The document summarizes a meeting about developing Birmingham as a Natural Capital City. It discusses:
1) Presentations from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Birmingham City Council on assessing the value of natural capital to business and promoting sustainable, integrated infrastructure.
2) Birmingham's model for becoming a Natural Capital City, which includes developing an adapted city plan, enhancing its blue network, creating healthy neighborhoods, productive landscapes, and greenways.
3) The role of business in helping cities become more sustainable and the economic opportunities of green business and natural capital projects.
This document is an introduction to an edited book on green cities published by the Asian Development Bank in 2012. It discusses the challenges of rapid urbanization in Asia and its environmental consequences. It emphasizes the need for green infrastructure investment in Asian cities and for enabling private sector participation. The book aims to provide examples of how cities can meet the challenge of sustainable development through integrated planning, financing, and partnerships across sectors.
CitySpeak X: Green City. Cool City: Evans Lu - A vision, a policy and a plan ...DesigningHongKong
City Speak X: A Green City, A Cool City
Speaker: Evans P L Iu
A vision, a policy and a plan for landscaping the City
Hong Kong is surrounded by so much water and has so many green mountains, so does it really need more urban open space? How do we respond to the threats of global warming and air pollution? What is the meaning of “the urban heat island effect”? What is an “air ventilation assessment”? What value doesthe community place on open space? Is the demand for recreation and sport changing? Do we need a landscape vision and master plan? Is “green infrastructure” becoming more important than roads and railway lines in securing a sustainable built environment in Hong Kong?
Join experts, academics, planners, government officials and landscape architects in a discussion about how to stay cool in our city.
Designing Hong Kong is a not-for-profit organisation focused on sustainable urban planning. See: www.designinghongkong.com
This document outlines Boston's civic design and technology strategy called "New Urban Mechanics". The strategy focuses on identifying ideas from both inside and outside of government to improve city services, piloting high-potential ideas with public impact but minimal cost, and scaling the most effective pilots to share with other cities. Some examples of projects include the 21st Century Learner program, the Street Bump app, and Citizens Connect, which has 20% of service requests come through the app. The goal is to engage partners, pilot ideas quickly, and manage projects like products to improve city services using civic technology.
This document discusses urban regeneration and social innovation in the city of Sestao, Spain. It describes Sestao Berri, a public organization created to promote socio-urban regeneration and community development. Sestao Berri uses social intervention models and community action projects to address social issues during the urban regeneration process. Examples of projects discussed include rehousing management, community workshops, and the TRIME energy saving initiative. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of social intervention planning, community action, and the role of local intermediaries in scaling up urban social innovation.
The document outlines a six-step process for creating a shared vision to make a city healthy and active over the next 20 years. The steps include: learning about existing problems, raising awareness of health issues, establishing a joint vision, developing a strategy, taking action, and evaluating progress. The vision is of a city with mixed land use, active transportation, green spaces, access to healthcare and jobs, social cohesion, and engaged leadership to monitor goals.
Section 37 Update: What the Cases Say and What the Practice IsNow Dentons
The document summarizes a presentation on Section 37 of the Planning Act, which allows municipalities to authorize increases in height and density in exchange for community benefits. Recent cases have established that requested benefits must be connected to the development. However, the presenter notes some municipalities treat Section 37 more as a revenue tool, basing contributions on estimated property value increases rather than development impacts. The presentation provides examples of municipalities requesting contributions that appear unrelated to planning issues, and argues for clarification from the OMB on the proper use of Section 37.
Tactical urbanism describes grassroots activities in urban settings that are short-term, low-cost, and iterative interventions intended to improve neighborhoods. While originally developed in high-income countries as activist projects initiated by citizens in response to lack of government action, examples in low- and middle-income countries described as tactical urbanism tend to involve local governments or NGOs and less of an activism element. Case studies identified include initiatives related to road safety in Brazil, India, Tanzania and Chile, as well as repurposing space to improve retail in Egypt and China. There was little evidence found of tactical urbanism being used in the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries.
Michael Kuhndt at Sharing Economy Conference 2013 (english)isabellullrich
This document discusses collaborative consumption and its potential to enable more sustainable lifestyles. It uses the example of Bernd, a German man with a family who consumes at the level of 3 planets. Collaborative consumption models like car sharing could help Bernd reduce his environmental impact. For these models to maximize sustainability, their impacts must be strengthened and measured. Large companies can help mainstream collaborative consumption by partnering with sharing economy startups. For collaborative consumption to spread through all levels of society, frameworks are needed to adapt laws and regulations, taxes, infrastructure, and more to 21st century sharing models.
This document is an introduction to an edited book on green cities published by the Asian Development Bank in 2012. It discusses the challenges of rapid urbanization in Asia and its environmental consequences. It emphasizes the need for green infrastructure investment in Asian cities and for enabling private sector participation. The book aims to provide examples of how cities can meet the challenge of sustainable development through integrated planning, financing, and partnerships across sectors.
CitySpeak X: Green City. Cool City: Evans Lu - A vision, a policy and a plan ...DesigningHongKong
City Speak X: A Green City, A Cool City
Speaker: Evans P L Iu
A vision, a policy and a plan for landscaping the City
Hong Kong is surrounded by so much water and has so many green mountains, so does it really need more urban open space? How do we respond to the threats of global warming and air pollution? What is the meaning of “the urban heat island effect”? What is an “air ventilation assessment”? What value doesthe community place on open space? Is the demand for recreation and sport changing? Do we need a landscape vision and master plan? Is “green infrastructure” becoming more important than roads and railway lines in securing a sustainable built environment in Hong Kong?
