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UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2014
Posted on: 6 June 2014
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This document presents a concise overview of international tourism in the world based on the results for the year 2013. The booklet includes: key trends in international tourism in 2013; results by (sub)region and country of destination; the world’s top tourism destinations; outbound tourism by region and top spenders; and long-term forecast: Tourism towards 2030.
Funding housing and local growth: how a British investment bank can help
Posted on: 6 June 2014
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The Smith Institute has published a report calling for a bank jointly owned by central and local government to support urban extensions. The think tank researched state investment in banks across western Europe, and concluded that a similar system could help combat the shortage of housing in the UK.
Visits to counties and towns
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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Excel tables showing how many visits were made by overseas residents to the UK’s counties and towns. Info on the number of nights they stayed and spend data is also available.
Climate change adaptation manual: evidence to support nature conservation in a changing climate
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service and the Forestry Commission have published a new resource for conservation practitioners. The manual is a hands-on document giving up-to-date, detailed, habitat-specific information for conservation managers to use, to prepare and respond to a changing climate. It is divided into three sections, focusing on: the key concepts for making decisions about adaptation and the impact of climate change on the natural environment; climate change impacts and potential adaptation responses for 27 of England’s most important habitats; and the relationship between climate change and the delivery of ecosystem services.
Thinking spatially: Why places need to be at the heart of policy-making in the twenty-first century
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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This document, published by the Royal Town Planning Institute, seeks to address the global challenges we face: rapid population and urbanization, stretching our capacity to provide adequate housing, energy, water; climate change; the unbalanced nature of economic growth; sprawl; and political unrest. Research and practice has established that issues are inter-related and that our responses to them need to be related. Crucially the RTPI holds that by thinking spatially the connections and the solutions to the challenges become more apparent. The paper contains one central message, as our call to action for everyone involved in public policy: policy needs to be more integrated and strategic through a better understanding of the differences between places.
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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The need for more sustainable and integrative planning processes, particularly also in sectors related to urban mobility, has been widely recognised. At European level, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans have gained increased recognition and importance. The European Commission has initiated this European Sustainable Urban Transport Platform to accelerate the large scale uptake of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans by competent authorities in Europe.
The cost of air pollution: Health impacts of road transport
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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Based on extensive new epidemiological evidence since the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, and OECD estimates of the Value of Statistical Life, this report provides evidence on the health impacts from air pollution and the related economic costs.
Safe development of housing on contaminated land
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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The government has published guidance on the development of housing on land affected by contamination. This guidance has been published to promote the adoption of good practice in the identification, investigation, assessment and remedial treatment of land affected by contamination so that development for housing can be undertaken safely and with confidence that no unacceptable risks remain. It reflects the new regulatory regime for contaminated land set out in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act. It is aimed at house builders and developers, planning advisers, designers, financiers, and insurers and planning and regulatory authorities which must consider contamination in the context of their own statutory responsibilities.
Local Sustainable Transport Fund annual report 2012 to 2013
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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This is the second annual report for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. It highlights the achievements made during the second financial year (2012 to 2013), which was the first year that all 96 projects were in receipt of funding. It provides some top-level cross-programme figures, including a brief analysis of how much has been invested in each transport mode. It also provides some accountability to show how public funds have been invested towards important local, national and international goals.
Street-led city-wide slum upgrading
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This lecture proposes a fundamental shift in addressing the problems of slums, and suggests an approach that focuses on streets as the engine for urban transformation. The strategy brought forward by Claudio Acioly, from UN-Habitat, uses streets as the natural conduits that connect slums spatially and physically with the city and treats streets not only as physical entity for mobility and accessibility, through which water and sewerage pipes, power lines, and drainage systems are laid, but as the common good and the public domain where social, cultural and economic activities are articulated, reinforced and facilitated. A video and links to background material are included.
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