This document discusses challenges with the current system for delivering Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) and proposes adopting an alliance contracting model. The current DFG process is described as overly complex, with split responsibilities and costs across different organizations. This leads to conflicts and inefficiencies. An alliance model is proposed to foster greater collaboration across health, social care, housing, and other sectors through a single contract focused on outcomes rather than processes. Key aspects of an alliance contracting model are described, including shared governance, risk-sharing, and a focus on system-wide goals over individual organizational priorities. Adopting this approach may help reduce conflicts, costs, and stress while improving services for DFG customers.
The document discusses involving communities in natural flood management through volunteer groups. It provides examples of the Bodenham Flood Protection Group, made up of over 30 volunteers averaging 70 years old who regularly clear debris. It also describes the Northamptonshire County Council Pathfinder Project that worked with 15 communities at high risk of surface water flooding. This project provided resources to communities and trained over 30 volunteer flood wardens. The goal is to work with communities to manage flooding through education and preparedness.
Presentation by Heather Shepherd from National Flood Forum regarding Flood Community & Recovery Support. Presented at Natural Flood Management conference January 25th 2017 at University of Gloucestershire. Hosted by CCRI and Stroud District Council
This document discusses challenges with the current system for delivering Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) and proposes adopting an alliance contracting model. The current DFG process is described as overly complex, with split responsibilities and costs across different organizations. This leads to conflicts and inefficiencies. An alliance model is proposed to foster greater collaboration across health, social care, housing, and other sectors through a single contract focused on outcomes rather than processes. Key aspects of an alliance contracting model are described, including shared governance, risk-sharing, and a focus on system-wide goals over individual organizational priorities. Adopting this approach may help reduce conflicts, costs, and stress while improving services for DFG customers.
The document discusses involving communities in natural flood management through volunteer groups. It provides examples of the Bodenham Flood Protection Group, made up of over 30 volunteers averaging 70 years old who regularly clear debris. It also describes the Northamptonshire County Council Pathfinder Project that worked with 15 communities at high risk of surface water flooding. This project provided resources to communities and trained over 30 volunteer flood wardens. The goal is to work with communities to manage flooding through education and preparedness.
Presentation by Heather Shepherd from National Flood Forum regarding Flood Community & Recovery Support. Presented at Natural Flood Management conference January 25th 2017 at University of Gloucestershire. Hosted by CCRI and Stroud District Council
The document outlines regulations and procedures for tree felling and obtaining permission in Gloucestershire. It discusses Forestry Commission woodland officers, felling regulations under the Forestry Act 1967 which require licenses, and exemptions. It also describes the Countryside Stewardship grants including the Woodland Management Plan Grant (PA3) and Woodland Improvement Grant (WD2) which provide funding for woodland improvement plans and activities.
This document from Natural England outlines their regulatory role regarding natural flood management projects. It discusses three main areas where early discussion with Natural England is required: 1) if the land contains protected sites like Sites of Special Scientific Interest, 2) if it supports any protected species, and 3) if the land is under an agri-environment scheme. For each area, it provides guidance on consultation procedures and potential impacts to consider.
This document discusses promoting choice for individuals in health and social care. It notes that individuals should have informed choices about their care but are not always able to exercise that right. Some reasons why include staff not realizing choices are available, individuals having difficulty expressing choices, or staff being in a hurry. The document emphasizes the link between giving individuals choice and their well-being, and provides examples of everyday choices people make. It also gives suggestions for promoting autonomy and choice, such as adapting environments, offering choice of activities, and providing advocates.
The document discusses ways that students can develop their learning capabilities, including establishing their learning style (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic), exploring ways to strengthen literacy/numeracy skills and use technology as learning tools, assessing personal and learning goals by defining strategies to achieve them, and reflecting and refining goals over time using feedback. It provides examples of skills and recommends monitoring goals frequently and reflecting on what has been learned.
Presentation given by Damian Maye at the FoodMetres results briefing on 24th September in Brussels. More information about Damian can be found: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/maye/
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
This document provides an outline for an assignment on film study conventions. It lists the required sections of the assignment which include an exploration of films, choosing a film and justifying the choice, analyzing the genre and subgenres, discussing various film theories, and examining semantics, syntax, iconography, and conventions. It then provides details on the film Half Nelson, including reasoning for choosing it, its genres of drama and various subgenres. The document analyzes conventions of the genre in relation to the film and provides comparisons to other films. It examines dominant ideologies presented in the film and theories on why certain audiences would be attracted to watching it.
