16 research outputs found
Can participatory emissions budgeting help local authorities to tackle climate change?
A lack of concerted action on the part of local authorities and their citizens to respond to climate change is argued to arise partly from a poor relationship between the two. Meanwhile, local authorities could have a significant impact on community-wide levels of greenhouse gas emissions because of their influence over many other actors, but have had limited success with orthodox voluntary behaviour change methods and hold back from stricter behaviour change interventions. Citizen participation may offer an effective means of improving understanding between citizens and government concerning climate change and, because it is inherently a dialogue, avoids many of the pitfalls of more orthodox attempts to effect behaviour change. Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation which seems well suited to the task in being quantitative, drawing a diverse audience and, when successfully run, engendering confidence amongst authority stakeholders. A variant of it, participatory emissions budgeting, would introduce the issue of climate change in a way that required citizens to trade off greenhouse gas emissions with wider policy goals. It may help citizens to appreciate the nature of the challenge and the role of local government in responding; this may in turn provide authority stakeholders with increased confidence in the scope to implement pro-environmental agendas without meeting significant resistance
Uranium resource availability
This paper is the last in a series of 8 that make up the evidence base for SDC report 'The role of nuclear power in a low carbon economy'.This report reviews the future availability of uranium resources via an assessment of the demand for uranium from civilian reactors, and of the potential supply of uranium fuel. When considered together, these analysis raise interesting questions relating to energy supply.Publisher PD
Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech:Návrh Strategie implementace a investic pro nakládánàs odpady
Účelem národnĂ stretagie je sblĂĹľenĂ legislativy EU a ÄŚR , zajištÄ›nĂ politickĂ©ho a rozhodovacĂho rámce pro nakládánĂ s odpady a pro pĹ™Ăpravu krajskĂ˝ch koncepcĂ nakládánĂ s odpady. TĂ˝ká se odpadĹŻ definovanĂ˝ch v rámcovĂ© smÄ›rnici o odpadech a tÄ›ch, pro kterĂ© jsou vypracovány jednotlivĂ© smÄ›rnice. Nevztahuje se na nakládánĂ s radioaktivnĂmi odpady, odpady z těžebnĂ ÄŤinnosti nebo na vedlejšà produkty ĹľivoÄŤišnĂ©ho pĹŻvodu. Strategie popisuje nakládánĂ s odpady v ÄŚR, uvádĂ opatĹ™enĂ nezbytná k dosaĹľenĂ zmÄ›ny, analyzuje nezbytnĂ© zdroje a finaÄŤnĂ dopady. Na závÄ›r se zabĂ˝vá monitorovánĂm a hodnocenĂm strategie
Strategie implementace a investic pro smÄ›rnice EvropskĂ© komise o odpadech:Program investic, harmonogram, financovánĂ
Zpráva obsahuje odhady a plány kapitálovĂ˝ch investic nezbytnĂ˝ch pro dosaĹľenĂ plnĂ© kompability se smÄ›rnicemi EU o odpadech. Jsou uvedeny investiÄŤnĂ poĹľadavky, pĹ™edpokládanĂ© provoznĂ náklady a moĹľnĂ© zdroje financovánĂ. V pĹ™Ăloze je obsaĹľen Návrh rozvoje systĂ©mĹŻ nakládánĂ s odpady
Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech:Aktualizované přehledové zprávy
Zpráva obsahuje souhrnnĂ© Ăşdaje o jednotlivĂ˝ch specifickĂ˝ch proudech odpadĹŻ a zaĹ™ĂzenĂch nebo technologiĂch pro nakládánĂ s odpady, kterĂ© jsou pĹ™edmÄ›tem Ăşpravy smÄ›rnic EvropskĂ© komise. Jsou uvedeny poznatky o stavu skládek v ÄŚR, o nakládánĂ s bateriemi a akumulátory z roku 2001
Report and accounts
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Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech: Návrhová zpráva
Zpráva obsahuje pĹ™ehled plánovanĂ˝ch Ăşloh projetku. V pĹ™Ăloze je uveden návrh KomunikaÄŤnĂ strategie pro ImplementaÄŤnĂ a investiÄŤnĂ strategii. Jsou analyzovány komunikaÄŤnĂ nástroje a cĂlovĂ© skupiny
UKPADD-6 Evaluated decay data library, March 1999
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The application of scanning electron microscopy to the determination of elemental and isotopic composition in individual actinide particles
Techniques for the determination of both elemental and isotopic composition of actinides within single particles are required by the IAEA in support of their environmental safeguards programme. SEM and SIMS are valuable techniques for the measurement of elemental and isotopic composition, respectively, on the particle scale. The potential for effective combination of SEM and SIMS has been investigated at Harwell Laboratory. In trials, copper finder grids have been successfully used to enable re-identification of particles between SEM and SIMS instruments. Use of the grids enables rapid relocation of particles pre-selected by SEM for SIMS measurement. The work has highlighted a possible matrix effect in plutonium measurement that results in variable sensitivity dependent on the presence of other elements (including uranium). This effect would limit the use of SIMS to obtain elemental ratios, and highlights the requirement to use both SEM and SIMS to gain full and accurate information. The possible use of autoradiography as an adjunct to SEM has been investigated. In principle, autoradiography could be used to identify higher enrichments of uranium and enable pre-selection of particles for SIMS measurement. During trials, practical problems have been encountered which have demonstrated this particular approach to be unsuitable. (author)Also issued as AEAT/R/NS/0108 and UK A01036Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:9082.66732(277) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo