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Transportation Research Board
Posted on: 18 September 2014
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The mission of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) is to promote innovation and progress in transportation through research. In an objective and interdisciplinary setting, TRB facilitates the sharing of information on transportation practice and policy by researchers and practitioners; stimulates research and offers research management services that promote technical excellence; provides expert advice on transportation policy and programs; and disseminates research results broadly and encouraged their implementation.
Energy solutions for smart cities and communities: Recommendations for policy makers
Posted on: 18 September 2014
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This report provides recommendations for the development of proposals for future policies at EU, national and local level regarding energy efficiency and use of renewable energy in buildings, urban development and sustainable communities in general. It is designed as a reference manual on key findings from CONCERTO, an EU-funding programme supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects at neighbourhood level within 58 sites in 23 countries. The projects have been analysed regarding their CO2-reduction, energy efficiency and use of renewable energy.
Broken market, broken dreams
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This report from the National Housing Federation reveals that first-time buyers today have to earn more, borrow more, stump up a larger deposit and rely more on family wealth than even a generation ago.
An environmental scorecard
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The House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee undertook this inquiry to establish a clearer picture of the state of the environment in England. In 2010 the National Audit Office produced for the Committee a briefing report on the state of environmental protection in 10 areas, which showed gaps in performance in a number of them. In this inquiry the Committee has sought to examine progress on those environmental areas, and the use of policy levers which could help to secure improvements. The focus has been on the position domestically rather than globally.
Better growth, better climate: The new climate economy report
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The new report by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argues that cities are one of three key systems of the economy which offer an opportunity to produce greater efficiency, structural transformation and technological change.
Regulation for water quality: How to safeguard the water environment
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Three senior specialists are publishing a new book which shares the UK and EU’s water regulatory expertise with developing countries. Together the team have over 80 years of experience of water regulation and were influential in setting up the UK water and environment regulatory and permitting systems. They worked to develop and implement EU Water Directives including the Water Framework.
Hotels in India: Trends and opportunities
Posted on: 18 September 2014
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The Trends & Opportunities report analyses key trends in hotel performance within India, with a special emphasis on 13 major markets, in addition to existing and future opportunities of specific interest to investors, developers and hotel operators.
Hotel Bulletin: Q2 2014 for the UK market
Posted on: 18 September 2014
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The latest digest of hotel performance and transactions across the UK, prepared by HVS London in conjunction with Zolfo Cooper and AM:PM, reports that hotels in Aberdeen, Bath, Edinburgh and London are now trading above pre-downturn levels.
Notes from Sejong City
Posted on: 18 September 2014
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The brand new city of Sejong in South Korea has so far received little academic attention internationally. This is surprising, given the scale of the undertaking; when complete, it will accommodate up to half a million residents, with the national government footing the bill. In a new thought piece published on our website, Rob Cowley, one of the doctoral researchers at the University of Westminster, reflects on a recent fieldwork trip to Sejong. He discusses the nature of the lessons that might be learnt from new-build eco-cities of this type, given that their emergence depends on very context-specific favourable conditions, and suggests that it may be unhelpful when plans to build whole new cities are dismissed as problematically utopian.
Silent majority: How the public will support a new wave of social housing
Posted on: 17 September 2014
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The focus of the report is public opposition to new housing as an explanation for why successive governments seem unable to address the growing affordability crisis in UK housing. Lack of public support for new housing, particularly social housing, is often used as a reason for not doing more, for why government shouldn’t be involved and why this is no longer part of what the local state should be focused on. The Fabian report seeks to dispel this myth, suggesting that nearly 60% of people would actually support more social housing and many would be positive about the government playing a key part in provision.
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