Join experts, academics, planners, government officials and landscape architects in a discussion about how to stay cool in our city.
Designing Hong Kong is a not-for-profit organisation focused on sustainable urban planning. See: www.designinghongkong.com
This document outlines Boston's civic design and technology strategy called "New Urban Mechanics". The strategy focuses on identifying ideas from both inside and outside of government to improve city services, piloting high-potential ideas with public impact but minimal cost, and scaling the most effective pilots to share with other cities. Some examples of projects include the 21st Century Learner program, the Street Bump app, and Citizens Connect, which has 20% of service requests come through the app. The goal is to engage partners, pilot ideas quickly, and manage projects like products to improve city services using civic technology.
This document discusses urban regeneration and social innovation in the city of Sestao, Spain. It describes Sestao Berri, a public organization created to promote socio-urban regeneration and community development. Sestao Berri uses social intervention models and community action projects to address social issues during the urban regeneration process. Examples of projects discussed include rehousing management, community workshops, and the TRIME energy saving initiative. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of social intervention planning, community action, and the role of local intermediaries in scaling up urban social innovation.
The document outlines a six-step process for creating a shared vision to make a city healthy and active over the next 20 years. The steps include: learning about existing problems, raising awareness of health issues, establishing a joint vision, developing a strategy, taking action, and evaluating progress. The vision is of a city with mixed land use, active transportation, green spaces, access to healthcare and jobs, social cohesion, and engaged leadership to monitor goals.
Section 37 Update: What the Cases Say and What the Practice IsNow Dentons
The document summarizes a presentation on Section 37 of the Planning Act, which allows municipalities to authorize increases in height and density in exchange for community benefits. Recent cases have established that requested benefits must be connected to the development. However, the presenter notes some municipalities treat Section 37 more as a revenue tool, basing contributions on estimated property value increases rather than development impacts. The presentation provides examples of municipalities requesting contributions that appear unrelated to planning issues, and argues for clarification from the OMB on the proper use of Section 37.
Tactical urbanism describes grassroots activities in urban settings that are short-term, low-cost, and iterative interventions intended to improve neighborhoods. While originally developed in high-income countries as activist projects initiated by citizens in response to lack of government action, examples in low- and middle-income countries described as tactical urbanism tend to involve local governments or NGOs and less of an activism element. Case studies identified include initiatives related to road safety in Brazil, India, Tanzania and Chile, as well as repurposing space to improve retail in Egypt and China. There was little evidence found of tactical urbanism being used in the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries.
Michael Kuhndt at Sharing Economy Conference 2013 (english)isabellullrich
This document discusses collaborative consumption and its potential to enable more sustainable lifestyles. It uses the example of Bernd, a German man with a family who consumes at the level of 3 planets. Collaborative consumption models like car sharing could help Bernd reduce his environmental impact. For these models to maximize sustainability, their impacts must be strengthened and measured. Large companies can help mainstream collaborative consumption by partnering with sharing economy startups. For collaborative consumption to spread through all levels of society, frameworks are needed to adapt laws and regulations, taxes, infrastructure, and more to 21st century sharing models.
This series of presentations were presented at the FMC Fall Real Estate Seminar held on September 27, 2012, presenters include – Patrick Devine, Mark Piel, Julie Robbins, Sheldon Disenhouse, Karen Groulx, Andrew Salem, Allyson Roy, Jules Mikelberg and Michael Toshakovski. Presentation topics include:
Section 37 Update: What the Cases Say and What the Practice Is;
How Reasonable is Reasonable: Negotiating Effort Standards in Commercial Leases;
Relocation Rights in Leases – Planning for the Future;
Legal Fallout from Falling Glass;
Small Changes, Big Impacts and
Greater Toronto Area Condominium Update
Tactical Urbanism, Lecture by Arvind Ramachandran, 7 July 2013Sochi - peshkom
Arvind Ramachandran introduces the concept of "Everyday Urbanism" which encourages building cities incrementally through small-scale citizen-driven projects rather than large master plans. Everyday Urbanism recognizes cities as complex entities shaped by many forces and argues a bottom-up approach improves city life without massive investment. Examples of Everyday Urbanism projects include parklets in LA, a participatory park in Copenhagen, and public toilets designed with citizen input in Chennai.
This document describes 6 cases of citizen co-management around the world. Case 1 discusses "machizukuri", a community planning technique used in Kobe, Japan post-earthquake that involved communities building public spaces with government funding. Case 2 discusses neighborhood development corporations in The Hague, Netherlands that aligned redevelopment plans with resident welfare associations. Case 3 discusses participatory neighborhood planning in Puducherry, India that empowered stakeholders through community infrastructure improvements.
Current Situation & Development Framework of Sino-Foreign Eco-CitiesSmartEcoCity (SEC)
Due to the challenges of climate change, creating eco-cities has gradually become the paramount goal of global urban construction. As the primary region of urban construction in the world, China has a significant impact on sustainable development: 80% of prefecture-level cities have a minimum of one eco-city being considered for construction. Various versions of the eco-city model are being developed in China, all of which seek to impose change at a rapid pace and on a vast scale. An underlying bilateral partnership framework has led to the success of several Sino-Foreign eco-city projects. According to research, the three key components for developing a successful Sino-Foreign eco-city are: an inclusive political framework, a comprehensive organizational and financial structure and robust technical solutions.
