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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780215081421

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HC 802 - Defra Performance in 2014-15 by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Pdf

The Department's total expenditure for 2013-14 was £6.252 billion, taking into account both its activities funded directly by Parliament and grants made following the receipt of money from the European Union, predominantly to fund agricultural subsidies and rural development schemes. The Government budget allocated to and spent by Defra is known as the Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) and it is set at Spending Reviews. The Department has underspent its central Government funding allocation each year since the 2010 Spending Review. In 2013-4, Defra spent £2,433 million of its DEL to meet its strategic objectives which resulted in a £61 million (2 per cent) underspend compared to its budget. The Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2013-4 state that the £50 million underspend against resource DEL was due to the following factors: (a) £30 million was not spent as the UK Government challenged EU disallowance penalties on 2010 and 2011 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) scheme expenditure; and; (b) £20 million was intentional underspend following approval from HM Treasury to carry the funding into 2014-15 to spend on flood prevention

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780215088093

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HC 443 - Defra performance in 2014-15 by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Pdf

Defra's budget for day-to-day spending is to be cut by 15% over the next four years. This will be difficult to achieve since total budget reductions of about a quarter during the last Parliament have already identified easily achievable savings and removed the more obvious inefficiencies across the Defra family. Defra is one of the smaller government departments, with Exchequer funding of just over £2 billion, but it performs vital functions. We endorse the Defra Secretary of State's vision for a world-class food and farming sector, a robust rural economy and an enhanced natural environment. Managing environmental and rural economy issues together can help deliver that vision but this, together with meeting the challenges of protecting the UK from natural hazards, requires adequate resources. Protecting the nation against, for example, flood and animal or plant diseases carries multi-million pound costs; the costs to the economy, society and the environment of not doing so may, however, be even greater. The challenges facing Defra are first whether the reduced budget available to it is sufficient for its task, and second how to make the correct policy choices so as to allocate smaller funds effectively.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780215084460

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HC 942 - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Work of the Committee: 2010-15 by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Pdf

Author : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435086589900

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The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by Stationery Office (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Isabelle La Jeunesse,Corinne Larrue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119383543

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Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events by Isabelle La Jeunesse,Corinne Larrue Pdf

Provides an understanding of the relationship between social-ecological systems and multilevel governance so that readers can properly deal with hydrometeorological extreme events and hazards Based on field investigations from EU research projects, this book is the first to devote itself to scientific and policy-related knowledge concerning climate change-induced extreme events. It depicts national and international strategies, as well as tools used to improve multilevel governance for the management of hydrometeorological risks. It also demonstrates how these strategies play out over different scales of the decision-making processes. Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue offers comprehensive coverage of such events as floods, droughts, coastal storms, and wind storms. It showcases real-life success stories of multilevel governance and highlights the individuals involved and the resources mobilized in the decision-making processes. The book starts by presenting a synthesis of hydrometeorological extreme events and their impacts on society. It then demonstrates how societies are organizing themselves to face these extreme events, focusing on the strategies of integration of risk management in governance and public policy. In addition, it includes the results of several EU-funded projects such as CLIMB, STARFLOOD, and INTERREG IVB project DROP. The first book dedicated to hydrometeorological extreme events governance based on field investigations from EU research projects Offers a “multi-hazards” approach—mixing policy, governance, and field investigations’ main outputs Features the results of EU-funded projects addressing hydrometeorological extreme events Part of the Hydrometeorological Extreme Events series Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events is an ideal book for upper-graduate students, postgraduates, researchers, scientists, and policy-makers working in the field.

Author : Johan F.M. Swinnen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783484850

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The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy by Johan F.M. Swinnen Pdf

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world. It was decided to spend more than €400 billion during the rest of the decade on the CAP. The official claims are that the new CAP will take better account of society's expectations and lead to far-reaching changes by making subsidies fairer and ‘greener’ and making the CAP more efficient. It is also asserted that the CAP will play a key part in achieving the overall objective of promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. However, there is significant scepticism about these claims and disappointment with the outcome of the decision-making, the first in which the European Parliament was involved under the co-decision procedure. In contrast to earlier reforms where more substantive changes were made to the CAP, the factors that induced the policy discussions in 2008-13 and those that influenced the decision-making did not reinforce each other. On the contrary, they sometimes counteracted one another, yielding an ‘imperfect storm’ as it were, resulting in more status quo and fewer changes. This book discusses the outcome of the decision-making and the factors that influenced the policy choices and decisions. It brings together contributions from leading academics from various disciplines and policy-makers, and key participants in the process from the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Author : Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080554938

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Waste Management for the Food Industries by Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis Pdf

The continuously increasing human population, has resulted in a huge demand for processed and packaged foods. As a result of this demand, large amounts of water, air, electricity and fuel are consumed on a daily basis for food processing, transportation and preservation purposes. Although not one of the most heavily polluting, the food industry does contribute to the increase in volume of waste produced as well as to the energy expended to do so. For the first time, nine separate food industry categories are thoroughly investigated in Waste Management for the Food Industries in an effort to help combat this already acute problem. The current state of environmental management systems is described, offering comparisons of global legislation rarely found in other resources. An extensive review of commercial equipment, including advantages and disadvantages per employed waste management technique, offers a unique perspective for any academic, student, professional, and/or consultant in the food, agriculture and environmental industries. Thoroughly examines the most prevalent and most polluting industries such as Meat, Fish, Dairy, Olive Oil, Juice and Wine industries Includes synoptical tables [methods employed, physicochemical or microbiological parameters altered after treatment etc] and comparative figures of the effectiveness of various waste management methods Contains nearly 2500 of the most up-to-date references available

Author : Great Britain: Department for Transport
Publisher : Stationery Office
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0101867921

