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National Adaptation Programme
Posted on: 2 July 2013
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The National Adaptation Programme report sets out what leading businesses, councils and communities, as well as government, are doing to tackle climate threats. The Programme is divided into chapters looking at the: Built environment; Infrastructure; Healthy and resilient communities; Agriculture and forestry; Natural environment; and Business and local government. A separate analytical annex contains the current evidence base for adaptation decision-making. It presents the analysis that informs the National Adaptation Programme’s approach to adaptation to climate change.
The Knowledge Navigator: Your guide to key climate change platforms
Posted on: 2 July 2013
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The ever-growing number of knowledge sharing platforms on climate change and development has meant that users of climate knowledge are often unsure which services are most appropriate to their needs. Eldis has recently added a new interactive tool, the Knowledge Navigator, to the Climate Change Resource Guide which aims to help users tackle this problem.
London Planning Officers’ attitudes towards recent planning regulation changes
Posted on: 1 July 2013
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In a survey of 20 London boroughs carried out by Sitematch London, more than half (53 per cent) of planners said the National Planning Policy Framework has had no beneficial effects in their borough. This compared to 26 per cent who thought it had helped, and 21 per cent who were unsure.
Profitability and the air transport value chain
Posted on: 1 July 2013
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The purpose of this study is to provide updated quantitative analysis of profitability along the air transport value chain, in order to inform the debate and suggest actions to improve the persistently poor profitability of the airline industry.
Designation Yearbook 2012-13: New highlights from the National Heritage List for England
Posted on: 1 July 2013
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This volume presents a national overview of this year’s harvest of new designations. These cover the whole country, and cover the complete range of assets – from wrecks to post-war office buildings; from medieval moated sites to early concrete-framed factories.
The Urban Biosphere Initiative (URBIS)
Posted on: 1 July 2013
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The Urban Biosphere (URBIS) Initiative has launched a new website, with an interactive map, providing an online resource platform on sustainable urban development and effective biodiversity management. Users can obtain efficient access to publications, guidelines as well as case studies from around the world (which can be conveniently searched for by location, Aichi Target and/or by ecosystem service addressed.
National environmental performance on planetary boundaries
Posted on: 28 June 2013
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This report examines whether and how the planetary boundaries framework offers tools and perspectives on how to work with the two-way interaction between Swedish and global environmental pressures and performance described above. The planetary boundaries concept was presented in 2009 and provides a novel synthesis of the most pertinent global environmental challenges by analysing the risk of crossing critical thresholds in the behaviour of the Earth system’s processes. The report claims to provide a first attempt to develop a methodology for downscaling planetary boundaries to nationally relevant ones.
HCA Corporate Plan 2013-15
Posted on: 28 June 2013
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This Corporate Plan is focused on the remaining years of the spending review (2013-2015). The Homes and Communities Agency’s activity in future years will depend in part of decisions made as part of the 2015/16 Spending Round, including the response to the Heseltine review and the introduction of the single local growth fund from 2015. For this reason, the outcome of these and their implications to the HCA will be covered in next year’s Corporate Plan or, if appropriate, through an addendum to this plan published later in the year.
Infrastructure Cost Review: Annual Report 2012-2013
Posted on: 28 June 2013
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The Government has published the second annual report of the 3 year Infrastructure Cost Review programme launched in March 2011 to radically transform the way the UK delivers infrastructure.
Trip and accommodation booking methods
Posted on: 28 June 2013
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The latest monthly issue of Foresight from Visit Britain looks at the methods used for booking trips and accommodation by those visiting the UK.
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