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Global report on adventure tourism
Posted on: 4 December 2014
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Adventure tourism has grown exponentially worldwide over the past years with tourists visiting destinations previously undiscovered. This allows for new destinations to market themselves as truly unique, appealing to those travellers looking for rare, incomparable experiences. Against this backdrop, this report offers a thorough insightful analysis of the current and future adventure travel sector, providing global trends and structural knowledge on a significant, growing market, which is rapidly expanding, particularly in these new destinations.
Prime Central London Rental Index: November 2014
Posted on: 4 December 2014
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Knight Frank’s Prime Central London Rental Index has tracked the performance of London’s prime rental market since 1995. Compiled quarterly, the index is based on the valuation of a comprehensive basket of properties throughout our central London office network and is based on rental evidence.
PATA Conversations
Posted on: 4 December 2014
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PATA Conversations is a monthly, digital publication focusing on the travel industry within the Asia Pacific region and beyond. This digital magazine features curated interviews with the industry’s greatest minds and decision makers, from CEOs to corporate travel planners to on-the-ground tour guides, sharing their insight into travel trends, education and personal achievement.
3 climate adaptation lessons from Brazil’s cities
Posted on: 4 December 2014
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As part of a new stream of work under the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, a team visited three Brazilian state capitals: Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Brasília. These cities are already exploring how they can build communities that are resilient to flooding, drought, and other climate impacts. Discussions with officials underscored three adaptation policy and planning needs in Brazil: mobilizing networks and resources, leveraging governance and people, and harnessing data and tools.
Implementing a low-carbon resilient development agenda: lessons from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Rwanda
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Rwanda are at the forefront of developing national plans that address elements of both climate change mitigation and adaptation with a low carbon resilient development (LCRD) agenda. This briefing explores the experience of LCRD planning in each country using interviews, analysis of policy documents and surveys to draw lessons for other countries seeking to integrate mitigation and adaptation into their national plans. Establishing a national consensus on what is understood by LCRD is shown to be important in building stakeholder support for any proposed LCRD agenda, as is clearly defining which co-benefits are being targeted. It is also clear that LCRD planning will need better access to high quality information on climate change planning and new policy approaches.
Towards an urban agenda on climate-related loss and damage
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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The impacts of climate change in cities are already being felt as loss and damage, due to the lack of capacity of many cities to implement the necessary adaptive and disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures, and the vulnerability of large proportions of urban residents, particularly in developing countries. This paper represents a first attempt to raise some of the issues associated with climate-related loss and damage in urban areas in the global south. It reviews some of the key drivers that will shape the nature and extent of loss and damage in urban areas, explores some of the economic and non-economic approaches to loss and damage that might be taken, discusses some of the key communication challenges around the topic, and identifies some of the information and data gaps and next steps that need to be taken.
Flood and coastal risk management: long-term investment scenarios 2014
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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This provides an assessment of how different investment scenarios could affect future flood and coastal erosion risks in England over a 50 year period.
Mind the data gap: Aspiration vs. reality in corporate real estate
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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In June 2014, JLL commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the extent to which the adoption and use of data and analytics within the corporate real estate (CRE) function can support overarching business goals. Forrester Consulting surveyed 392 executives across 11 countries and 10 industries. This study provides insights into how the corporate real estate function is responding to the ‘data-driven economy,’ key challenges faced and what CRE leaders can do to realize the competitive advantages of a data-centric organization.
Compact cities policies: Korea
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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This report examines Korea’s urban policies and offers customised policy recommendations based on the OECD publication, Compact City Policies (2012). This volume aims to provide “food for thought” for national, sub-national and municipal governments in Korea seeking to address urban challenges through improving urban spatial structure, and to find how compact city strategy could contribute to enhancing urban policy.
Low carbon design aims high
Posted on: 3 December 2014
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This blog argues that smart buildings and a fresh approach to urban planning could herald a brighter future for the world’s fastest-growing cities. It examines the recently completed H2 low carbon building in Tianjin, China, It is a mixed-use development which includes offices, shops, restaurants and exhibition spaces and is one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the country.
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