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Airports Commission: Long-term hub capacity options
Posted on: 17 July 2013
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Heathrow Airport Limited has published its response to the Airport Commission, presenting three options for a third runway.
Roles of Pacific regional organizations in disaster risk management
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This report documents the current contributions of Pacific regional organizations to disaster risk management (DRM) and explores the potential for them to play more substantial and active roles in the future. Although regional mechanisms are playing increasingly important roles in DRM, there has been remarkably little research on their contributions and few published studies on their comparative advantages. At a global level, this recent Brookings study sought to address this gap by summarizing the work of more than thirty regional organizations involved in DRM, drawing some comparisons and generalizations about the work of thirteen in particular. The present study also seeks to address the gap through an in-depth assessment of the Pacific islands region.
European Conference on Mobility Management. Gavle, Sweden, 29-31 May 2013
Posted on: 17 July 2013
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This year’s conference saw many contributions on the rising sharing economy, the use of information technology and gamification to promote the shift away from the car, evidence of the financial and economic benefits of mobility management for society, and tools for cities to assess their sustainable urban mobility policies. Presentations are available online.
Real Estate Gazette
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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The Gazette is a quarterly publication from DLA Piper, containing articles and comments on recent legislation and case law affecting every aspect of real estate around the globe, including investment, finance, tax and corporate/funds issues, as well as planning/zoning, construction and dispute resolution. This issue turns the spotlight on data centres with articles from Thailand, Belgium, Russia and the UK. In addition we offer the usual mix of articles on global real estate matters. Among other topics, we look at new opportunities for investors in Poland’s shale gas and oil industry; consider the issue of transferability of construction rights in Turkey; examine the implications of new competition law legislation in the Middle East and discuss the tenant’s right to withdraw from non-terminable commercial lease agreements in Denmark.
Spending on transport infrastructure 1995-2011: Trends, policies, data
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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This report and a related database have been released by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. The 2013 edition of the Forum’s annual statistics update presents aggregate trends in inland transport infrastructure investment and maintenance since 1995 and provides data on road, rail, inland waterway, sea port and airport spending for the International Transport Forum member countries for the period 1995-2011.
Managing the land in a changing climate
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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This report, a progress report from the Adaptation Sub-Committee, reviews some of the key ecosystem services provided by the land. Specifically, the report addresses the use of land to continue to deliver important goods and services in the face of a changing climate, supplying food and timber, providing habitat for wildlife, storing carbon in the soil, and coping with sea level rise on the coast. It explores the extent to which decisions about the land are helping the country to prepare for climate change.
Quality of government and the returns of investment: Examining the impact of cohesion expenditure in European regions
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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This paper sets out to examine the impact of the quality of local and regional governments on the returns of investment, focusing on the returns of EU structural and cohesion funds. Despite the widespread belief that the quality of government affects the returns of public investments, whether this is effectively the case has seldom been proved. The results of the analysis underline the importance of the quality of government both as a direct determinant of economic growth, as well as a moderator of the efficiency of structural and cohesion funds expenditure. The analysis finds that both EU investments targeting regions and quality of government make a difference for regional economic growth, but that above a significant threshold level of expenditure, the quality of government is the key factor determining the returns of public investment. In many of the regions receiving the bulk of structural funds, greater levels of cohesion expenditure would, in the best case scenario, only lead to a marginal improvement in economic growth, unless the quality of government is significantly enhanced.
Opportunities & challenges for the railway:
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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The Office of Rail Regulation has published a statement which sets the framework for financing and delivering improvements in the infrastructure and operation of Britain’s railway during the period 2014-2019.
Keeping work: Longitudinal qualitative research on homeless people’s experiences of starting and staying in work.
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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This research shows that work can be a central part of the journey away from homelessness: building self-esteem, enabling financial independence and bringing a sense of meaning and possibility to people’s lives. However, only around two to 14% of people living in homelessness accommodation work. This research aimed to explore how more homeless people can be supported to move into and stay in work, through in-depth interviews with 50 homeless people over up to their first year after starting a new job.
Public Procurement of Innovation Platform
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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The Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) Platform has been launched. The platform is a brand new system that aims to make public procurement of innovation a wide-spread reality in Europe. The Platform has been developed to help public authorities, procurers, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders harness the power of PPI.
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