The document discusses variable frequency drives (VFDs) and their applications. VFDs can control the frequency and voltage supplied to AC motors to vary their speed. They allow control of parameters like voltage, frequency, and maximum temperature. Common applications of VFDs include heating, ventilation, air conditioning, wastewater treatment, and various industrial processes. The document also describes different types of converters that can be used in VFDs like voltage source inverters, cycloconverters, and regenerative converters.
A series of visualizations to stimulate thinking about climate change. Using UKCP09 high emissions projections and a variety of scenes from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds.
A presentation given by Dan Keech at East Devon AONB, covering alternative approches to orchard conservation management - with examples from England and Germany.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
By Matt Reed and Dan Keech
Presentation at Critical Foodscapes conference
Warwick University 7th July 2016
Matt Reed & Dan Keech, CCRI, University of Gloucestershire
This presentation highlights a need to extend our thinking about food chains and their performance. It explores the way in which local and global food is perceived and defined in the public, market, scientific and policy spheres, by focusing on the relationships between various attributes associated with these food supply chains. The research project GLAMUR is used to contextualize these issues.
Aims of Presentation:
Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about the social order and coordinating ‘problems’ inherent in market exchange.
Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are useful for observing environmental outcomes from rural markets? In this case the environmental mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere conservation.
Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will attempt the leap.
Alliance Best Practice Research into Cultural Factors in Strategic Alliance R...Mike Nevin
This research presentation was produced from 93 separate alliance manager inputs from organisations such as: PPD, Quintiles, Cognizant, Covance, ICON, and RPS.
The research shows a very high correlation between Cultural Success Factors in alliances and overall success.
HOW SHOULD MAJOR DECISIONS BE MADE IN A BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP?Julian Swartz
HOW SHOULD MAJOR DECISIONS BE MADE IN A BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP?
There are three basic commercial decision-making choices in partnerships: consensus, partner conversation, or delegation. The Articles of Partnership document of a company contains a lot of information about its structure and decision-making procedures.
What Are the 5 Essential Elements of a Partnership Agreement?
The value of capital contributions
Partnering responsibilities
It is decided how earnings and losses will be distributed.
Acceptance of responsibility
Dispute resolution
Read more...https://julianswartz.com/f/how-should-major-decisions-be-made-in-a-business-partnership
The document discusses the four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. In the forming stage, team members first meet and learn about the project and each other. The storming stage involves addressing tasks, roles, and conflicts as members confront opinions. During norming, members focus on working together respectfully. In the performing stage, members work interdependently without guidance to achieve goals. Understanding these stages can help determine a team's success or failure.
Best Practices Of Managing Virtual Software Development TeamsMarisela Stone
Virtual teams have several advantages over traditional colocated teams, including reduced costs from eliminating travel expenses, a larger pool of talent to draw from regardless of location, and the ability to operate across time zones to facilitate around-the-clock work. However, virtual teams also face significant challenges like difficulties building trust and communication breakdowns when members are geographically dispersed and rely primarily on technology to collaborate. Effective practices for managing virtual teams include establishing clear expectations, facilitating informal social interactions to build relationships, and providing training to develop skills for virtual collaboration.
The document outlines regulations and procedures for tree felling and obtaining permission in Gloucestershire. It discusses Forestry Commission woodland officers, felling regulations under the Forestry Act 1967 which require licenses, and exemptions. It also describes the Countryside Stewardship grants including the Woodland Management Plan Grant (PA3) and Woodland Improvement Grant (WD2) which provide funding for woodland improvement plans and activities.
This document from Natural England outlines their regulatory role regarding natural flood management projects. It discusses three main areas where early discussion with Natural England is required: 1) if the land contains protected sites like Sites of Special Scientific Interest, 2) if it supports any protected species, and 3) if the land is under an agri-environment scheme. For each area, it provides guidance on consultation procedures and potential impacts to consider.
This document discusses promoting choice for individuals in health and social care. It notes that individuals should have informed choices about their care but are not always able to exercise that right. Some reasons why include staff not realizing choices are available, individuals having difficulty expressing choices, or staff being in a hurry. The document emphasizes the link between giving individuals choice and their well-being, and provides examples of everyday choices people make. It also gives suggestions for promoting autonomy and choice, such as adapting environments, offering choice of activities, and providing advocates.
The document discusses ways that students can develop their learning capabilities, including establishing their learning style (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic), exploring ways to strengthen literacy/numeracy skills and use technology as learning tools, assessing personal and learning goals by defining strategies to achieve them, and reflecting and refining goals over time using feedback. It provides examples of skills and recommends monitoring goals frequently and reflecting on what has been learned.
