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A new settlement for South East Maidstone
Posted on: 14 February 2013
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Golding Homes has published plans for a new garden suburb on over 350 acres of potential development land to the south east of Maidstone. The proposed development would provide the opportunity to create a new community of up to 5,000 high quality, sustainable homes based on three walkable suburbs, with its own local services and infrastructure. In addition, the site would provide commercial space, retail and other community and leisure facilities, open space and recreational areas.
Global Risks 2013
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The World Economic Forum is now in its eighth year of publishing the Global Risks report. The purpose of the current edition is twofold. First, it aims to show how experts from around the world, from different backgrounds, currently perceive the risks that the world is likely to face over the next decade. To capture these opinions, a survey was carried out, interviews were conducted with specialists in different fields, and a series of workshops and conference sessions were held with expert groups to interpret the research findings and to work out the three risk cases developed in the report. Second, with this report the World Economic Forum aims to continue to raise awareness about global risks, to stimulate thinking about how risks can be factored into strategy development, and to challenge global leaders to improve how they approach global risks.
This year’s Special Report examines the increasingly important issue of building national resilience to global risks. It introduces qualitative and quantitative indicators to assess overall national resilience to global risks by looking at five national-level subsystems (economic, environmental, governance, infrastructure and social) through the lens of five components: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, response and recovery. The aim is to develop a future diagnostic report to enable decision-makers to track progress in building national resilience and possibly identify where further investments are needed.
Maintaining standards for facilities
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Facilities management owes much of its existence to building maintenance management, which continues to form a significant part of the workload of the FM sector. The publication of BS 8210:2012 Guide to facilities maintenance management provides guidance on how to achieve successful maintenance outcomes for a range of facilities. This new standard completely replaces the original 1986 standard on building maintenance management, which has now been withdrawn.
Making slums history: A global challenge for 2020. Rabat, 26-28 November 2012
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In partnership with UN-Habitat, the government of Morocco hosted this international conference to enable delegates to share their success stories in addressing slum improvement and preventing the formation of new slums through enhanced delivery of adequate housing. A rigorous exchange of experiences ensued and a declaration was adopted by all the 25 states present, where they committed to “Promoting, … the definition of a global goal of halving the proportion of people living in slums between 2015 and 2030, to be part of the overall formulation of the new Sustainable Development Goals and of the Habitat III preparatory process. A conference report is available online.
An overview of responses to VisitBritain’s Consultation: Delivering a Golden Legacy: A Growth Strategy for Inbound Tourism to Britain from 2012 to 2020
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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This report presents a summary of responses to Visit Britain’s consultation paper on a growth strategy for inbound tourism to Britain published in October 2012.
Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area: Development strategies and sustainability concepts
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In March 2012 the Wuhan Planning and Design Institute hosted an Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT) workshop in order to define development strategies and sustainable concepts for the Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area. The UPAT Team of eight ISOCARP members worked closely with planners and executives of the Wuhan Planning and Design Institute, the Wuhan Land Resources and Planning Bureau and the East Lake Management Office. This UPAT report brings together the work of the eight planning professionals who took part in the UPAT Workshop. It takes into account the feedback the team has obtained from representatives of the WPDI and the other Wuhan organizations to three presentations. The UPAT Report seeks to integrate a tourism development of the highest quality with the conservation and enhancement of the East Lake’s beautiful natural environment.
Green Digital Charter Toolkit
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The NiCE (Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency) project has launched the Green Digital Toolkit to all cities. The Toolkit is an online platform designed to provide cities with a central resource for city-level actions towards the Green Digital Charter. It indeed enables cities to browse and share activities information and tools, exchange with each other, monitor the status in the Charter implementation and compare it with against the Covenant of Mayors reporting procedures.
Climate finance: Challenges and responses
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network has published its latest policy brief, summarising the thinking on climate finance among CDKN Alliance members and suggesting areas for prioritisation and action by the international community.
Reality, resources, resilience: Regeneration in a recession
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This paper, from Scotland’s Independent Regeneration Network (SURF), looks at how the recession is impacting upon disadvantaged communities in Scotland. It summarises experience and practical initiatives in two contrasting case study neighbourhoods, exploring how communities and partner agencies are responding, and asks what opportunities are presented by the distinct Scottish policy context.
Cities of tomorrow, action today
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The URBACT Secretariat has produced a new issue of “The URBACT Tribune which contains articles written by URBACT Lead Experts. This year, the articles reflect on the state of play in the URBACT projects and present some of the first findings of the URBACT workstreams focusing on challenges that the cities of tomorrow are likely to face and the actions local and national governments need to take today in order to face these challenges.
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