012
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Housing and support play a major role in meeting health objectives and tackling health inequalities, and it is crucial that housing and support feature in the new health system. The new Health and Social Care Act gives more responsibility for commissioning to clinicians and supports local authorities to take on new roles to improve public health. This event provided an opportunity to follow the latest twists and turns in the health, care and support agendas and gain an understanding of these far-reaching changes, both nationally and locally, including the best way to engage with the Health and Wellbeing boards and the Clinical Commissioning Groups and find a route through this challenging period of transformation. Presentations are available online.
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