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Action for roads by Great Britain: Department for Transport Pdf

The road network is vital to our nation and a crucial part of the national transport system. The challenge is both to make best use of the network we have, and also to plan ahead to help the economy grow. The Department has just announced the biggest-ever upgrade of our motorways and key A roads. By 2021, spending on road enhancements will have tripled from today's levels, and we will have resurfaced 80% of the network. This white paper presents the next steps as being to: invest in 52 schemes, including 16 new projects; start construction on five major road schemes by April 2014; begin feasibility studies on five problem hotspots on the strategic road network, prioritising solutions; continue with route based strategies for the whole network, to build a next generation of improvements and interventions; consult later this year on turning the Highways Agency into a publicly owned strategic highways company; publish a draft national policy statement for national networks in 2013, with the aim of formally designating the document in 2014; introduce legislation in 2014, providing a stable funding basis for investment and legal powers for the new Highways Agency; and produce the first Road Investment Strategy later this parliament, guaranteeing roads investment to 2021

Author : Khalid Rehman Hakeem,Mohammad Jawaid,Othman Y. Alothman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319138473

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Agricultural Biomass Based Potential Materials by Khalid Rehman Hakeem,Mohammad Jawaid,Othman Y. Alothman Pdf

Agricultural biomass is abundant worldwide and it can be considered as alternative source of renewable and sustainable materials which can be used as potential materials for different applications. Despite this enormous production of agricultural biomass, only a small fraction of the total biomass is utilized for different applications. Industry must be prepared to take advantage of the situation and utilize the available biomass in the best possible manner. Agricultural biomass such as natural fibres has been successfully investigated as a great potential to be used as a renewable and sustainable materials for the production of composite materials. Natural fibres offer excellent specific properties and have potential as outstanding reinforcing fillers in the matrix and can be used as an alternative material for biocomposites, hybrid composites, pulp, and paper industries. Natural fibre based polymer composites made of jute, oil palm, flex, hemp, kenaf have a low market cost, attractive with respect to global sustainability and find increasing commercial use in different applications. Agricultural biomass based composites find applications in a number of fields viz., automotive industry and construction industry. Future research on agricultural biomass-natural fibre based composites should not only be limited to its automotive applications but can be explored for its application in aircraft components, construction industry, rural housing and biomedical applications. In this book we will cover the chemical, physical, thermal, electrical, and biodegradability properties of agricultural biomass based composite materials and its different potential applications. The main goal of this volume is to familiarize researchers, scientists and engineers with the unique research opportunities and potentials of agricultural biomass based materials. Up-to-date information on alternative biomass utilization Academic and industry leaders discuss unique properties of biomass based composite materials Direct application of agricultural biomass materials as sustainable and renewable alternatives

Author : M. Association
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137392121

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Management Control and Uncertainty by M. Association Pdf

Management Control and Uncertainty recognizes that all control takes place under conditions of uncertainty: it does now, and it always has done. In this edited collection, the contributing authors examine different aspects of management control systems in the modern world whilst paying more explicit attention to the ubiquitous nature of uncertainty

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264257689

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Financial Management of Flood Risk by OECD Pdf

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting effects. This report applies the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and its risk guidance to the specific case of floods.

Author : Jan L.M. Hensen,Roberto Lamberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429688539

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Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation by Jan L.M. Hensen,Roberto Lamberts Pdf

When used appropriately, building performance simulation has the potential to reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, to improve indoor quality and productivity, as well as to facilitate future innovation and technological progress in construction. Since publication of the first edition of Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation, the discussion has shifted from a focus on software features to a new agenda, which centres on the effectiveness of building performance simulation in building life cycle processes. This new edition provides a unique and comprehensive overview of building performance simulation for the complete building life cycle from conception to demolition, and from a single building to district level. It contains new chapters on building information modelling, occupant behaviour modelling, urban physics modelling, urban building energy modelling and renewable energy systems modelling. This new edition keeps the same chapter structure throughout including learning objectives, chapter summaries and assignments. Moreover, the book: • Provides unique insights into the techniques of building performance modelling and simulation and their application to performance-based design and operation of buildings and the systems which service them. • Provides readers with the essential concepts of computational support of performance-based design and operation. • Provides examples of how to use building simulation techniques for practical design, management and operation, their limitations and future direction. It is primarily intended for building and systems designers and operators, and postgraduate architectural, environmental or mechanical engineering students.

Author : Nevil W. Quinn
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789061420

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Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice by Nevil W. Quinn Pdf

Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice, brings together contributions to both the theory and practice of hydrology, including chapters on (amongst other topics) flood estimation methods and hydrological modelling. The book also looks forward with a global hydrology research agenda fit for the 2030s, and explores how to make advances in hydrological modelling – based on almost 50 years of modelling experience. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.

Author : Simon Judd
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080465102

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The MBR Book by Simon Judd Pdf

The use of membranes is increasing throughout industry, and particularly the water industry.The municipal water industry, which is concerned with the provision of clean drinking water to the population, is a big user and developer of membrane technology which helps it to provide water free of pathogens, chemicals, odours and unwanted tastes. Municipal authorities also have to process sewage and waste water, and membranes are used extensively in these processes. The MBR Book covers all important aspects of Membrane BioReactors in water and waste water treatment, from the fundamentals of the processes via design principles to MBR technologies. Industrial case studies help interpret actual results and give pointers for best practice. Useful appendices provide data on commercial membranes and international membrane organisations. * Major growth area in the water industries * Internationally-known author * Principles and practice, backed by case studies

Author : Great Britain: H.M. Treasury
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : 0115601414

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Government financial reporting manual 2010-11 by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury Pdf

Known as FReM. Ring binder available separately (ISBN 9780115601422). Also available with binder (ISBN 9780115601439)