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Rethinking Urban Sprawl Moving Towards Sustainable Cities
This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences.
Decarbonising Urban Mobility with Land Use and Transport Policies The Case of Auckland, New Zealand
The report presents an in-depth analysis of various policies that aim to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of urban transport. Decarbonising transport lies at the core of efforts to mitigate climate change and has close links to urban sustainability and housing affordability. The report identifies the drivers of rising emissions in the urban transport sector and offers pathways to reduce them through a combination of transport and land use policies.
Groundwater Frontiers - Techniques and Challenges
Groundwater occurs throughout the complex subsurface of the globe, and it is an unexplored zone of great scientific and environmental importance. The book Groundwater Frontiers - Techniques and Challenges examines hydrogeological research and management approaches throughout African terrains while penetrating into the delicate area of underground water supplies. The advanced techniques applied to investigate, map, and preserve underground water resources in many types of challenging environments, including complex geological formations or dried-out ecosystems, are illustrated in this book. The book provides novel insights into groundwater dynamics, conservation approaches, and sustainable ma...
Delivering Better Policies Through Behavioural Insights New Approaches
As behavioural insights (BI) become more widely used, countries are looking to expand the application of the methodology to new frontiers of policy making.
Redesigning Ireland’s Transport for Net Zero Towards Systems that Work for People and the Planet
Current mobility patterns in Ireland are incompatible with the country’s target to halve emissions in the transport sector by 2030. While important, electrification and fuel efficiency improvements in vehicles are insufficient to meet Ireland’s ambitious target: large behavioural change in the direction of sustainable modes and travel reductions are needed.
Non-exhaust Particulate Emissions from Road Transport An Ignored Environmental Policy Challenge
Non-exhaust emissions of particulate matter constitute a little-known but rising share of emissions from road traffic and have significant negative impacts on public health. This report synthesizes the current state of knowledge about the nature, causes, and consequences of non-exhaust particulate emissions. It also projects how particulate matter emissions from non-exhaust sources may evolve in future years and reflects on policy instrument mixes that can address this largely ignored environmental issue.
Building Financial Resilience to Climate Impacts A Framework for Governments to Manage the Risks of Losses and Damages
Governments are facing significant climate-related risks from the expected increase in frequency and intensity of cyclones, floods, fires, and other climate-related extreme events. The report Building Financial Resilience to Climate Impacts: A Framework for Governments to Manage the Risks of Losses and Damages provides a strategic framework to help governments, particularly those in emerging market and developing economies, strengthen their capacity to manage the financial implications of climate-related risks.
Behavioural Insights and Public Policy Lessons from Around the World
This report discusses the use and reach of behavioural insights, drawing on a comprehensive collection of over 100 applications across the world and policy sectors.
OECD Studies on Water Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Freshwater Monitoring and Regulating Water Quality
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are contaminants of emerging environmental and health concern that have been detected in freshwater, wastewater and drinking water. They interfere with the endocrine system in humans and wildlife, and produce adverse effects such as developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune effects.
Landscape and Sustainable Development
Previously published in French by Éditions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable development. While led by French scholars, the research team and geographical scope of the project was international, collaborative and comparative. Using case studies from across Europe, the interdisciplinary team of contributors discuss the relationship between landscape as defined by the European Landscape Convention and the concept of sustainable development. This English edition has a new introduction written by Yves Luginbühl and Peter Howard. The book is then divided into three sections: Biophysical Realities and Landscape Practice; Landscape Resources-Inheritance and Renewal; Governance and Participation. Some of the topics covered, such as wind-farm landscapes, will be familiar to English language readers, but others, such as footpath economics, non-woodland trees, inter-generational equity, and the insistence on the necessary developments in governance less so.
