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Low carbon routemap for the built environment
Posted on: 11 March 2013
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The Green Construction Board has developed the Low Carbon Routemap for the Built Environment to serve as a visual tool enabling stakeholders to understand the policies, actions and key decision points required to achieve the UK Government target of 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment against 1990 levels by 2050. The Routemap also sets out actions, together with key performance indicators that can be used to deliver and measure progress in meeting the 2050 target. The Routemap covers both infrastructure and buildings sectors, and addresses segments of operational and capital (embodied) carbon emissions.
Tackling squalor: the pivotal role of social housing
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The purpose of this paper, written by Duncan Bowie of the University of Westminster, is to review changes in attitudes to, and policy towards, social housing and social housing tenants since the Beveridge Report of 1942. This paper argues that the best way to counter the residualisation of social housing and the spatial concentration of social housing tenants is to radically increase the supply of social housing.
Changes to affordable housing in London and implications for delivery
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This paper presents an overview of the London housing market, focusing on affordability and the impact of recent policy reforms on affordable housing.
Policy making after disasters. Helping regions become resilient: The case of post-earthquake Abruzzo
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This report suggests that the Abruzzo region of Italy should focus on endogenous resources to build its long-term development strategy and, at the same time, to increase the external openness of the regional system to attract more entrepreneurs, students, foreigners and external capital, following the earthquake of 2009. The issues raised in the report can help other governments to rethink regional policy, for both regions vulnerable to natural disasters and for those facing long-term decline. As such, eight guiding recommendations for building resilient regions after a disaster are drawn. These guiding recommendations can provide a framework for policy making in other OECD regions.
Attitudes of Europeans towards tourism
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This Flash Eurobarometer, “Attitudes of Europeans towards Tourism” (No 370), was conducted at the request of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry in the 27 EU Member States and in seven additional countries: Croatia, Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Iceland, the Republic of Serbia and Israel. This wave is a follow up to the Flash Eurobarometer No 334 conducted in January 2012. The survey was designed to explore a range of aspects surrounding holidays in 2012 and 2013, in particular: respondents’ motivation for going on holiday in 2012; information sources and tools used to research and organise holidays; respondents’ travel profile, preferred destinations and holiday types; satisfaction with various aspects of holidays in 2012; and plans for holidays in 2013, including the potential impact of the current economic crisis on those plans. Where possible, results are compared to the last wave of the survey, conducted in January 2012.
The economics of climate resilience
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The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been developing a National Adaptation Programme (NAP) to address the issues that were uncovered in the UK-wide climate change risk assessment (CCRA) that was released last year. This report has been released in support of the NAP. The CCRA is the first ever comprehensive assessment of potential risks and opportunities for the UK arising from climate change. The ground-breaking 2000 page report identified climate risks to 11 key areas ranging from agriculture to tourism.
Adapting to climate change: Workbook for public sector organisations
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A new climate change workbook aimed to help organisations adapt to climate risk and capitalise on opportunities, has been released by Adaptation Scotland, an organisation that acts as a dedicated knowledge broker on adaptation issues in Scotland. The workbook is divided into 5 ‘phases’ each includes worksheets and practical exercises that help organisations understand adaptation challenges and take action to increase their resilience.
National BIM Report 2013
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Results from the annual industry-wide BIM survey, undertaken by NBS, have provided the most comprehensive and up to date picture of BIM (Building Information Modelling) implementation within the UK’s construction industry. Now in its third year, the NBS National BIM Survey was conducted between December 2012 and February 2013 and received a record response. More than 1,350 professionals took part, representing a range of business sizes and disciplines from across the industry including architecture, engineering and surveying, making this the most comprehensive piece of research into BIM to be undertaken in the UK.
Planning reform proposals
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This paper from the House of Commons Library highlights the key proposals for planning reform.
Health and Garden Cities
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The Town and Country Planning Association has re-published Norman Macfayden’s Health and Garden Cities, the first of a ‘New Series’ of pamphlets published by the TCPA (at the time, operating under the name Garden Cities and Town Planning Association), issued in 1940. Over 70 years on, the pamphlet is still of critical relevance today as the Government embarks on both a reform of public health and a new generation of Garden Cities and Suburbs. It highlights how Garden City planning made a significant contribution to improving the quality of life of ordinary people, providing an unparalleled improvement on what had come before.
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