Hc 215 An Environmental Scorecard

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780215078124

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HC 215 - An Environmental Scorecard by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

Emissions of a number of airborne pollutants increased in 2013, after being steady between 2010 and 2012 and in a longer term decline before that. The UK failed to meet targets for nitrogen dioxide pollution in 34 of the 43 zones specified in the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive in 2012, resulting in the European Commission launching infraction proceedings against the UK in February 2014 in regard to 16 zones that would not be compliant by 2015. The Committee's report recommends an overarching Environmental Strategy be implemented, to set out strategic principles and good practices; facilitate discussion between central and local government and identify how they can work together and with the wider community; encompass clear environmental assessments; identify work required to fill data gaps in assessments; map appropriate policy levers to environmental areas; and set out how environmental and equality considerations will be addressed in policy areas across Government. The report concludes that the Government should set up an independent body-an 'Office for Environmental Responsibility'-to (i) review the Environment Strategy we advocate; (ii) advise Government on appropriate targets; (iii) advise Government on policies, both those in Government programmes and new ones that could be brought forward to support the environment; (iv) advise Government about the adequacy of the resources (in both central and local government) made available for delivering the Strategy; and (v) monitor and publish performance against the Strategy and its targets.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9780215084163

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HC 885 - A 2010-15 Progress Report by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee,Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215078853

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An Environmental Scorecard by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee,Stationery Office (Great Britain) Pdf

Government response to HC 215, session 20-14-15 (ISBN 9780215078124)

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 9780215084309

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HC 858 - Local Nature Partnerships by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

Where LNPs have been successful, they have demonstrated the benefits of local engagement, harnessing enthusiasm in finding solutions to local priorities. Where they have not been successful, the solution is not to impose additional tasks but to re-energise the unfocussed local commitment. Many LNPs are starved of funding and resources, meaning much of the good work in getting them up and running, is being undone. The whole country-urban as well as rural-need the natural environment protections that LNPs can provide. Rather than leave under-performing LNPs to wither away, the next Government should urgently review LNPs and their funding, and re-energise the initiative.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Hydraulic fracturing
ISBN : 9780215081179

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HC 856 - Environmental Risks of Fracking by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

Exploratory drilling for shale gas has begun in the UK and the Government is encouraging fracking. It has introduced tax concessions and is seeking through its Infrastructure Bill to ease the process for fracking operations, including through proposals for an automatic right of access to "deep-level land" for exploratory drilling and extraction. Extensive production of unconventional gas through fracking is inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the Climate Change Act and its carbon budgets regime, which encompasses our contribution to efforts to keep global temperature rise below two degrees. Shale gas, like 'conventional gas', is not low carbon, and the objective of government policy should be to reduce the carbon intensity of energy whatever its source. Shale gas cannot be regarded as a 'transitional' or 'bridging' fuel. Any large scale extraction of shale gas in the UK is likely to be at least 10-15 years away, and therefore cannot drive dirtier coal from the energy system because by that time it is likely that unabated coal-fired power generation will have been phased out to meet EU emissions directives. It is also unlikely to be commercially viable unless developed at a significant scale, to be able to compete against a growing renewable energy sector, but large-scale fracking will not be able to be accommodated within still tightening carbon budgets. There is in any case little evidence to suggest that fracking could be undertaken at the scale needed to be commercially viable in the UK or that it will bring gas prices down significantly.

Author : M. Beech,S. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137461377

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The Conservative-Liberal Coalition by M. Beech,S. Lee Pdf

This book offers a unique full term analysis of the Cameron-Clegg Government. From austerity to gay marriage, the Scottish referendum to combating IS, it brings together expert academic voices to provide rigorous yet readable insights on the key areas of government politics and the debates which will shape the 2015 general election.

Author : Stuart Bell,Donald McGillivray,Ole Pedersen,Emma Lees,Elen Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780198748328

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Environmental Law by Stuart Bell,Donald McGillivray,Ole Pedersen,Emma Lees,Elen Stokes Pdf

This edition of 'Environmental Law' includes material on environmentalism and the law, international environmental law, access to environmental justice, noise pollution and new legislation on pollution prevention and new case law.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Liaison Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Legislative bodies
ISBN : 9780215087980

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HC 470 - Building public engagement: Options for developing select committee outreach by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Liaison Committee Pdf

In 2012 the House of Commons introduced a new 'core task' for all select committees that focused on public engagement as a distinctive and explicit factor of their work. This report focuses on how the select committees have responded to the new core task. Three core conclusions emerged: a) there has been a significant shift within the select committee system to taking public engagement seriously and this is reflected in many examples of innovation; b) this shift, however, has not been systematic and levels of public engagement vary significantly from committee to committee; and c) a more vibrant and systematic approach to public engagement is urgently needed but this will require increased resources, a deeper appreciation of the distinctive contribution that select committees can make and a deeper cultural change at Westminster. This report therefore details innovations in relation to the use of social media, the structure of inquiries and innovative outreach. Public engagement has not yet been fully embedded into the culture of parliament but there is evidence of significant 'cracks and wedges' that can now be built-upon and extended during the 2015-20 Parliament. Clearly the focus of the committee and the topic of the inquiry will have some bearing on the approach to engagement adopted but a more expansive and ambitious approach across the board is to be encouraged. This report leads to a ten-point set of inter-related recommendations but they can all be connected in the sense that the existing social research demonstrates a clear desire on the part of the public to 'do politics differently'.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Amanda Lange Salvia,Luciana Brandli,Ulisses M. Azeiteiro,Rudi Pretorius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030633998