The document describes 6 cases of citizen co-management around the world. Case 1 discusses how the Japanese city of Kobe adopted "machizukuri", allowing communities to build public spaces with government funding post-earthquake. Case 2 shows how neighborhood development corporations in The Hague aligned redevelopment plans with resident welfare associations. Case 3 involves participatory neighborhood planning in Puducherry, India between public bodies and community stakeholders. Case 4 highlights how citizens in Ahmednagar, India helped provide temporary services during lockdown that were later adopted by authorities. Case 5 discusses using design tools to crowdsource urban design opinions from citizens in Zurich. Case 6 examines Pune, India's participatory budgeting process that allocates funds based
The engagement of colleges and universities in their regional economies depends on forging collaborations. The task is tricky, because these collaborations often engage people who have never worked together. These partnerships form in the “civic space” outside the four walls of any one organization. In this civic space, no one can tell anyone else what to do. Strategic Doing presents a new approach to forming sophisticated collaborations quickly, guiding them toward measurable outcomes, and adjusting along the way. A number of universities are now deploying this discipline, as they develop collaborations, workforce innovations, and clusters.
1) Design has traditionally focused on giving form to industrial, consumer, and information economies within a globalized system. However, this has not addressed broader societal and environmental concerns.
2) There is a need for a new vision of beauty that is unusual, intriguing, appeals to curiosity, and serves to heal societal divides, while being adaptable to the future.
3) Design needs to take a more activist role on behalf of societies and the environment, focusing on building social capital and improving well-being rather than just serving economic interests.
Autonomous vehicles will have wide-ranging impacts on transportation and land use. While they provide benefits like increased mobility and safety, they also pose challenges. Discussants broke into groups to discuss benefits and drawbacks of autonomous vehicles related to equity, environment, economy, emergency management, land use, and public health. Each group then reported back to identify both opportunities and challenges associated with planning for an autonomous future.
This document summarizes a potential pay for success program to address childhood asthma through healthy homes interventions in Springfield, MA. It outlines the basic pay for success model and how it could apply to reducing asthma triggers in the home. Unhealthy homes cause 40% of asthma episodes, so addressing root causes through environmental assessments, education, and repairs could significantly improve health outcomes. The evidence shows home-based multi-trigger interventions recommended by the Surgeon General and Task Force can reduce asthma hospitalizations and costs. Measurable savings in healthcare utilization could repay private investors if a targeted number of asthma episodes are averted.
The document summarizes a presentation on the role of cities in creating Australia's future and challenges they face. It discusses two main challenges - environmental issues from climate change and resource constraints, and maintaining population health. Other topics covered include urban renewal as an economic accelerator, megatrends shaping the future, importance of cities to the economy, themes for building resilient cities, and the need for innovative planning approaches to address these issues.
Though 100 smart cities is being talked around many times, common people still doesn't clearly know what exactly the project is. This presentation will help to orient yourselves to the 100 smart cities project. This is in no way the ideas of the author or is influenced by the authors opinions. The presentation is purely based on the vision, mission and strategies of India Govt guidelines.
Bunaken Island | Nov-15 | Key Factors in Island Community Energy for Social C...Smart Villages
By Iskandar Kuntoadji, Tri Mumpuni
Off-grid electrification for development of small islands represents a number of unique challenges under the broad category of rural electrification. Small, off-grid island communities are particularly vulnerable to diesel price fluctuations and natural disasters, and thus, enhancing resilience through more sustainable and cheaper energy technologies should be a key priority. Financing the transition to these technologies – usually photovoltaic, micro-hydro or sometimes wind – is an essential hurdle to overcome. Once electricity systems are in place it is equally important that they are sustained in the longer term with effective arrangements for operation and maintenance, cost recovery etc. Related to this, is the productive use of the energy provided to increase islander incomes.
The workshop on Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia from 3 to 5 November 2015, organised by the Smart Villages Initiative in collaboration with Kopernik, will explore these issues and develop recommendations for policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in energy provision to island communities.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/off-grid-islands-electricity-workshop/
This document discusses infrastructure investments and challenges for creating more sustainable and resilient cities. It mentions $31.5 billion in transportation and energy projects for Oregon and Washington, and calls for public-private partnerships to update city frameworks and standards according to best practices. The rapid changes caused by COVID-19 may require integrating smart city priorities across all areas to create a new normal for community development, work, and mixed-use neighborhoods.
This document summarizes a presentation on regulation in the Mekong region. It discusses how regulation is often focused on documents and specific rules rather than outcomes. Regulation should aim to adequately restrain opportunistic behavior that benefits small groups at the expense of the public. However, defining "the public" is complex as it may refer to the nation, environment, bureaucracy, or local communities. Regulation often fails to serve local community interests. The presentation provides examples of this and discusses how a case with IKEA shows some promising approaches to better regulation but also shortcomings. It concludes that regulation needs to be amended to give smallholder producers a fairer chance.
Presentation for the USGBC North Dakaota Chapter Annual meeting: Green Focus 2013 on local government policy to promote green jobs, green building, and green investment.
