16 research outputs found

    Can participatory emissions budgeting help local authorities to tackle climate change?

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    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

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    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 nakládání s odpady

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    Účelem národní stretagie je sblížení legislativy EU a ČR , zajištění politického a rozhodovacího rámce pro nakládání s odpady a pro přípravu krajských koncepcí nakládání s odpady. Týká se odpadů definovaných v rámcové směrnici o odpadech a těch, pro které jsou vypracovány jednotlivé směrnice. Nevztahuje se na nakládání s radioaktivními odpady, odpady z těžební činnosti nebo na vedlejší produkty živočišného původu. Strategie popisuje nakládání s odpady v ČR, uvádí opatření nezbytná k dosažení změny, analyzuje nezbytné zdroje a finační dopady. Na závěr se zabývá monitorováním a hodnocením strategie

    Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech:Program investic, harmonogram, financování

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    Zpráva obsahuje odhady a plány kapitálových investic nezbytných pro dosažení plné kompability se směrnicemi EU o odpadech. Jsou uvedeny investiční požadavky, předpokládané provozní náklady a možné zdroje financování. V příloze je obsažen Návrh rozvoje systémů nakládání s odpady

    Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech:Aktualizované přehledové zprávy

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    Zpráva obsahuje souhrnné údaje o jednotlivých specifických proudech odpadů a zařízeních nebo technologiích pro nakládání s odpady, které jsou předmětem úpravy směrnic Evropské komise. Jsou uvedeny poznatky o stavu skládek v ČR, o nakládání s bateriemi a akumulátory z roku 2001

    Report and accounts

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    SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:7637.91567(1998) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

    Strategie implementace a investic pro směrnice Evropské komise o odpadech: Návrhová zpráva

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    Zpráva obsahuje přehled plánovaných úloh projetku. V příloze je uveden návrh Komunikační strategie pro Implementační a investiční strategii. Jsou analyzovány komunikační nástroje a cílové 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

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    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
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