Plans to pare down climate centre anger UK ecologists

Lofty missions, down-to-earth plans.

Most nonprofits make program decisions based on a mission rather than a strategy. They rally under the banner of a particular cause, be it "fight homelessness" or "end hunger." And since their causes are so worthwhile, they support any programs that are related--even tangentially--to their core missions. It's hard to fault people for trying to improve the state of the world, but that approach t...

Climate change adaptation frameworks: an evaluation of plans for coastal Suffolk, UK

This paper asserts that three principal frameworks for climate change adaptation can be recognised in the literature: scenario-led (SL), vulnerability-led (VL) and decisioncentric (DC) frameworks. A criterion is developed to differentiate these frameworks in recent adaptation projects. The criterion features six key hallmarks as follows: (1) use of climate model information; (2) analysis of met...

The UK Technical Information Centre

The UK Technical Information Centre (TIC, URL-3 1999) is one of a set of Internet-based services developed in the EC funded project CONNET (URL-1 1999). The TIC aims to provide a single source of information on any purchasable publication of relevance to the built environment in the UK. Over 220 publishers have been identified and it is estimated that information on about 50,000 publications wi...

El Pare

EL PARE Com que vivia a Batignolles i treballava al ministeri d’Instrucció Pública, cada dia agafava l’òmnibus per anar fins al despatx. I cada matí feia el trajecte fins al centre de París, davant una noia de qui es va enamorar. Ella anava a la seva botiga, cada dia, a la mateixa hora. Era una moreneta menuda, d’aquestes brunes que tenen els ulls tan negres que semblen taques i un color de car...

New rules for homoeopathic remedies anger UK peers.