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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
Posted on: 16 September 2013
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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
Posted on: 16 September 2013
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This note from RICS examines managing house price inflation with macroprudential tools.
HS2 property compensation
Posted on: 13 September 2013
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This consultation seeks your views on the government’s proposals for property compensation schemes proposed along the HS2 Phase One line of route between London and the West Midlands.
Poundbury today
Posted on: 13 September 2013
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In 1993 Prince Charles laid the founding stones for the 400-acre Poundbury development at Dorchester. This new “urban village” eschews modernist planning principles and auto-dependent suburban housing in favor of a diverse, walkable mixed-use traditional model. Now half complete, it is possible to evaluate how well the original goals are being achieved.
Creative solutions for our cities: Handbook of innovations for cities and regions
Posted on: 13 September 2013
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This handbook gives an overview of tangible, innovative solutions that promote the balanced development and transformation of our cities, covering all main topics from water, waste, energy and mobility to information, urban planning, training and new services for citizens.
The upper floor: Vertical mobility in the city. Lisbon, 2-4 September 2013
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The concept of urban mobility is built on the idea that movement in town is not only a technical issue but also a social issue that has to deal with urban practice, spatial behaviour, and relation to the environment. Urban mobility invites cities stakeholders to enlarge their vision of urban transportation to a more systemic and global approach: movement in town cannot be understand without taking into account the technical conditions of moving (urban transportation), the organization of activities (urban structure), the daily practice of inhabitants and visitors (urban society), the quality of space (urban landscape) and the measures taken by decision-makers to shape the city (urban policy). More than a concept, urban mobility is a framework, meaning a basis to build new relations between people and space, and to propose more services to the inhabitants. The first two days of the workshop was by invitation only, and the following seminar open to the public, are part of the program of the World Mobility Week. The workshop focused on the case of Lisbon to discuss and design a project redefining mobility in a complex topographic environment. Technical solutions are many, ranging from surface equipment or air system to mixed solutions (stairs, ramps, passages, lifts, funicular), etc. Presentations are available online.
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