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Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals by Walter Leal Filho,Amanda Lange Salvia,Luciana Brandli,Ulisses M. Azeiteiro,Rudi Pretorius Pdf

In order to yield the expected benefits, sustainability initiatives need to be undertaken by means of a close cooperation between universities on the one hand, and societal partners on the others. The principle of co-creation and co-execution of sustainability initiatives increases the value for all by mutual learning, and the sharing of expertise and resources. But pursuing sustainability initiatives with a community and societal involvement is not simple. There is a perceived need for a better understanding of how universities can interact with society, in order to support the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book is an attempt to address this need, by a novel approach which focuses on current potentials and challenges, across a wide range of fields and expertise. The book focuses on how the theory and practice of sustainable development interact and shows the need for a continuation of the dialogue among sustainability academics and practitioners, so as to address the issues, matters and problems at hand. The spectrum of themes addressed on this book also entails how environmental values and ethics are applied and the relationship between social, biological and cultural diversity. It also includes a broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including education, research and case studies, and the links with human–environment relations in a sustainable development context.

Author : Ki-Hoon Lee,Stefan Schaltegger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319708997

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Accounting for Sustainability: Asia Pacific Perspectives by Ki-Hoon Lee,Stefan Schaltegger Pdf

This book advances the understanding of corporate sustainability and challenges and roles of sustainability accounting in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific region has shown fast economic growth for several decades which is expected to continue. In this context, Asia has become the “production engine” of the global economy. At the same time scientific reports reveal that some planetary boundaries are crossed, for example relating to biodiversity and climate change. Companies in the Asia-Pacific region are therefore increasingly challenged to reduce their environmental impacts, to document their social contribution and to contribute to sustainable development. Key approaches to identify sustainability problems and challenges, to support improvement processes and to back up sustainability contributions include accounting and reporting. In contrast to the high relevance of accounting and reporting for corporate sustainability for the Asia-Pacific region, academic research has so far been dominated by Western researchers and pre-dominantly dealt with Western and Japanese cases and approaches. It is thus time to take account of Asian perspectives on accounting and reporting for sustainability in the Asia-Pacific region.

Author : Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli,Mara Del Baldo,Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319509181

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Environmental Accounting and Reporting by Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli,Mara Del Baldo,Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva Pdf

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, which affects the development and application of environmental accounting and reporting, as a basis for evaluating current achievements and the future steps that need to be taken to develop and spread environmental accounting. The book is unique in presenting exemplary cases from different emerging and developed countries. It is a valuable resource for theorists in the field, practitioners in companies, as well as investors and other stakeholders. Moreover, it provides students with the necessary theoretical constructs, empirical studies as well as practical and managerial tools to allow for a quick orientation in the methodology, techniques and selected practices used in environmental accounting and reporting.

Author : F. Bolger,G. Wright
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780585342900

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Expertise and Decision Support by F. Bolger,G. Wright Pdf

This volume brings together a range of contributors from Europe and North America. All contributions were especially commissioned with a view to e- cidating a major multidisciplinary topic that is of concern to both academics and practitioners. The focus of the book is on expert judgment and its interaction with decision support systems. In the first part, the nature of expertise is discussed and characteristics of expert judges are described. Issues concemed with the eval- tion of judgment in the psychological laboratory are assessed and contrasted with studies of expert judgment in ecologically valid contexts. In addition, issues concerned with eliciting and validating expert knowledge are discussed. Dem- strations of good judgmental performance are linked to situational factors such as feedback cycles, and measurement of coherence and reliability in expert ju- ment is introduced as a baseline determinant of good judgmental performance. Issues concerned with the representation of elicited expert knowledge in kno- edge-based systems are evaluated and methods are described that have been shown to produce improvements in judgmental performance. Behavioral and mathematical ways of combining judgments from multiple experts are compared and contrasted. Finally, the issues developed in the preceding contributions are focused on current controversies in decision support. Expert judgment is utilized as a major input into decision analysis, forecasting with statistical models, and expert s- tems.

Author : Vicky Katsoni,Marival Segarra-Oña
Publisher : Springer
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030039103

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Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability by Vicky Katsoni,Marival Segarra-Oña Pdf

This book explores the latest developments in the field of smart tourism, focusing in particular on the important cultural and sustainability synergies that have emerged during the digital era. The aim is to elucidate how ICTs can promote innovation and creativity in the tourism and leisure sector in ways that take into account cultural and social responsibilities, foster sustainable tourism management, and enhance cultural tourism, cultural heritage, and sustainable development. The book is based on the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), attended by academics and industry practitioners from cultural, heritage, communication, and innovational tourism backgrounds, and is edited in collaboration with IACuDiT. It will have broad appeal to professionals from academia, industry, government, and other organizations who wish to learn about novel perspectives in the fields of tourism, travel, hospitality, culture and heritage, leisure, and sports within the context of a knowledge society and smart economy in which sustainability is becoming ever more important.

Author : Christian N. Madu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814354820

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Handbook of Sustainability Management by Christian N. Madu Pdf

Handbook of Sustainability Management.

Author : US Green Building Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932444629

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LEED Reference Guide for Building Design and Construction by US Green Building Council Pdf