Sustainable Waste Management Project: Promotion of cloth nappy use in Durham

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Governing Sustainable Waste Management: Designing sustainable waste management into the housing sector

In seeking to shift municipal waste policy towards sustainability, policy-makers at European, national and local levels are facing the challenge of how to engage householders in reducing, reusing and recycling their waste. This in turn means engaging with the arena within which day to day waste management activities are practiced – the home. In view of this critical relationship between waste policy and household practices, this research project1 has sought to examine: • the ways in which new infrastructures for managing waste are being ‘designed in’ to new housing developments and renovated kitchens in the UK and Europe; • the barriers identified by key actors in the as impending the pursuit of a more integrated approach to housing design and waste management and how these might be overcome; • examples of best practice currently being developed in the UK and their applicability in the context of the North-East of England

Sustainable Waste Management Project: Newcastle City Council Recycling Centres

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Home composting promotion in Newcastle

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The governance of innovation diffusion – a socio-technical analysis of energy policy

This paper describes a dynamic price mechanism to coordinate electric power generation from micro Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) systems in a network of households. It is assumed that the households are prosumers, i.e. both producers and consumers of electricity. The control is done on household level in a completely distributed manner. Avoiding a centralized controller both eases computation complexity and preserves communication structure in the network. Local information is used to decide to turn on or off the micro-CHP, but through price signals between the prosumers the network as a whole operates in a cooperative way

Sustainable Waste Management Project: Haverton Hill Furniture Reuse Scheme

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Haverton Hill Furniture Reuse Scheme

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Local climate change policy in the United Kingdom and Germany

For over a decade climate change has been considered one of the most significant political issues facing the international community. In order to address this challenge, attention needs to be focused not only at the international level of treaties and conventions, but also on how climate protection policy is taking shape at the local level. Germany and the UK have been leading countries for international action on climate change. However, the reductions in domestic emissions of greenhouse gas emissions achieved benefited in both countries from specific circumstances. This report details the national climate change policy, the structure of local governments, their competencies and powers, the institutionalisation of local climate change policy, the most important spheres of action and the different roles played by municipalities in local climate protection policy in both countries.Seit mehr als zehn Jahren wird der Klimawandel als eine der wichtigsten politischen Herausforderungen betrachtet, mit denen sich die internationale Gemeinschaft konfrontiert sieht. Um diese meistern zu können, darf sich die Aufmerksamkeit nicht nur auf Verträge und Konventionen auf der internationalen Ebene beschränken, sondern muss sich auch auf die Umsetzung des Klimaschutzes auf der lokalen Ebene richten. Deutschland und Großbritannien sind im Bereich des Klimaschutzes international führende Nationen. Allerdings wurde die Reduktion der Treibhausgasemissionen in beiden Ländern durch die jeweiligen Rahmenbedingungen erheblich begünstigt. Der vorliegende Bericht beschäftigt sich mit der nationalen Klimaschutzpolitik, der Struktur der Kommunen, ihren Zuständigkeiten, der Institutionalisierung der lokalen Klimapolitik, den wichtigsten Handlungsbereichen sowie mit den unterschiedlichen Rollen der Kommunen im Bereich des Klimaschutzes in beiden Ländern