Presentation given by Damian Maye at the FoodMetres results briefing on 24th September in Brussels. More information about Damian can be found: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/maye/
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
This document provides an outline for an assignment on film study conventions. It lists the required sections of the assignment which include an exploration of films, choosing a film and justifying the choice, analyzing the genre and subgenres, discussing various film theories, and examining semantics, syntax, iconography, and conventions. It then provides details on the film Half Nelson, including reasoning for choosing it, its genres of drama and various subgenres. The document analyzes conventions of the genre in relation to the film and provides comparisons to other films. It examines dominant ideologies presented in the film and theories on why certain audiences would be attracted to watching it.
The document discusses variable frequency drives (VFDs) and their applications. VFDs can control the frequency and voltage supplied to AC motors to vary their speed. They allow control of parameters like voltage, frequency, and maximum temperature. Common applications of VFDs include heating, ventilation, air conditioning, wastewater treatment, and various industrial processes. The document also describes different types of converters that can be used in VFDs like voltage source inverters, cycloconverters, and regenerative converters.
A series of visualizations to stimulate thinking about climate change. Using UKCP09 high emissions projections and a variety of scenes from Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds.
A presentation given by Dan Keech at East Devon AONB, covering alternative approches to orchard conservation management - with examples from England and Germany.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
By Matt Reed and Dan Keech
Presentation at Critical Foodscapes conference
Warwick University 7th July 2016
Matt Reed & Dan Keech, CCRI, University of Gloucestershire
This presentation highlights a need to extend our thinking about food chains and their performance. It explores the way in which local and global food is perceived and defined in the public, market, scientific and policy spheres, by focusing on the relationships between various attributes associated with these food supply chains. The research project GLAMUR is used to contextualize these issues.
Aims of Presentation:
Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about the social order and coordinating ‘problems’ inherent in market exchange.
Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are useful for observing environmental outcomes from rural markets? In this case the environmental mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere conservation.
Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will attempt the leap.
Alliance Best Practice Research into Cultural Factors in Strategic Alliance R...Mike Nevin
This research presentation was produced from 93 separate alliance manager inputs from organisations such as: PPD, Quintiles, Cognizant, Covance, ICON, and RPS.
The research shows a very high correlation between Cultural Success Factors in alliances and overall success.
HOW SHOULD MAJOR DECISIONS BE MADE IN A BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP?Julian Swartz
HOW SHOULD MAJOR DECISIONS BE MADE IN A BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP?
There are three basic commercial decision-making choices in partnerships: consensus, partner conversation, or delegation. The Articles of Partnership document of a company contains a lot of information about its structure and decision-making procedures.
What Are the 5 Essential Elements of a Partnership Agreement?
The value of capital contributions
Partnering responsibilities
It is decided how earnings and losses will be distributed.
Acceptance of responsibility
Dispute resolution
Read more...https://julianswartz.com/f/how-should-major-decisions-be-made-in-a-business-partnership
The document discusses the four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. In the forming stage, team members first meet and learn about the project and each other. The storming stage involves addressing tasks, roles, and conflicts as members confront opinions. During norming, members focus on working together respectfully. In the performing stage, members work interdependently without guidance to achieve goals. Understanding these stages can help determine a team's success or failure.
Best Practices Of Managing Virtual Software Development TeamsMarisela Stone
Virtual teams have several advantages over traditional colocated teams, including reduced costs from eliminating travel expenses, a larger pool of talent to draw from regardless of location, and the ability to operate across time zones to facilitate around-the-clock work. However, virtual teams also face significant challenges like difficulties building trust and communication breakdowns when members are geographically dispersed and rely primarily on technology to collaborate. Effective practices for managing virtual teams include establishing clear expectations, facilitating informal social interactions to build relationships, and providing training to develop skills for virtual collaboration.
This document summarizes a presentation on establishing multiple streams of income through partnership, networking, and strategic alliances. It discusses the benefits of partnerships, such as a stronger firm and improved competence. Strategic alliances can help companies achieve goals more quickly by combining objectives. Networking is important for career growth by building relationships, raising one's profile, and accessing new opportunities. Public analysts should pursue additional sources of income to achieve financial freedom and independence. Partnerships, alliances, and networking can create new opportunities while professionalism and trust are important principles.
Building a successful relationship with joint venture partners non fluor inputBob Prieto
Input is solicited on joint ventures in the engineering and construction industry. Results will be shared with responders. Please complete the questionnaire and email to bob.prieto@fluor.com
This document discusses indicators of successful partnerships and provides guidance on launching, maintaining, and sustaining partnerships. It emphasizes the importance of clarity of vision and purpose, commitment from partners, effective communication, and embedding partnerships into existing structures. Metrics for tracking partnership success include evidence that the partnership enhanced access, pedagogy, and was responsive to emerging needs. Successful "collabornauts" make connections between partners, introduce groups, and build relationships to benefit from combined resources.
