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Conference on European Climate Change Adaptation. Lisbon, 10-12 March 2014
Posted on: 10 November 2014
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This was the final conference of the CIRCLE-2 project, marking 10 years of European cooperation in climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation research. The full conference report is now available, and is intended to contribute to the development of future research in support of climate change adaptation in Europe. All the conference outputs (presentations, videos, sketches, e-posters) are accessible in the CIRCLE-2 Adaptation Frontiers Report.
Know your flood risk
Posted on: 10 November 2014
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Know Your Flood Risk is a campaign with a mission to raise awareness of the risk of flooding from all sources, not just from the river, sea, or a visible water course.
Concrete. Part 2: Carbonation
Posted on: 10 November 2014
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This blog considers one of the common defects which affect concrete, that of carbonation.
A cycling vision
Posted on: 10 November 2014
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In the latest video from Crane.tv, architectural journalist and planner Peter Murray ruminates on the benefits of integrating cycling into the urban fabric of the world’s biggest cities.
Eltis: the urban mobility observatory
Posted on: 10 November 2014
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The European Commission has officially launched the enhanced Eltis website, Europe’s main observatory on urban mobility. The new Eltis has been re-designed and developed to make searching for and gathering valuable urban mobility tools and resources easier than before. The editorial content is being transformed; new case studies are being produced to a high standard, expertly written and focused on actions, results and what lessons can be learned for other cities. Plans for an overhaul and update of existing case studies are also underway. Eltis has also integrated the content from the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans website (formerly MobilityPlans.eu), including it in a new Mobility Plans section. This new section provides in-depth information on how to develop and implement mobility plans, with relevant guidelines, resources and a database of cities that are already involved.
Green to gold
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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GVA has published its fifth report in the Green to Gold series, a survey which investigates how fund managers and investors currently view and factor the risks attributable to rising sustainability regulation and market demands.
Residential property focus: 4th quarter 2014
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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This report from Savills considers the future of the housing market, including the level of house prices, changes in tenure and the impact of a possible mansion tax.
Just cities for children: Voices from urban slums
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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This report highlights World Vision’s experience in supporting children to express their ideas for a better city to key decision makers on a global platform, and in mainstreaming child participatory processes into its urban programmes. The paper analyses the ways in which children are able to contribute to safe, healthy, resilient and prosperous cities by influencing urban policies, processes and institutions that better reflect the diverse needs of children. It also addresses questions about children’s abilities to participate, and how this engagement takes into account their evolving capacities and vulnerabilities.
A world that counts: Mobilising the data revolution for sustainable development
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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The Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (IEAG) has completed a report on mobilizing the data revolution for sustainable development. The group consists of over 20 international experts, asked by the UN Secretary General to propose ways to improve data for achieving and monitoring sustainable development. The report highlights two big global challenges for the current state of data: the challenge of invisibility, for instance gaps in what we know and when we know it: and the challenge of inequality, including the gaps between those who know and those who do not know what they need to know make their own decisions. The IEAG report makes specific recommendations on how to address these challenges, calling for a UN-led effort to mobilise the data revolution for sustainable development.
Pink planning
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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The Centre for Policy Studies, a free market think-tank, has published a report which describes the UK’s planning system as “unwieldy” and “not fit for purpose”, stifling economic growth and limiting housing supply. The report calls for the setting up of “pink zones”, so-called because they would provide a diluted regulatory regime compared with the red tape that characterises the current paralysed planning system.
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