Housing the nation: Financing new homes. London, 19 December 2012

Posted on: 29 January 2013
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The event considered how local councils can make the most of the opportunity self-financing presents to invest in new and existing homes and what more needs to be done to provide local authorities with the financial freedoms they need to play their role in bringing forward the homes that are needed. Presentations are available online.

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Cities of tomorrow, action today. Copenhagen, 3-5 December 2012

Posted on: 24 January 2013
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URBACT’s Annual Conference considered the following topics: cohesive and sustainable cities; creating a resilient and inclusive economy; and  governance. Presentations and reports are available online.

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Disasters and environment: Science, preparedness and resilience. Washington, D.C., 15-17 January 2013

Posted on: 24 January 2013
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At this event over 1,200 leaders from the emergency response, scientific, policy, conservation, and business communities, as well as federal and local government officials, met to address themes such as cascading disasters, the intersection of the built and natural environments, disasters as mechanisms of ecosystem change, rethinking recovery and expanding the vision of mitigation, human behavior and its consequences. Articles and videos are available online.

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Financial markets, institutions and policies in the context of sustainable development: Dimensions, issues and actors of an emerging arena. Brussels, 22-23 November 2012

Posted on: 23 January 2013
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The workshop intended to scope the mechanisms and operational design of financial markets, explore the functional and dysfunctional aspects in a sustainable development  perspective and, on this basis, develop concrete fields of action for sustainable development policy related to financing, financial markets and finance governance. Full workshop documentation, including the background paper, the workshop report, the PowerPoint slides and videos of the presentations is available online.

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The 40 percent symposium: Understanding the impact of sustainability on commercial property value and investment. London, 28 November 2012

Posted on: 8 January 2013
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The 40 Percent Symposium is described as the key event for the commercial property sector and for all senior executives looking to manage the impact and realise the value of sustainability in their property portfolios.  It provides practical advice and examples for developing a sustainability strategy to support value, measure and improve the performance of property assets and demonstrate credibility to stakeholders, customers and your employees. Presentations are available online.

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Electric city. London, 6-7 December 2012

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The 11^th Urban Age Conference focused on the “Electric city”, a detailed investigation of how the combined forces of technological innovation and the global environmental crisis are affecting human society. Videos of the event presentations are available online.

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Quietening the environment for a sustainable surface transport (QUIESS). Brussels, 10 December 2012

Posted on: 8 January 2013
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The QUIESST Consortium, after 3 years of intensive research in Noise Reducing Devices (NRD), presented the results of its work and launched the “QUIESST Guidebook” an essential tool for any NRD’s manufacturers and end-users willing to optimise his products and their use. Presentations are available online.

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Reducing transport noise in cities: CityHush final expert seminar and city workshop. Stockholm, 11 December 2012

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The European CityHush project supports city administrations with the development and implementation of noise action plans according to the directive EC 2002/49. Noise action plans made with existing technology suffer from major shortcomings: there is a poor correlation between hot spots and annoyance and complaints, most measures lead to increased emissions, and only indoor noise comfort is addressed. In order to reduce noise in city environments, CityHush developed suitable problem identification and evaluation tools and designed noise reduction solutions for hot spots that show a high correlation with annoyance and complaints. The final results on research and recommendations regarding quiet zones, noise score rating models, low-noise vehicles, low-noise road surfaces, and noise barriers were discussed at this conference. Presentations are available online.

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European Network for Housing Research Conference 2011. Toulouse, 5-8 July 2011

Posted on: 8 January 2013
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The main theme of this conference was Mixité” (“Mixité”:an urban and housing issue?).While many researchers have reservations about a certain ideal of diversity that is supposed to banish the evils afflicting contemporary societies (segregation, ghettoisation, the disintegration of social ties), they also question the normative or prescriptive dimensions of the injunction for social diversity that inspire a number of public policy acts. Mobilising debate and analysis of researchers from various countries is of quite some interest in that Europe, as a whole, encompasses different views of what it means to live together.  Papers are available online.

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Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery. Brussels, 7 December 2012

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The EU Transport White Paper requires swift implementation. So far, the lack of progress in EU transport policy has been partly due to the fact that there has been insufficient involvement of civil society in both policy-making and policy implementation, and any involvement there has been has not been adequately structured. This conference aimed to assess the weaknesses in current practice and propose new means of getting the civil society on board. It also provided insight into the forms that a truly cooperation-based decision-making process could take at different levels of governance (European, national and local). Presentations are available online.

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