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Southern voices on climate policy choices
Posted on: 11 June 2012
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This report provides an analysis of the tools and tactics advocacy groups use to influence policy responses to climate change at international, regional, national and sub-national levels. More than 20 climate networks and their member organisations have contributed to the report with their experiences of advocacy on climate change, including over 70 case studies from a wide range of countries – including many of the poorest – in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.
Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
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This publication, produced in collaboration with WWF Southern Africa, looks at how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change. It provides a framework for analysing the two approaches at conceptual and practical levels.
State of the Nation: Water 2012
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State of the Nation reports have been compiled each year since 2000 by panels of experts drawn from across the Institution of Civil Engineers membership and beyond. The aim of the State of the Nation report is to stimulate debate in society, influence governments’ policies and highlight the actions that we believe are needed to improve the state of the nation’s infrastructure and associated services. This report focuses on the issue of water.
Housing the Nation
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The Local Government Association has launched a Housing the Nation campaign which seeks to persuade government of the need to give councils greater freedoms and financial control over house building.
Parades to be proud of: Strategies to support local shops
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This good practice and guidance brings together strategies that people have used to improve parades of shops in their own areas that might be useful in other locations.
Parades of shops: Towards an understanding of performance and prospects
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Existing research makes little reference to the performance of retail and service activities at the level of neighbourhood parades. This research seeks to build a picture – for the first time – of some of the key facts relating to neighbourhood shopping parades, highlighting common themes and good practice.
Cities, health and well-being
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The 2011 Urban Age Hong Kong conference, organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Alfred Herrhausen Society in partnership with the University of Hong Kong, brought together over 170 planners, architects, sociologists, medical doctors, public health experts and economists from 36 cities and 22 countries to help identify the routes through which new meanings, methods and interventions for health and well-being might be developed for greater effect in today’s cities. This report provides one entry point into the conference discussions, in addition to the videos, presentations and publications already available online.
Visit London’s leisure tourism marketing campaigns: economic impact evaluations
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This paper estimates the economic impacts of leisure marketing campaigns conducted by Visit London in North America, Europe and Australia for London and the UK. This research enhances the methodology originally developed in Working Paper 46, refining both the assessment of the economic benefits of Visit London activity as well as the costs (both direct and indirect) of campaign activity. The enhanced methodology is tested for the first time outside of the North American market.
Acting today for tomorrow: a policy and practice note for climate and disaster resilient development in the pacific islands region
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This policy and practice note presents some analysis and recommendations meant to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) planning across a range of institutions at all levels. It grows out of extensive consultations with countries, regional organizations, and donors and other development partners, and it is addressed primarily to high-level policymakers and decision makers within them.
Measurement for management: CDP Cities 2012 Global Report
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has issued a report which contains analysis by technical and management support services firm AECOM, presenting a global snapshot of the activities, challenges and opportunities facing cities as a result of climate change. It is based on the carbon and water strategies and actions disclosed to CDP by 73 cities spanning every inhabited continent. The report also contains a special focus on the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network of the world’s largest cities working to reduce urban carbon emissions and accelerate climate change adaptation.
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