This document discusses interclustering networks that can benefit small and medium-sized enterprises in the 21st century. It focuses on projects like Greenov and Ecobuild that create social networks and ecosystems where local businesses can connect globally in real time to find complementarities and achieve a better balance, thereby gaining competitive advantages and opportunities for growth.
This document summarizes governance models for the sharing economy in Seoul and Milan. In Seoul, the government took a top-down approach, establishing divisions and committees to promote sharing and passing laws to support sharing organizations. Milan took a more bottom-up approach, with the government acting as a connector and enabling collaborations. Both cities opened public spaces for sharing projects, supported social innovations, and aimed to improve citizens' lives through more sustainable consumption. While each city has its own customs, both experiment with co-management and collaboration between public institutions and citizens.
13. The housing challenge in sub-Saharan Africa: approaches, challenges and o...ACCUCT
Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to a major housing challenge characterized by sustained poverty and informal housing. Past approaches to addressing the housing challenge included public housing and slum clearance in the 1950s-60s, sites and services projects partnering with local communities in the 1970s-80s, and enabling private sector housing starting in the 1980s. Current differentiated approaches involve both global support policies and local housing supply practices. Opportunities exist in recognizing the value created through housing investments and using land value capture and redistribution instruments to facilitate affordable, formal housing for low-income communities.
This document contains summaries of three Tupperware products:
1) The Tupperware Illusions Blue 2.3L Bowl comes with matching servers and has a glass-like finish. It is perfect for serving various foods and its blue color has two beautiful tones.
2) The Tupperware 2 Litre Slim Line Pitcher fits perfectly in the fridge door without a handle taking up space. It has a compact design for easy handling and pouring.
3) The Tupperware FridgeSmart Container is designed to extend the life of fruits and vegetables using in-built ridges and vent buttons to circulate air. It saves money by preventing food waste.
The volleyball team for boys under 16 is coached by Mr. Noah Ward. Mr. Ward has been coaching volleyball for 10 years and has led previous teams to state championships. This year the team hopes to improve on their regional runner-up finish from last season under Mr. Ward's leadership.
Children often play together and enjoy a variety of sports and activities. Some of their favorite sports include athletics, martial arts, gymnastics, football, basketball, track, volleyball, and swimming. The document discusses playing with balls, kites, scooters, and skipping ropes. It also mentions that while it's fun to win, it's not the end of the world to lose, and that participating is what really matters.
This series of presentations were presented at the FMC Fall Real Estate Seminar held on September 27, 2012, presenters include – Patrick Devine, Mark Piel, Julie Robbins, Sheldon Disenhouse, Karen Groulx, Andrew Salem, Allyson Roy, Jules Mikelberg and Michael Toshakovski. Presentation topics include:
Section 37 Update: What the Cases Say and What the Practice Is;
How Reasonable is Reasonable: Negotiating Effort Standards in Commercial Leases;
Relocation Rights in Leases – Planning for the Future;
Legal Fallout from Falling Glass;
Small Changes, Big Impacts and
Greater Toronto Area Condominium Update
Tactical Urbanism, Lecture by Arvind Ramachandran, 7 July 2013Sochi - peshkom
Arvind Ramachandran introduces the concept of "Everyday Urbanism" which encourages building cities incrementally through small-scale citizen-driven projects rather than large master plans. Everyday Urbanism recognizes cities as complex entities shaped by many forces and argues a bottom-up approach improves city life without massive investment. Examples of Everyday Urbanism projects include parklets in LA, a participatory park in Copenhagen, and public toilets designed with citizen input in Chennai.
This document describes 6 cases of citizen co-management around the world. Case 1 discusses "machizukuri", a community planning technique used in Kobe, Japan post-earthquake that involved communities building public spaces with government funding. Case 2 discusses neighborhood development corporations in The Hague, Netherlands that aligned redevelopment plans with resident welfare associations. Case 3 discusses participatory neighborhood planning in Puducherry, India that empowered stakeholders through community infrastructure improvements.
Current Situation & Development Framework of Sino-Foreign Eco-CitiesSmartEcoCity (SEC)
Due to the challenges of climate change, creating eco-cities has gradually become the paramount goal of global urban construction. As the primary region of urban construction in the world, China has a significant impact on sustainable development: 80% of prefecture-level cities have a minimum of one eco-city being considered for construction. Various versions of the eco-city model are being developed in China, all of which seek to impose change at a rapid pace and on a vast scale. An underlying bilateral partnership framework has led to the success of several Sino-Foreign eco-city projects. According to research, the three key components for developing a successful Sino-Foreign eco-city are: an inclusive political framework, a comprehensive organizational and financial structure and robust technical solutions.
The document describes 6 cases of citizen co-management around the world. Case 1 discusses how the Japanese city of Kobe adopted "machizukuri", allowing communities to build public spaces with government funding post-earthquake. Case 2 shows how neighborhood development corporations in The Hague aligned redevelopment plans with resident welfare associations. Case 3 involves participatory neighborhood planning in Puducherry, India between public bodies and community stakeholders. Case 4 highlights how citizens in Ahmednagar, India helped provide temporary services during lockdown that were later adopted by authorities. Case 5 discusses using design tools to crowdsource urban design opinions from citizens in Zurich. Case 6 examines Pune, India's participatory budgeting process that allocates funds based
The engagement of colleges and universities in their regional economies depends on forging collaborations. The task is tricky, because these collaborations often engage people who have never worked together. These partnerships form in the “civic space” outside the four walls of any one organization. In this civic space, no one can tell anyone else what to do. Strategic Doing presents a new approach to forming sophisticated collaborations quickly, guiding them toward measurable outcomes, and adjusting along the way. A number of universities are now deploying this discipline, as they develop collaborations, workforce innovations, and clusters.
