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European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities: Strategic Implementation Plan
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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The High Level Group of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities presents its Strategic Implementation Plan for speeding up the transformation of European Cities into “Smart cities”. The plan outlines ideas on how to best harness innovative technologies, innovative funding mechanisms and innovative public private partnerships. It highlights actions needed to create the right framework conditions to make our cities better places to live and to do business in, to reduce energy use, carbon emissions and congestion.
Balancing the future of Europe’s coasts: knowledge base for integrated management
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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This new report from the European Environment Agency calls for better information, planning and management decisions to balance multiple demands on the coastal environment.
Developing place-based policy
Posted on: 27 November 2013
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Since 2008, a significant part of the RTPI’s research work has been focused on encouraging academics’ involvement in a European research programme called ESPON. The programme, which covers the EU27 plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, aims to add to the bank of spatial evidence available to those developing place-based policy. Further information on this work is available online.
Tourism: A force for economic growth, social change and welfare. Vilnius, 17-18 October 2013
Posted on: 27 November 2013
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The 12th European Tourism Forum met to discuss the benefits of tourism for the EU economy and competitiveness, the diversity of tourism products, closer cooperation, the future of tourism and tax issues in the tourism business. Presentations are available online.
LIFE projects
Posted on: 25 November 2013
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LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU. The first part of the 16-page publication concerns LIFE Environment projects, focusing on water resource management, wastewater treatment, and the recycling and reuse of industrial waste materials. The second part of the Thematic Issue looks at LIFE Nature projects that have benefitted species and habitats within the EU Natura 2000 network of nature reserves. Peer-reviewed research publications arising from 10 LIFE co-funded projects are used to illustrate the range of contributions LIFE projects make to environmental policy.
Science for Environment Policy
Posted on: 25 November 2013
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Science for Environmental Policy (SfEP) provides an information service on the latest policy-relevant environmental findings in Europe. SfEP is a news and information service published by the European Commission’s DG Environment. Its aim is to help the policy-maker keep up-to-date with the latest environmental research findings needed to design, implement and regulate effective policies. SfEP publishes both weekly News Alerts and monthly Thematic Issue.
Towards a European model of a sustainable city. Brussels, 9 October 2013
Posted on: 22 November 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. The event presented the free toolkit which helps cities on their way towards integrated and sustainable urban development. Almost 200 delegates representing more than 20 European countries attended the event, contributing to the discussions on the future of the RFSC community and the role of cities in reaching the EU2020 goals. Presentations are available online together with more information on the toolkit.
Living well within the limits of our planet: Proposal for a general Union Environment Action Programme
Posted on: 21 November 2013
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EU ministers and MEPs have signed into law the seventh environment action programme, setting out the bloc’s long-term policy direction for the environment and climate. The programme aims to push the EU in the direction of so-called ‘green growth’, economic development that places as little burden on the environment as possible. It sets out nine policy objectives for 2020, including protecting nature and strengthening ecological resilience, boosting resource-efficient, low-carbon economic growth and addressing environment-related threats to health.
DTZ Research Institute 2013: Presentations
Posted on: 21 November 2013
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These presentations were made at the inaugural seminar of the newly formed DTZ Research Institute on 6 November 2013. The Institute aims to promote innovation in commercial real estate market research by making DTZ Research data available to leading academic researchers. Three presentations cover: Cross border capital flows in real estate; Real estate holding periods across Europe; Panel modelling of European office market rent dynamics and asymmetries.
European seaports: The growing logistics opportunity
Posted on: 21 November 2013
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Renewed growth of world trade is increasing the need for container ports to handle higher volumes of cargo. In Europe, ports are competing fiercely to attract business and an increasingly critical source of competitive differentiation is port-centric logistics that can drive supply chain performance improvements by locating warehousing and cargo handling at or close to the port. A new report from Jones Lang Lasalle looks at the potential for growth offered by port-centric logistics and the associated opportunities for developers and investors.
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