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URBAN-NEXUS dialogue cafe. Goteborg, 10-11 April 2013
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This third URBAN-NEXUS Dialogue Café provided an opportunity to: share knowledge with other researchers, urban professionals and practitioners from across the public, private and third sectors; identify complex issues shared by European cities in achieving sustainable land-use; relate issues on land-use to other aspects of ‘the sustainable city’; and develop connections and networks with other organisations to explore priorities and potential options for future cooperation and collaboration. Presentations and a synthesis report are available online.
Water and environment 2013. London, 10-11 April 2013
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The annual conference of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management aims to challenge and inspire the water and environment community by sharing knowledge and best practice which is at the heart of meeting the key global challenges. Leaders in their field will cover an enormous range of topics from flood risk management, catchment management and water quality, water resources, climate change and sustainability, urban design and more, making the event this year’s most comprehensive briefing on the water, sustainability and the environment agenda. Delegate notes and presentations are available online.
Exploring challenges and opportunities in environmental change research. Dundee, 10-12 April 2013
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This event provided a forum for discussing and showcasing transdisciplinary research currently being undertaken across and within academic disciplines to address globally diverse and wide ranging issues of environmental and social security engaging with concepts of resilience, governance, wellbeing, sustainability, landscape and biodiversity. Presentations are available online.
Base Birmingham. Birmingham, 11 April 2013
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Base organises city-focused events that address and accelerate the potential of green and smart city initiatives to drive economic growth and development. Events focus on the built environment and infrastructure, covering areas such as energy generation and distribution, transport, improving the energy efficiency of homes and offices, waste as a resource and water. Birmingham has big ambitions to use the low-carbon agenda to reassert its position as one of the UK’s most dynamic and future looking cities. This event explores how. Presentations are available online.
Delivering buildings that are truly fit for purpose. Liverpool, 11-12 April 2013
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This technical symposium, organised by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, aimed to highlight the latest practice and research and provide a glimpse of future developments across the world with regard to reducing the energy dependence of buildings whilst maintaining lifelong performance. Papers and presentations are available online.
Building producers in a resource efficient world. London, 17 April 2013
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UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Resources, in partnership with the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP), hosted this seminar for policy makers construction professionals, product manufacturers and suppliers. As the most significant consumer of the Earth’s natural resources, the construction sector will need to get ‘more from less’ if it is to respond to the increasing pressures of cost, availability and environmental impact. The ASBP believes that this will require a move away from commodities, generic materials to a value added model, which encourages and rewards product innovation and intelligent design, for both resource efficiency, as well as building performance. In this seminar, a panel discussed physical resource limits, options for reduction and reuse and examples of current best practice and how it can be encouraged. Presentations are available online.
Learning from the city: British Red Cross Urban Learning Project Scoping Study
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This study looks at the evolving nature of risk and vulnerability in urban settings and assesses the operational implications of these trends and challenges for the British Red Cross, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the wider humanitarian sector. It highlights five ways forward for the British Red Cross and others. While drawing lessons from humanitarian programmes across the globe, the study focuses principally on evidence from five British Red Cross operational contexts: Haiti (Port-au-Prince), Uganda (Kampala and other cities), Djibouti (Djibouti-ville), Mongolia (Ulaanbataar) and Nepal (Kathmandu).
Synthesis report on consultations on the post-2015 framework on disaster risk reduction
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This synthesis report provides countries and all stakeholders with an overview of the issues emerging to date on the consultations and development of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2). The key purpose of this report is to provide the basis for continued consultations, and to inform a draft HFA2 following the Fourth Session of the Global Platform in May 2013.
Noise Road-Map: A blueprint for managing noise from aviation sources to 2050
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Sustainable Aviation has launched the industry’s first Noise Road-Map, demonstrating how noise from UK aviation will not increase despite a near doubling in flights over the next 40 years. This is achieved through the development and introduction of quieter aircraft alongside the implementation of better operating procedures and improved land-use planning. Going forwards, signatories to Sustainable Aviation will use this Road-Map as a toolkit in refining their own plans to manage noise.
Consultation on night flying restrictions
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The Confederation of British Industry has published its response to the Department of Transport’s consultation on night flying restrictions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.
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