Good practice in partnerships for international developmentNIDOS
This document outlines an agenda and aims for a 1-day training course on effective partnerships between southern and northern organizations. It discusses defining partnerships, challenges like power imbalances, setting up partnerships through assessing benefits and capacities, and ensuring accountability, transparency and mutual benefit. Common pitfalls like mismatches in size or lack of clarity in roles are addressed. The goal is cultivating equitable, sustainable partnerships between autonomous organizations to achieve social change.
IGF 2016 Workshop #153 Let's break down silosWout de Natris
- The workshop brought together organizations working in cybersecurity and cybercrime to discuss best practices for cooperation. Key factors for successful cooperation included having a shared challenge to address, building trust between individuals over multiple meetings, establishing transparency and commitment to a common goal.
- Participants described how neutral venues, establishing shared expectations, and voluntary cooperation were important. Government assistance can help initially but regulation should be a last resort.
- Moving forward, the IGF could help distribute these lessons and bring more stakeholders together. Further discussion could strengthen understanding and cooperation between organizations.
The Partnering Initiative works with individuals, organisations and systems to promote and develop partnerships for sustainable development - between business, government and civil society. Ros Tennyson presented as part of SiG's Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series. This is the presentation she spoke to;
15 Partnership Principles for Interprofessional Education NetworksStefanus Snyman
Effective partnerships require clear principles and guidelines to function properly. They must have strong leadership through a facilitator or team, a shared purpose and vision, and clearly defined objectives and goals. Partners must build relationships based on trust, openness and mutual understanding, focusing on their common goals rather than differences. Wide participation, ongoing skills development, and recognition that partnership is a continuous process are also important. Effective partners represent their own organizations while also advocating for the partnership.
Impact Of Globalization On The Communities Of Persons And...Angela Williams
Zappos' core business is online retail, focusing on delivering happiness to customers through exceptional customer service and a culture focused on employee satisfaction. They grew rapidly by prioritizing their company culture and values like creating fun, embracing diversity, and encouraging risk-taking and learning from mistakes. This unconventional approach to business helped Zappos succeed financially and serve as a model for other companies.
John Buckingham, former Johnson & Johnson Pharma VP of Business Development and SVP, Alliance Management for a semi-virtual US specialty pharma company, explores a number of key considerations in preparing for negotiations of original licensing agreements, as well as for re-negotiations, a common requirement of both successful and struggling collaborations.
John focuses particular attention on how to better understand the needs and motivations of a prospective partner and, closely related to this, what governance considerations to strive for during negotiation of an agreement.
This session is a must for anyone who has had direct, personal experiences with the "good, bad and the ugly" of licensing agreements.
Part of the MaRS Best Practices Event Series: http://www.marsdd.com/events/details.html?uuid=59a78761-cac4-4015-a5a5-7f63522408e9
Collaboration is a hot buzzword these days. In this article we go back to basics. We define it, compare it to other forms of working together and look at the critical success factors behind successful collaboration.
Why are alliance sales so misunderstood? After all they represent a dramatically lower cost of sale than other alternatives? Is it because they involve joint value creation? make up your own mind by reading this simple presentation.
The document introduces the Partnering Agreement Scorecard, a tool to help partners design comprehensive agreements. It discusses why partnerships need agreements, the challenges in drafting them, and provides insights from examples. The scorecard addresses seven key questions partners should consider, such as the partners involved, objectives, implementation plans, and dispute resolution processes. Comprehensive agreements clarify roles, adapt to changes, and support effective collaboration over time.
This document discusses networks, partnerships, and stakeholder relations in community organizations. It explores how to define networks and partnerships, power dynamics and decision making within partnerships, and issues of accountability. The document notes that organizations are expected to work with other groups and agencies through partnerships, and this module aims to examine the ideas and debates around partnership working and how to learn from experiences to inform practice.
Strategic alliances and collaborations 2010 jmagisano
This document summarizes a presentation about strategic alliances and collaborations. It discusses the current challenges facing non-profit organizations that create opportunities for collaboration. These challenges include greater needs, less funding, and changing demographics. The document then outlines different models for collaboration, potential tensions, and factors for successful collaboration. It provides guidance on identifying collaborative partners and defining the terms of collaboration through agreements and memorandums. Resources for additional information on collaborations are also listed.
