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Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?
Posted on: 17 September 2013
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Large-scale land acquisitions are increasing in pace and scale, in particular across parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Weak governance and poor land use planning mean that commercial ‘land grabs’ often damage biodiversity as well as dispossessing people from customary rights and livelihoods. Land can also be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential synergies. Expanded state protected areas, land for carbon offset markets and REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and for private conservation projects all potentially conflict with community rights. Such conflict is counter productive because secure customary and communal land tenure helps enable sustainable natural resource management by local communities. This briefing presents the experience of international development, wildlife and human rights practitioners, shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March 2013.
Social housing in the East: Challenges for the region and implications for the UK
Posted on: 17 September 2013
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The report from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research explores the realities of the new financial and welfare reform regimes for housing associations in the East region. It provides a grounded assessment of the challenges to be faced and the choices to be made. It suggests that the likely outcomes are some distance from what is required in housing supply terms in the region and that further thought must be given to the practical realities of the Government’s planned programmes.
Six steps to property level flood resilience: guidance to property owners
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This new and independent guidance aims to help local authorities and property owners to better protect households and properties from flooding. The guidance provides a step-by-step process to the use of technologies, from surveying properties through to the maintenance and operation of products. Guidance for local authorities and professionals is also available here.
London housing challenge
Posted on: 16 September 2013
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London Councils has issued a discussion paper which argues that more than 800,000 new homes need to be built in London within the next eight years and current construction levels would leave the capital with a housing shortage of 550,000. The group, which represents all 33 local authorities, has carried out a new analysis of Department for Communities and Local Government and Greater London Authority official housing statistics.
Water: Climate change impacts
Posted on: 16 September 2013
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The Water Climate Change Impacts Report card was published by the Living with Environmental Change Partnership, with contributions from over 30 academics and other stakeholders. The report card looks at the effect of climate change on fresh water, including rainfall, floods and droughts. It is intended to help people understand the scale of possible change and to help inform decisions about the way that water is managed. The water report card is mainly aimed at decision-makers who need to understand and plan for a changing water environment.
Ground breaking facade generates heat and biomass
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Design consultants, Arup have created this video explaining more about the development of an innovative facade system that generates biomass and heat for use in buildings.
Energy efficiency policies in the European Union
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The aim of this document is to provide insight into energy policy measures in each end-use sector in the EU (industry, transport and buildings), as well as at the overall policy level. It summarises three sectoral reports on industry, transport, buildings that are available on the ODYSSEE web site (www.odyssee-indicators.org). This should help policy makers and other parties involved in energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction to adapt current policies and to define new, effective policy measures. Although the main focus is on the improvement of energy efficiency, other drivers affecting the energy demand trend, such as industrial growth, structural changes, lifestyle changes, are also considered.
The Construction Scope 3 (Embodied) Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Guidance
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is aimed at helping professionals working within the construction industry to better understand and account for the embodied greenhouse gas emissions associated with construction; for example, those emissions relating to the extraction of raw materials and manufacture and transport of products used in new build and refurbishments.
Freiburg, Germany: Vauban Sustainable Urban District
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The Committee on Social Inclusion, through the Inclusive Cities Observatory has drawn up a case study on urban development policy carried out in the neighborhood of Vauban in Freiburg (Germany). The Vauban Sustainable Urban District process took place in the German city of Freiburg between 1993 and 2006. It is based on the city government’s aim of restoring an old military barracks based on ecological and social cohesion criteria, and creating a participatory process that would generate the NGO Forum Vauban and would have inter- and intra-administrative coordination structures to enable proposals emerging from the process to be implemented and permit a high degree of coordination between the public participation process and the local government.
RICS Economic Research: Summer 2013
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This note from RICS examines managing house price inflation with macroprudential tools.
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