1) Design has traditionally focused on giving form to industrial, consumer, and information economies within a globalized system. However, this has not addressed broader societal and environmental concerns.
2) There is a need for a new vision of beauty that is unusual, intriguing, appeals to curiosity, and serves to heal societal divides, while being adaptable to the future.
3) Design needs to take a more activist role on behalf of societies and the environment, focusing on building social capital and improving well-being rather than just serving economic interests.
Autonomous vehicles will have wide-ranging impacts on transportation and land use. While they provide benefits like increased mobility and safety, they also pose challenges. Discussants broke into groups to discuss benefits and drawbacks of autonomous vehicles related to equity, environment, economy, emergency management, land use, and public health. Each group then reported back to identify both opportunities and challenges associated with planning for an autonomous future.
This document summarizes a potential pay for success program to address childhood asthma through healthy homes interventions in Springfield, MA. It outlines the basic pay for success model and how it could apply to reducing asthma triggers in the home. Unhealthy homes cause 40% of asthma episodes, so addressing root causes through environmental assessments, education, and repairs could significantly improve health outcomes. The evidence shows home-based multi-trigger interventions recommended by the Surgeon General and Task Force can reduce asthma hospitalizations and costs. Measurable savings in healthcare utilization could repay private investors if a targeted number of asthma episodes are averted.
The document summarizes a presentation on the role of cities in creating Australia's future and challenges they face. It discusses two main challenges - environmental issues from climate change and resource constraints, and maintaining population health. Other topics covered include urban renewal as an economic accelerator, megatrends shaping the future, importance of cities to the economy, themes for building resilient cities, and the need for innovative planning approaches to address these issues.
Though 100 smart cities is being talked around many times, common people still doesn't clearly know what exactly the project is. This presentation will help to orient yourselves to the 100 smart cities project. This is in no way the ideas of the author or is influenced by the authors opinions. The presentation is purely based on the vision, mission and strategies of India Govt guidelines.
Bunaken Island | Nov-15 | Key Factors in Island Community Energy for Social C...Smart Villages
By Iskandar Kuntoadji, Tri Mumpuni
Off-grid electrification for development of small islands represents a number of unique challenges under the broad category of rural electrification. Small, off-grid island communities are particularly vulnerable to diesel price fluctuations and natural disasters, and thus, enhancing resilience through more sustainable and cheaper energy technologies should be a key priority. Financing the transition to these technologies – usually photovoltaic, micro-hydro or sometimes wind – is an essential hurdle to overcome. Once electricity systems are in place it is equally important that they are sustained in the longer term with effective arrangements for operation and maintenance, cost recovery etc. Related to this, is the productive use of the energy provided to increase islander incomes.
The workshop on Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia from 3 to 5 November 2015, organised by the Smart Villages Initiative in collaboration with Kopernik, will explore these issues and develop recommendations for policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in energy provision to island communities.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/off-grid-islands-electricity-workshop/
This document discusses infrastructure investments and challenges for creating more sustainable and resilient cities. It mentions $31.5 billion in transportation and energy projects for Oregon and Washington, and calls for public-private partnerships to update city frameworks and standards according to best practices. The rapid changes caused by COVID-19 may require integrating smart city priorities across all areas to create a new normal for community development, work, and mixed-use neighborhoods.
This document summarizes a presentation on regulation in the Mekong region. It discusses how regulation is often focused on documents and specific rules rather than outcomes. Regulation should aim to adequately restrain opportunistic behavior that benefits small groups at the expense of the public. However, defining "the public" is complex as it may refer to the nation, environment, bureaucracy, or local communities. Regulation often fails to serve local community interests. The presentation provides examples of this and discusses how a case with IKEA shows some promising approaches to better regulation but also shortcomings. It concludes that regulation needs to be amended to give smallholder producers a fairer chance.
Presentation for the USGBC North Dakaota Chapter Annual meeting: Green Focus 2013 on local government policy to promote green jobs, green building, and green investment.
This document discusses interclustering networks that can benefit small and medium-sized enterprises in the 21st century. It focuses on projects like Greenov and Ecobuild that create social networks and ecosystems where local businesses can connect globally in real time to find complementarities and achieve a better balance, thereby gaining competitive advantages and opportunities for growth.
This document summarizes governance models for the sharing economy in Seoul and Milan. In Seoul, the government took a top-down approach, establishing divisions and committees to promote sharing and passing laws to support sharing organizations. Milan took a more bottom-up approach, with the government acting as a connector and enabling collaborations. Both cities opened public spaces for sharing projects, supported social innovations, and aimed to improve citizens' lives through more sustainable consumption. While each city has its own customs, both experiment with co-management and collaboration between public institutions and citizens.
