Outputs (25)

Viewpoint on transparency in real estate markets (2024)
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This paper represents the preliminary position of FIG Commission 9, as part of a project entitled ‘Increasing Transparency in Real Estate Markets’. This position paper is intended to stimulate debate and discussion at an international level.
The ca... Read More about Viewpoint on transparency in real estate markets.

A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE (2024)
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This short comparative review of two construction material databases explains their potential use for assessing embodied carbon to designers and practitioners not yet expert in the field. It introduces and examines the Australian Environmental Perfor... Read More about A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE.

RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: Mitigating carbon emissions- global challenge and regional priorities (2024)
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Now more than ever, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Sixth Assessment Report clarifies the urgency of mitigating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to reduce our impact on the global climate and avoid the worst predictions.... Read More about RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: Mitigating carbon emissions- global challenge and regional priorities.

RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: An Introduction (2024)
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The environmental challenge facing us is both vast and urgent.

Use of energy and materials is increasing globally, greenhouse gas emissions are going up rather than down, the devastating impacts of climate change are already being suffered from su... Read More about RIBA Horizons 2034 The Environmental Challenge: An Introduction.

Rivermaids (2024)
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This play - a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, has been co-created with community members of Tewkesbury and in partnership with The Roses Theatre. It is a response to a research call encouraging new collaboration between D... Read More about Rivermaids.

Ecocide: A 21st century international crime in the making (2023)
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Why we must reverse forty years of super-centralisation (2023)
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Strengthening the power of place in modern societies is essential if we want to co-create fair and sustainable ways of living. In the UK context this means giving a really significant boost to the tax raising powers of elected local governments. Th... Read More about Why we must reverse forty years of super-centralisation.

Will the Kakhovka Dam destruction make ecocide an international crime? (2023)
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Clean water for all (2022)
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that, as of 2020, 2 billion people across the globe did not have access to safely managed drinking water.

Ideally, safely managed drinking water should b... Read More about Clean water for all.

Review of year three of the climate emergency action plan. Report for South Gloucestershire Council (2022)
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The University of the West of England supports South Gloucestershire Council in their Climate Emergency work through a University Advisory Group. This group meets monthly with representatives of South Gloucestershire Council’s Climate Emergency Team... Read More about Review of year three of the climate emergency action plan. Report for South Gloucestershire Council.

The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction (2022)
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Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, a curious news story was circulated. This story reported that, following the Queen’s death, the royal beekeeper had paid an official visit to the hives at Buckingham Palace to inform the ho... Read More about The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction.

Economic growth Swedish style (2022)
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This article suggests that, if the UK central government wants to bring about strong economic growth, whilst also levelling up the country, it should draw lessons from countries that have already done this. The example set out is Sweden. This count... Read More about Economic growth Swedish style.

'Aquify' in reimagining museums for climate action (2021)
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Business schools in emerging markets: Why do they matter? (2021)
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Going off-grid – The decentralised production of point-of-use drinking water (2021)
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Alternative national accounting: From monetary to social cost accounting (2021)
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Planet Pod: Whose-fish-are-they-anyway? (2021)
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Now the dust has settled, what does Brexit mean for local fishermen, for the fish catches and for precious marine habitats like Doggerbank?

Join our guests Dr Tom Appleby and John Condon for a thorough update on just what the Brexit deal does and... Read More about Planet Pod: Whose-fish-are-they-anyway?.

Don't forget walking: Taking steps out of the pandemic (2020)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC, examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #5 on 17 September 2020 was titled "And don't forget walki... Read More about Don't forget walking: Taking steps out of the pandemic.

Public transport: Social distancing without socially excluding (2020)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn Lyons has jointly organised and has chaired a Fireside Chat series of events with PTRC examining the transport implications of the pandemic. Fireside Chat #2 on 18 June 2020 was titled "Social distancing – the deat... Read More about Public transport: Social distancing without socially excluding.

An unusual bee hotel: Cultivating care in a time of ecological loss (2020)
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