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Climate resilience and disaster risk management: Stories of change from CDKN
Posted on: 16 May 2013
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This newsletter highlights the work of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network regarding climate resilience and disaster resilience management.
Crossrail2
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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Transport for London (TfL) and Network Rail (NR) are seeking the views of people in London and south east England on Crossrail 2. Crossrail 2 would create a new high-frequency, high-capacity rail line running between south west and north east London. Crossrail 2 replaces an earlier scheme known as the Chelsea-Hackney Line. Comments are requested by 2 August 2013.
Competing for urban land
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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This is the third in a series of synthesis reports produced by URBAN-NEXUS. These Reports are intended mainly for municipalities, policy-makers and businesses engaged in urban issues. This report that addresses the challenges of growing and shrinking cities, focusing on three dimensions: socio-cultural space, green-blue infrastructure and building mass and physical structure. Drawing on numerous examples from cities all over the world, the report argues that the distribution of land use can be understood as a contest between diverse interests in a context of asymmetrical power relations, and offered a number of recommendations for building better, more liveable cities.
Transition management in urban context
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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This practical manual is aimed at inspiring and guiding city officers who work on creating a sustainable future for their city. It introduces Transition Management, a governance approach that aims to influence the pace and direction of societal change dynamics. The approach is illustrated by experiences from five European cities working on energy transition, including Ghent (Belgium), Montreuil (France), Aberdeen (Scotland), Ludwigsburg (Germany) and Rotterdam (Netherlands).
Toward global (environ)mental change: Transformative art and cultures of sustainability
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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This paper, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, explores the causes of the global sustainability crisis from a unique and interesting angle. It argues that the search for a more sustainable development in the ‘developed’ world has, so far, been focusing too much on hardware updates, such as new technologies, economic incentives, policies and regulations. By doing so we have forgotten about the need for “software revisions”, that is cultural transformations affecting our ways of knowing, learning, valuing and acting together. The paper highlights the potential of art in changing current mindsets and fostering a sensibility to Nature-Culture’s dynamic complexity.
Raising the capital: The report of the London Finance Commission
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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This is the final report of the London Finance Commission. The Commission was established by the Mayor after his election in May 2012 to help improve the tax and public spending arrangements for London in order to promote jobs and growth. The report argues that funding arrangements in London should allow London government to make additional self-determined investments in its own infrastructure both to cater for the growth already forecast for its population and economy, and to promote additional economic growth.
Green economy and trade: Trends, challenges and opportunities
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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A new report from the UN Environment Programme argues that developing countries with abundant renewable resources are well-positioned to capitalize on the opportunities provided by “green” products to increase their share in international markets for sustainable goods and services. The report analyses six economic sectors – agriculture, fisheries, forests, manufacturing, renewable energy and tourism – where trade opportunities exist, and identifies measures, such as policy reforms and certification, that can help developing countries benefit from these markets. These chapters can be downloaded individually.
Collaborative research for a changing climate
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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The Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate Coordination Network (ARCC CN) has published a guide to the collaborative process, based on the experiences of stakeholders and researchers from across the ARCC projects. Effective collaboration between all involved in a research project is essential to maximising the usefulness and value of outputs. This can be difficult to achieve where participants are drawn from different disciplines, cultures, and with a variety of motivations. The main report suggests that a flexible, open working relationship between researchers and stakeholders, established early and sustained throughout the project lifetime, is essential. So too is investing time and energy in understanding the value, expectations and contributions that all parties bring to the project.
Securing our economy: The case for infrastructure
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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The Centre for Economic and Business Research, on behalf of the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, has published a report identifying the impact new infrastructure has on the wider economy.
Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities
Posted on: 15 May 2013
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The Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities (RFSC) is an online toolkit designed to help cities promote and enhance their work on integrated sustainable urban development. It is available free of charge to all European local authorities and offers practical support in integrating sustainability principles into local policies and actions. A joint initiative of the Member States, the European Commission and European organizations of local governments, the RFSC gives a common space and language to the community of cities that are interested in learning from each other, while respecting the diversity of local priorities.
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