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LiFE (Learning in Future Environments)
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LiFE is the full redeveloped, rebranded and relaunched Universities that Count programme. It is a unique, comprehensive performance management and benchmarking tool developed specifically to help colleges and universities manage, measure, improve and promote their social responsibility and sustainability performance.
Case studies on sustainable development
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ICLEI Case Studies profile locally-based projects that support sustainability. Eleven new ICLEI Case Studies, numbers 127-137, demonstrate the ability of local governments to involve stakeholders in improving local biodiversity. The 11 practical examples were collected by ICLEI Japan and ICLEI Southeast Asia in preparation of the local government input to the UN Conference of the Parties on Biological Diversity (COP 10) in Nagoya in October 2010. The new case studies showcase urban biodiversity projects in Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Thailand. They cover themes such as the creation of botanical gardens on spoilt lands, mangrove conversation, soil and water conversation, the greening of urban spaces, green tax incentives and coastal management.
Urban sustainability: learning from the best
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This report presents a catalogue of best practices of the eight finalists for the European Green Capital Award 2010 and 2011. These eight cities have shown that they can lead the way in environmentally friendly urban living and act as role-models to inspire other cities within the field of sustainable urban development. The eight shortlisted finalists were: Amsterdam, Bristol, Copenhagen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Münster, Oslo and Stockholm. In this catalogue, best practice examples are given within the 10 environmental indicator areas on which the cities were evaluated. The indicator areas are: Local contribution to global climate change; Local mobility and passenger transportation; Availability of local public open areas; Quality of local ambient air; Noise pollution; Waste production and management; Water consumption; Waste water management; Environmental management of the local authority; Sustainable land use. The aim of this best practice catalogue is to share experiences and visions as well as inspire European cities to introduce measures within these 10 areas to the benefit of their citizens at the same time reducing their impact to local and global environmental problems.
State of the countryside update: Market towns
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The Commission for Rural Communities has published a report which highlights the importance of market towns for many rural areas. They act as a hub for rural economic and service activity and are therefore at the centre of changes currently taking place in rural England. The report argues that the current rural and urban definition, upon which most government spatial analysis is based, omits the separate consideration of small, medium and large sized towns. This has meant that statistics have not tracked social and economic trends as they impact towns. Perhaps as a result, towns have been generally overlooked from both a research and policy perspective. This update seeks to address this gap by studying a range of topics covering broad themes of population, services, business health, employment and deprivation.
Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE) Research Dialogues
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The long-awaited SUE Research Dialogues report is now available. The report take a close look at the EPSRC’s multi-million pound SUE Programme, examining its achievements, wider impact, and future. The SUE Research Dialogues Workshop was designed to bring together the academics funded under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Sustainable Urban Environment (SUE) Programme. These academics came from a wide range of disciplines that had been brought together by EPSRC to collaborate on research into sustainable urban environments with the overarching purposes of: improving the quality of life of UK citizens; supporting the sustainable development of the UK economy; and meeting the needs of users of EPSRC funded research in industry, commerce and the service sector. The Workshop sought to determine what the future of the research capacity developed by the SUE Programme might be.
Events and urban renewal: Resource guide
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This resource guide focuses upon events as a catalyst for urban renewal. In the wake of deindustrialisation and economic restructuring throughout Western Europe, there has been a concerted effort to deploy innovative and creative strategies to address the most pressing issues of urban regeneration. Cultural and sporting events have been used as mechanism in broader urban regeneration strategies, as illustrated by the hosting of European Cities of Culture (e.g. Glasgow, Porto, Dublin, and Liverpool), Commonwealth Games (e.g. Manchester, Glasgow) and the Olympic Games (e.g. London). In this regard, events can be used in a broader urban regeneration strategy. This has led to a substantial growth of academic study in this area, particularly in the last twenty years.
Culture and regeneration: What evidence is there of a link and how could it be measured?
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Despite much research, there have been few comprehensive evaluations of culture-led regeneration schemes and so a good evidence base does not exist. A review of the limited evidence shows mixed results and much uncertainty of the impact of culture-led regeneration. The Greater London Authority has published a working paper which argues that current evaluation measures are not appropriate for understanding the long-term and dynamic changes that regeneration schemes may cause and instead these schemes should be monitored, focusing on both people and places.
Housing scandal! Pathfinder: a post-mortem
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SAVE Britain’s Heritage has published a report which is critical of the discontinued Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinder programme. The report includes a paragraph-by-paragraph critique of the recent Audit Commission report by researcher Bill Finlay, and an introduction by planner and Liverpool resident Jonathan Brown, detailing the effects of the scheme in his city. SAVE’s report makes the following recommendations: new funding should be targeted mainly at repair and refurbishment; Mega-Social-Landlords driven by development ambitions must be brought under tight democratic control to make them better neighbours; area-based retro-fit to high environmental standards will help renew market confidence and generate economic opportunity in deprived areas much more effectively than expensive HMR quangos; the constitutional implications of Compulsory Purchase Order powers over private home owners need to be carefully reviewed by Parliament; a more respectful approach to deprived neighbourhoods that does not assume those with power necessarily know best is required.
Game on: Mega-event infrastructure opportunities
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This paper from PricewaterhouseCoopers argues that the transformative effect of well-thought-out supporting infrastructure has long-lasting economic, demographic, and social implications for the entire region.
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