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Global demand for English higher education: An analysis of international-student entry to English higher-education courses
Posted on: 14 April 2014
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The number of international students enrolling in English universities has dropped for the first time in nearly three decades, interrupting a long-term trend of double-digit growth, according to a report by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. It examines recent shifts in enrollment patterns and discusses their possible causes.
Prime Residential Retreats
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This first edition of Prime Residential Retreats looks at a selection of the most popular and widely invested resorts and hotspots around the Mediterranean, the Alps, South Africa and the Caribbean.
E:gen: April 2014
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This issue on the occasional newsletter from Winkworth Sherwood looks at the topic of collateral warranties, the latest on affordable home ownership schemes, as well as the impact of the recent floods on developers and the resources available to prevent risk.
Biodiversity offsetting: From theory to practice. Birmingham, 18 March 2014
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This conference explored the lessons learnt from recent biodiversity offsetting experiences here and abroad and look at how, as practising ecologists and environmental managers, we can support delivery of a biodiversity offsetting approach to manage the risks and truly deliver benefit for biodiversity. Presentations are available online.
Down under placemaking
Posted on: 11 April 2014
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For decades, Melbourne has been the hotbed of experimentation and innovation that has attracted new thinking, new leadership, enlightened developers and progressive governance. An Integrated Placemaking approach, which Melbourne-based Village Well has developed and implemented for the past 22 years is explored with specific case studies. The retrofitting of Melbourne Central, a city mall, made it into a real place, creating one of the world’s great markets. The activation of the Melbourne Laneways caused the once lifeless laneways to become the city’s number one tourist attraction, and the development of the Docklands, a vast urban renewal project, doubled the city’s footprint.
Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions
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Scaling up retrofit presents a number of critical challenges for the transition to urban sustainability. Drawing together insights from the EPSRC Retrofit 2050 project, this briefing sets out key success factors that need to be in place to deliver sustainable futures for UK cities.
Building for wellness: The business case
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The economic benefits of building healthy places are outlined in a new publication from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The report examines the investment payback on incorporating amenities that promote health and wellness, how developers have pursued this objective, and the resulting market response. The report was prepared as part of ULI’s Building Healthy Places initiative, a two-year global program of work that seeks to raise awareness of the connections between health and the built environment, and to encourage the development of communities that are conducive to healthy living. Building for Wellness profiles 13 completed projects from around the world, including ten in the U.S., two in Asia Pacific and one in Europe, each representing one of three development strategies: renovation / redevelopment, new construction and master-planned communities.
100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge
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The Rockefeller Foundation launched the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge in 2013 to enable 100 cities to better address the increasing shocks and stresses of the 21st century. Nearly 400 cities across six continents applied to be among the 100 cities selected to receive technical support and resources to improve their urban resilience over three years. In addition to membership in the newly formed 100 Resilient Cities Network, the selected cities will receive support from the Rockefeller Foundation to create and implement a resilience plan and to hire a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) to oversee the resilience strategy. The first class of 32 cities was announced on December 3, 2013, selected by judges with unique expertise on tools and strategies that make a city better prepared to face natural and manmade disaster.
The post 2015 Hyogo Framework for Action: Managing risks to achieve resilience
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The European Commission has set out its primary vision on how the European Union should contribute to the global efforts to reduce the impact of disasters. The Commission has adopted a Communication on The Post 2015 Hyogo Framework for Action: Managing Risks to achieve Resilience. This document is the basis for upcoming discussions between the Member States, the European Parliament and other stakeholders who will work on a common EU position for the global negotiations at the level of the United Nations. These talks will focus on how to mitigate the impact of natural and man-made disasters and to build a new framework for disaster risk reduction – the so-called post 2015 Hyogo Framework for Action. The European Commission has also published related Staff Working Documents: EU Policies contributing to Disaster Risk Management, available here and Overview of natural and man-made disaster risks in the EU available here.
Flood risks in London
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The London Assembly Environment Committee has published a report which argues that properties housing 140,000 people in London are at high risk of surface flooding and 24,000 properties are at significant risk of river flooding.
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