13. The housing challenge in sub-Saharan Africa: approaches, challenges and o...ACCUCT
Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to a major housing challenge characterized by sustained poverty and informal housing. Past approaches to addressing the housing challenge included public housing and slum clearance in the 1950s-60s, sites and services projects partnering with local communities in the 1970s-80s, and enabling private sector housing starting in the 1980s. Current differentiated approaches involve both global support policies and local housing supply practices. Opportunities exist in recognizing the value created through housing investments and using land value capture and redistribution instruments to facilitate affordable, formal housing for low-income communities.
This document contains summaries of three Tupperware products:
1) The Tupperware Illusions Blue 2.3L Bowl comes with matching servers and has a glass-like finish. It is perfect for serving various foods and its blue color has two beautiful tones.
2) The Tupperware 2 Litre Slim Line Pitcher fits perfectly in the fridge door without a handle taking up space. It has a compact design for easy handling and pouring.
3) The Tupperware FridgeSmart Container is designed to extend the life of fruits and vegetables using in-built ridges and vent buttons to circulate air. It saves money by preventing food waste.
The volleyball team for boys under 16 is coached by Mr. Noah Ward. Mr. Ward has been coaching volleyball for 10 years and has led previous teams to state championships. This year the team hopes to improve on their regional runner-up finish from last season under Mr. Ward's leadership.
Children often play together and enjoy a variety of sports and activities. Some of their favorite sports include athletics, martial arts, gymnastics, football, basketball, track, volleyball, and swimming. The document discusses playing with balls, kites, scooters, and skipping ropes. It also mentions that while it's fun to win, it's not the end of the world to lose, and that participating is what really matters.
2010 California Advocacy Day - Dave Roberts Slideshimsssocal
The document outlines nine principles put forth by HIMSS in 2010 to guide government initiatives related to health information technology and exchange. The principles address issues such as funding and incentives, healthcare delivery transformation, standards, privacy and security, legal considerations, public-private partnerships, consumer empowerment, population health monitoring, and developing the healthcare IT workforce. The document also provides information on upcoming events during National Health IT Week in June 2010.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing product development. Key roles include the Product Owner, who represents stakeholders and priorities work. The Development Team works in iterations (sprints) to implement user stories, while the Scrum Master helps remove impediments. Ceremonies like planning poker, daily standups, and retrospectives provide transparency and opportunities to inspect and adapt the process sprint-over-sprint. Metrics like velocity and burndown charts are used for planning and monitoring progress. Tools like Jira help automate workflows and provide visibility.
This document summarizes a research paper on using a k-means clustering method to detect brain tumors in MRI images. The paper introduces brain tumors and MRI imaging. It then describes using k-means clustering for tumor segmentation, which groups similar image patterns into clusters to identify the tumor region. The paper presents results of applying k-means to two MRI images, including statistical measures of segmentation accuracy, tumor area comparison, and timing. The k-means method achieved average rand index of 0.8358, low average errors, and tumor areas close to manual segmentation in under 3 seconds, demonstrating potential for accurate and efficient brain tumor detection.
The document discusses the challenges that organizations face in attracting and retaining top talent in a dynamic business environment. It notes that the availability of skilled workers is declining globally while demand is increasing, leaving companies competing intensely for talent. The imperative for organizations is to take a strategic and customized approach to talent management focusing on components like high potential development, leadership, and performance management in order to achieve competitive advantage.
The document discusses the need to defend the gospel. It explains that the gospel's origin is from Christ and scripture, its purpose is to save souls for God's kingdom, and its scope is for all nations. The gospel's facts about Christ's death and resurrection must be believed, its commands obeyed, and promises received. The document encourages the reader to study in order to defend the gospel and instructs how to become saved by hearing, believing, repenting of sins, confessing Jesus, and baptism.
The document discusses strategies for improving diabetes management programs to better serve racially and ethnically diverse patient populations. It emphasizes the importance of cultural competence and addressing health beliefs, alternative treatments, language barriers, and family roles that are specific to different ethnic groups. Effective programs elicit patients' cultural health beliefs, educate practitioners, provide language assistance, and address social factors like racism that can influence health outcomes.
WordPress is an open source content management system that is used to create websites and blogs. It is known for being very user-friendly and customizable through the use of themes and plugins. WordPress is free to use, but if you want to host your own site you will need to purchase web hosting and domain registration. Knowing WordPress is a valuable skill due to the number of sites that use it, and there are jobs available as WordPress designers, developers, and consultants.
This presentation consists of garments Jasmine Rhodes created for her senior year fashion studies. The pieces incorporate special design techniques and are intended to be fashionable, ready-to-wear items that could be produced in different colors and fabrics. Rhodes designed and produced all the pieces herself. The presentation includes trend research, fabric choices, color stories, and a collection inspired by the Turks and Caicos islands featuring flowing silhouettes and trendy designs.
Presentasi membahas pengertian dan contoh sistem operasi open source. Open source adalah perangkat lunak dengan kode program terbuka yang dapat dipelajari, diubah, dan disebarluaskan, berbeda dengan perangkat lunak yang melarang perubahan kode programnya. Sejarah open source bermula dari kultur hacker pada tahun 1960-1970an. Keuntungan open source antara lain banyaknya SDM pengembang dan biaya rendah, sedangkan kekurangannya adalah
This presentation discusses the Chinese sporting goods industry and profiles Adidas and Li Ning. It notes that competition is fierce between international brands like Adidas and Nike and Chinese brands. Adidas earns most of its revenue from footwear while pursuing basketball and other sponsorships in China. Li Ning seeks to expand in basketball, tennis, fitness and other areas while growing its retail presence across China. Both companies aim to capitalize on China's growing sports culture and consumer base.
