English Regional Planning 2000-2010

English Regional Planning 2000-2010
Author: Corinne Swain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415526043

Annotation This title chronicles recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning, where large steps forward were made during these years, but where policy making often proved very controversial.

Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain

Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain
Author: David Bird
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785703226

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the ‘civilian’ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. The focus is particularly on Kent, Surrey and Sussex account is taken of information from neighboring counties, particularly when the difficult subsoils affect the availability of evidence. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in each county, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London. Agriculture and industry provides an up-to-date assessment of our knowledge of the southern hinterland of Roman London and an area that was particularly open to influences from the Continent.

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia
Author: Adeline Koh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131766292X

Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries. Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy. Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Women’s Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

UKIP

UKIP
Author: Matthew J. Goodwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2015
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198736118

The exciting inside story of the Ukip insurgency in British politics - and what it means for our understanding of the shifting political landscape of modern Britain.

Self-Orientalization in South East Europe

Self-Orientalization in South East Europe
Author: Plamen K. Georgiev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3531932713

The collapse of communist systems in South East Europe resulted in a landscape to be newly arranged. Diverse forces compete to capture the popular energies released by the embrace of old and new identities. Deficits of modernization in a post communist nexus have deepened cultural asymmetries and challenge EU integration in new ways. Drives to rule of the “strong hand”, feod-like patron-client relations, “self-orientalization” as result of dilettante “social engineering” and unrealistic cultural politics increase the entropy of transition. Plamen K. Georgiev discusses the most controversial issues of a possible accession of Turkey into EU and its impact on a number of collective identities as Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, vulnerable to Islamic fundamentalism, but also new breeds of nationalisms. This comparative study prompts apt ideas for EU coordinated national politics, fostering its cultural homogeneity and integrity in a global world of rising risks and new responsibilities.

BAA Market Investigation

BAA Market Investigation
Author: Great Britain: Competition Commission
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780117081550

This report confirms that BAA will be required to sell Stansted Airport followed by Edinburgh or Glasgow Airport. Following legal challenges to the CC's 2009 decision (ISBN 9780117064836) on the airports market, the Commission considered whether there were possible changes of circumstances that might lead to a different conclusion. The CC has, though, concluded that the sale of the airports is fully justified and that passengers and airlines would still benefit from greater competition with the airports under separate owner-ship, despite the current Government's decision to rule out new runways at any of the London airports. The CC has also concluded that the same timescale should remain for the sale of Stansted followed by sale of one of the Scottish airports. Stansted will be sold first as it serves the larger number of passengers and there will be a small overlap between the two sales periods.

Urban Stormwater and Flood Management

Urban Stormwater and Flood Management
Author: Veeriah Jegatheesan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030118185

This book brings together the experiences of engineers and scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom providing the current status on the management of stormwater and flooding in urban areas and suggesting ways forward. It forms a basis for the development of a framework for the implementation of integrated and optimised storm water management strategies and aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of the expanding urban water footprint. Among other topics it also features management styles of stormwater and flooding and describes biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to the management of stormwater and the mitigation of floods. Furthermore, it places an emphasis on sustainable storm water management measures. Population growth, urbanisation and climate change will pose significant challenges to engineers, scientists, medical practitioners, policy makers and practitioners of several other disciplines. If we consider environmental and water engineers, they will have to face challenges in designing smart and efficient water systems which are robust and resilient to overcome shrinking green spaces, increased urban heat islands, damages to natural waterways due to flooding caused by increased stormwater flow. This work provides valuable information for practitioners and students at both senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Public construction procurement trends 2009-2014

Public construction procurement trends 2009-2014
Author: Walter Menteth
Publisher: Project Compass CIC
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0993148107

A unique report evaluating the trends in UK public sector architectural design procurement for commissions that come within the remit of the European Union Directive 2004/14 and its threshold values over the five years 2009-14. Project Compass CIC captured over 12,000 OJEU notices, generating entities to cover all notice types in all procedures and under all instruments with frameworks, lots and their contents. This data has been interrogated and a range of concerns for the architectural profession in the UK, such as market access, evidenced. Key headlines show: That a very small percentage of practices are winning the greater majority and value of project work year on year The larger percentage of architects work is procured now through alternatively led multi discipline teams, engineers, surveyors, project and construction managers The large public sector organisations are aggregating projects under single notices, one example being an authority which grouped some 870 projects in a single OJEU Notice There is a vast tract of architectural work which is hidden i.e. it is not declared within notices save for the terminology 'design and execute', effectively laying open procurement to non professional routes Finally, it is clear from the pattern of notices that responsibility and the quality of the design of our built environment falls to non professionals, contractors and those whose driving interests are other than design standards and quality.

Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection

Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection
Author: Irene A. Kreis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199663416

Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection is a key handbook and course reader for all professionals in environmental public health. Emphasising the scoping and planning stages of a study in order to avoid common pitfalls, and includes discussions on the limitations of epidemiological studies, ethics and handling large datasets.

The Hirsel Excavations

The Hirsel Excavations
Author: Rosemary Cramp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 135119125X

"Excavations and surveys adjacent to Hirsel House, Coldstream, have revealed a remarkably detailed history of a proprietory church and its cemetery for a period when the parochial structure in Scotland was in course of development, and when very little is known about the fate of estate churches after they were donated to support the newly founded monasteries of the 12th century. The church is set in a landscape with evidence for settlement from the Neolithic to the establishment of Hirsel House, the seat of the Earl of Home. Here, in an estate the boundaries of which has changed very little since the Middle Ages, a small unicellular drystone structure developed into a well-built Romanesque church with a rare example of its bell founding structure intact. The subsequent history when the church was burnt, robbed of stone and used for domestic purposes, then finally destroyed and covered over in the late Middle Ages is graphically illustrated by the wealth of artefacts from the site. There are traces of other medieval buildings to the north of the site and the cemetery-one of the largest rural cemeteries in Scotland- provides an interesting range of burial modes, as well as, together with the environmental evidence from the site, an insight into the community which the church and cemetery served."