Similar to Working in Partnership: Workshop Briefing by Brian Smith, Environment Agency, NFM Adviser (20)
Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
The presentation will give a brief overview of the 'UrbanFarmer' project and its various facets, including the integration of a cohort of Norwegian farmers and agricultural research organisations in the co-production of applied knowledge.
The main thrust of the presentation will be to present similarities and differences in the way that food in short food supply chains is marketed through different farm enterprise business models, and different sales channels. Differences in policy backdrops and other, related, contexts which help or hinder urban marketing through short food supply chains concluding with some ideas of emerging recommendations will also be explored.
Dr Anna Birgitte Milford is a researcher at Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, working on topics related to sustainable food production and consumption, including organic/pesticide reduced fruit and veg production, local sales channels and climate friendly diets. She was a visiting scholar at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire in autumn 2021 conducting field research on urban agriculture and local sales channels in Bristol.
Dr Dan Keech is a Senior Research Fellow at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire. His research topics cover European urban and alternative food networks, Anglo-German cultural geography and trans-disciplinary methods which link art and social science.
Slides from Damian Maye's Seminar - Using Living Labs to Strengthen Rural-Urban Linkages - Reflections from a multi-actor research project
Footage available at: https://youtu.be/Es1VHe69Mcw
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Making meditation a part of a daily routine, even if just 10-15 minutes per day, can offer improvements to mood, focus, and overall well-being over time.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document contains a presentation on research into bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and the related controversy over badger culling in the UK. The presentation discusses the research gap around understanding disease management practices and controversies. It outlines an ethnographic methodology to study multiple perspectives on the issue. Key findings include observations from badger culling operations and protests against culling, as well as results from a citizen science study on bTB prevalence in dead badgers. The presentation emphasizes how disease management practices shape understandings of disease and that controversies can foster alternative perspectives.
Presentation given by Dr Alessio Russ 8th July for CCRI seminar series.
Over the last few decades, the school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. This talk addresses concepts and metaphors such as nature-based solutions and wellbeing, ecosystem services, nature-based thinking, urban regeneration, urban agriculture, urban-rural interface, rewilding.
The Going the Extra Mile (GEM) project aims to help people overcome challenges to employment and move closer to or into work. An evaluation team from the University of Gloucestershire conducted extensive monitoring and evaluation of GEM using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Process evaluations found that GEM provided innovative, relevant support during the pandemic. Outcomes evaluations found improvements in areas like skills, confidence and social connections. A social return on investment model estimated £2.50 returned for every £1 invested in GEM. Inclusive evaluation methods like digital storytelling captured personal impact stories. The evaluation aims to inform the design of any successor to GEM.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
Water contamination is one of the major causes of water borne diseases worldwide. In Kenya, approximately 43% of people lack access to potable water due to human contamination. River Kuywa water is currently experiencing contamination due to human activities. Its water is widely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes. This study aimed at characterizing bacteria and fungi in river Kuywa water. Water samples were randomly collected from four sites of the river: site A (Matisi), site B (Ngwelo), site C (Nzoia water pump) and site D (Chalicha), during the dry season (January-March 2018) and wet season (April-July 2018) and were transported to Maseno University Microbiology and plant pathology laboratory for analysis. The characterization and identification of bacteria and fungi were carried out using standard microbiological techniques. Nine bacterial genera and three fungi were identified from Kuywa river water. Clostridium spp., Staphylococcus spp., Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Shigella spp., Proteus spp. and Salmonella spp. Fungi were Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus complex and Penicillium species. Wet season recorded highest bacterial and fungal counts (6.61-7.66 and 3.83-6.75cfu/ml) respectively. The results indicated that the river Kuywa water is polluted and therefore unsafe for human consumption before treatment. It is therefore recommended that the communities to ensure that they boil water especially for drinking.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...vijaykumar292010
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as the Directive 2002/95/EC. It includes the restrictions for the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is a WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
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Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
2. A definition:
Partnership is a collaborative relationship
between two or more parties based on trust,
equality and mutual understanding for the
achievement of a specified goal.
3. Although an understanding of partnership is
taken for granted,
there is little clarity about the concept.
4. A single, unambiguous definition of partnership
working does not exist.
In the practice many identify partnership as:
an umbrella term embracing different complex
relationships.
5. “The number of runs added by a pair of
batsmen before one of them is dismissed or
the innings ends” (OED)
6. We are going to explore a series of themes around the
concept of working in partnership:
What does working in partnership mean to you?
What barriers are there to building an effective partnership?
What risks are there in partnership working?
What benefits are there to partnership working?
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