Este documento explica las líneas trigonométricas de la tangente para ángulos en los cuatro cuadrantes. Describe las propiedades de la tangente para ángulos en el primer, segundo, tercer y cuarto cuadrantes.
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Lars Frederiksen: Ecocit: Research on innovation and sustainability in urban ...STEPS Centre
Prof Lars Fredriksen, Imperial College Business School.
Presentation to the UK-China Innovation Workshop for Sustainable and Equitable Development, Tsinghua University, 19 March 2010, co-organised by China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at Tsinghua University and the STEPS Centre.
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Presentation given to the ARCC assembly on 11th June by Kit England, Nick Grayson and Kate Cochrane, on behalf of Core Cities, Newcastle City Council, Birmingham City Council and Bristol City Council
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CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
2. Agenda
Introduction Pat Laughlin, MEBC
Urban Infrastructure Initiative Matthew Lynch,
World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
Natural Capital City Nick Grayson, Birmingham
City Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities
Project, U of Birmingham
Discussion Panel Skanska, Fira
Session Conclusions
3. • Partner in the Natural Capital City Project
• Focus on:
– Assessing the value of natural capital to business
– Promoting the role of business in planning urban
regeneration and growth
– Developing sustainable, integrated infrastructure
– Improving economic and social wellbeing
About us
9. 14 global companies: 2.1m people* and US$ 900bn turnover
Operating in most countries
* Aggregated key figures (2009)
Co-Chairs
Core Group
members
The Urban Infrastructure
Initiative member companies
10. CITY
SUSTAINABILITY
VISION
ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
UII
TRANSFORMATION
DIALOGUE
usual company area of actionUII area of interest
Vision: “A world where cities provide a sustainable environment
for people to live, work and play”
•Objective: Helping transform a city’s vision into an effective action plan
using UII companies’ multi-disciplinary expertise and global experience.
•Cost effective, integrated solutions to complex urban challenges
Private sector
A new approach for working
with cities
13. Relevant partners help identify potential cities and facilitate dialogue
Europe
Latin America
USA
East AsiaIndia
China
China BCSD
Africa
Japan
UII Cities: Selection Process
14. Nicholas You (Kenya) - Chairman of the UII Assurance group - Former
Senior Advisor of UN-Habitat, Nairobi
Ms Cheong Koon Hean (Singapore) - CEO of the Housing and
Development Board
Kees Christiaanse (Switzerland) - Professor of Architecture and Urban
Design, ETH Zürich
Mario Gandelsonas (USA) - Director, Center for Architecture, Urbanism
and Infrastructure at Princeton University
Jaime Lerner (Brazil) - Architect and urban planner, former Mayor of
Curitiba
Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan) - Professor of Architecture, Waseda University,
Tokyo
Assurance group members
17. • Publication of remaining city solution landscape
reports:
Kobe
Philadelphia
Yixing
African Cities
• Synthesis of key lessons
• Scoping of a follow up WBCSD program on
cities.
UII – Next Steps
19. Nick Grayson, Climate Change and
Sustainability Manager. Birmingham City
Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities Project. University
of Birmingham
•How can Birmingham’s work on natural capital and
liveable city concept – get us closer to a global green
city?
•What role is there for business?
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
21. Sustainability Forum – June 11th 2012
"We the mayors and governors of
the world's leading cities. ask you
to recognise that the future of our
globe will be won or lost in the
cities of the world."
Copenhagen Climate Change
communiqué, December 2009
•BRE Guide
•Masdar
•Biomimicry 3.8
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
23. July 2012 – Physical Activity
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
24. Key Partners
Climate Risk
Water
Green Infrastructure
Health & Well Being
Biodiversity
The LEP & Business
Community + Resilience
Planning
Transport & Infrastructure
The 9 piece jigsaw
POLICY
EVIDENCE
DELIVERY
Green
Infrastructure &
Adaptation
Delivery Group
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
25. Principle Output & Policy
An Adapted City
Plan for effects of the Urban Heat Island
Green roofs & walls
Street Canyons Research
Trees for cooling & thermal insulation
The City’s Blue
Network
Develop a Blue Corridor &’Green Streets’ Policy
Enhance and the wider Blue network.
SuDS & flood & water management
Enhance water quality & riparian habitat
A Healthy City
Adopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)
Introduce sustainable land management principles.
„Be Active‟ neighbourhoods
Childhood development
The City’s
Productive
Landscapes
Endorse the Birmingham Forest & Tree Bond
Promote allotments
Facilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands
Embed biomass production
The City’s
Greenways
Adopt A Walkable City
Greenway networks
“Quiet Roads”
Permissive access rights
The City’s
Ecosystem
Develop an Ecosystem City Model
•Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and Trees
Explore new funding mechanisms & joint partnerships
Biodiversity mapping
The City’s Green
Living Spaces
Adopt Integrated Area Plans
Protection of natural & built heritage
Integrate public health concerns
Sustainable tree planting policy
26. A NEW Green Vision
We have created a new Green Vision
which pulls together our work on
carbon reduction,
ecosystems services,
adapting to climate change
and the green economy.
Achieving integration across these areas is
the mark of a leading green city.
BIRMINGHAM’S
GREEN
COMMISSION
BUILDING A GREEN CITY
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
28. Civil Engineering;
Geography, Earth &
Environmental Sciences
Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts;
Imagination Lancaster
Civil Engineering;
Faculty of Engineering Science
Engineering and the Environment
Liveable Cities Team
29. • To understand how cities operate and
perform in terms of their people,
environment and governance.
• To establish how city performance relates
to the vision of low-carbon living, working,
conserving and consuming.
• To develop realistic and radical
engineering solutions, and test them as
interventions in case studies.
Liveable Cities Objectives
30. The CAM is an instrument to help a city
understand where it is, where it wants to be
and how it can get there.
The CAM
32. Vision
Goal
Dimension
Outcome
Strategy
Indicator:
Use of timber
from
renewable
resources
UK Cities will be low carbon,
sustainable cities providing the
highest quality of life with the
highest resource security
Minimize operational
and embodied carbon
Low carbon and low impact
materials
Maximise low carbon and low
impact materials
Use of renewable resources on
all residential new builds
CAM
34. Confederation of British Industry
John Cridland, the CBI’s Director-
General; summer 2012:-
“The so-called choice between going
green or going for growth is a false
one….With the right policies in place,
green business will be a major pillar of
our future growth”
Peter Bakker, CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable
Development
“Over the last 20 years - ever since the first Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro - business has become an important voice on sustainability
issues. It’s no longer simply part of the problem; it’s part of the
solution, if not the driver for it…..
…In fact, many companies worldwide have created their own
innovative programs to improve their sustainability.”
Annual Review
2012-13 –
“Accelerate Now”
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
35. Public
Sector
Private
Sector
“We will put natural capital at
the centre of economic thinking;
and at the heart of the way we
measure economic progress.”
NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
The City ‘Challenge’
map- can become an
‘Opportunities’ map
for private sector
investment;
A global market -$22
trillion, alliance of
Institutional
investors?
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD NOV 21
2012
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
38. At the City scale – potential for synergistic
public- private partnerships to meet the scale
of the ‘Challenge’;
At the Site scale – Natural Capital City Tool
pilot project:-
•to identify multiple benefits- economic,
social and environmental;
•to identify wider stakeholders;
•to identify future returns on investment
periods, per stakeholder;
Natural Capital acts as a catalyst to growth –
not a barrier.
“We will put natural capital at the centre of
economic thinking;
and at the heart of the way we measure
economic progress.”
NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham
39. • What are the key things we must do to make
Birmingham a leading green city?
• What are the priorities for 2013-2017?
• What are the barriers to achieving those
actions? What are the solutions to overcome
them?
• How can we seize the enormous social and
economic opportunities?
Discussion Session Outputs
Editor's Notes
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global CEO-led coalitionof some 200 international companies, from 35 countries and 22 sectors, with a shared commitment to sustainable development.
A pathway is a set of descriptions that illustrates the transition to a certain scenario, in this case Vision 2050. This pathway is composed of nine elements that demonstrate that behavior change and social innovation are as crucial as better solutions and technological innovation.Although distinct, the elements also show the interconnectedness of issues such as water, food and energy – relationships that must be considered in an integrated and holistic way, with tradeoffs that must be understood and addressed.The pathway and its elements neither prescribe nor predict, but are plausible stories the companies have created by “backcasting”, working back from the vision for 2050 and identifying the changes needed to reach it.
Thank-you for the invitation to this meetingIntroduce: Susan Lee. Post-doctoral Research Fellow working on the project since Jan.Liveable Cities Project, a prestigious, £6M research project led by Prof. Chris Rogers (Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham). Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). EPSRC is the UK’s main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences. EPSRC invests around £800 million a year in research and postgraduate training, to help the nation handle the next generation of technological change.Funded initially for five years but expected to continue longer as the research develops. Challenging hence flexibility in grant.Official start date: May 2012 but most of team started at the beginning of this year.Three case study cities: Birmingham, Southampton and Lancaster.First case study: Birmingham
BirminghamCivil Engineering. Prof Chris Rogers (Programme Director)Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences (GEES). Prof. Jon Sadler (Biogeography)Peter Braithwaite, Sustainability Advisor; Chairman Sustainability West Midlands; Senior Lecturer University of Birmingham; formerly European Head of Sustainability CH2M HILL (delivering the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Sustainable Development Strategy for the Olympic Park), Director ArupLancasterLancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. Prof Rachel Cooper (Wellbeing Lead )Imagination Lancaster. Chris Boyko is a Senior Research AssociateSouthampton Prof. AbuBakr Bahaj (Energy Lead). Engineering and the EnvironmentUCLProf. Nick Tyler (Engineering Solutions Lead)Prof. Brian Collins (Policy Lead) Faculty of Engineering Science;
Three case study cities: Birmingham, Southampton and Lancaster.First case study: Birmingham
This slide describes what the CAM is and what it might look like.It will contain quantitative and qualitative data, recommendations and pathways to success.It will draw together thinking from all the research teams, and is to be curated by Chris Rogers’ team.Part of it is likely to look something like these images.
Joanne Leach is leading on thisUK targetsEnergy efficiency – 80% carbon emission reduction on 1990 levels by 2050Water efficiency – less than 80 litres per person per day (half current UK usage)Resource management – zero waste
Taking the example of the dimension ‘low carbon and low impact materials’ through to its conclusion (hypothetically)