QUALITY OF LIFE

Facts and views – 2015 Edition

JUNE 2015

a cura di Eurostat

 

Quality of life in Europe – facts and views presents different aspects of people’s well-being combining for the first time objective indicators with subjective evaluation of individuals’ situations and covering various aspects of quality of life. The indicators are analysed together with different elements affecting quality of life such as educational level, activity, health status or family and financial situation. The emphasis in this publication has been placed on the data collected through the 2013 ad-hoc module on subjective well-being, which was added to the statistics on income and living…

RENEWABLE ENERGY AND JOBS

Annual review 2015

MARCH 2015

a cura di IRENA | International Renewable Energy Agency

 

IRENA estimates that renewable energy employed 7.7 million people, directly or indirectly, around the world in 2014 (excluding large hydropower). This is an 18% increase from the number reported last year.
In addition, IRENA conducted the first-ever global estimate of large hydropower employment, showing approximately 1.5 million direct jobs in the sector.
This second edition of the Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review presents the status of renewable energy employment, both by technology and in selected countries. The table at the end of this report summarises the findings across…

STATE AND OUTLOOK 2015

SOER 2015 – Executive Summary

FEBRUARY 2015

a cura di European Environment Agency

 

In 2015, Europe stands roughly halfway between the initiation of EU environmental policy in the early 1970s and the EU’s 2050 vision of ‘living well within the limits of the planet’ . Underlying this vision is a recognition that Europe’s economic prosperity and well-being is intrinsically linked to its natural environment — from fertile soils to clean air and water.
Looking back on the last 40 years, implementation of environment and climate policies has delivered substantial benefits for the functioning of Europe’s ecosystems and for the health and living standards…

WIND IN POWER

2014 European statistics

FEBRUARY 2015

a cura di EWEA | European Wind Energy Association

 

11,791.4 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13.1bn and €18.7bn) was installed in the EU during 2014, an increase of 3.8% compared to 2013 annual installations.
Wind power is the generating technology with the highest rate for new installations in 2014, accounting for 43.7% of total 2014 power capacity installations, 12 percentage points higher than during the previous year.
Renewable power installations accounted for 79.1% of new installations during 2014: 21.3 GW of a total 26.9 GW of new power capacity, up from 72% the previous year.
There is now 128.8…

URBANISTICA PRIZE 2014

Supplement of URBANISTICA 153

NOVEMBER 2014

edited by Valentina Cosmi

 

The winning projects are evidence of the direction in which it moves Italian planning. Almost everyone, in fact, bee concerned with the emerging issues of urban regeneration, such as the reuse of industrial areas, rail and port abandoned, intervention on public spaces of historic cities, the new policies of social inclusion.

The Italian planning is becoming less engaged with plans to control the expansion or large transformation projects of the city.The long economic and finantial crisis forced it to be more selective and to make it compatible with a strategic vision that…

ATTITUDES OF EUROPEANS TOWARDS WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

Conducted by TNS Political & Social at the request of the European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment

JUNE 2014

co-ordinated by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication

 

Resource efficiency and waste management are key elements of EU environmental policy and the Europe 2020 strategy. It is essential to get a clear picture of citizens’ attitudes on these topics, throughout all Member States, in order to better guide policy making in these fields.
This survey seeks to understand citizens’ perceptions, attitudes and practices related to efficient use of resources, generation and management of waste, as well as elements of the so-called “circular economy” (including…

PROGRESS ON RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND DECOUPLING IN THE EU-27

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY | TECHNICAL REPORT

LUGLIO 2014

Messages emerging from environmentally extended input-output analysis with relevance to the Resource Efficiency Roadmap and the 7EA.

《This short report, consisting of a series of key messages, was prepared to illustrate ways in which input-output-based analysis can support policy makers in their decisions and choices. It follows up on the 2013 EEA report on environmental pressures from European consumption and production which describes the methodology of environmentally extended input-output analysis, illustrated with some country examples … 》

URBAN RESILIENCE: LIFE+ PROJECTS AND EUROPEAN POLICIES

LIFE | PLATFORM MEETING

APRIL 2014

Summary report.

《Urban resilience can be defined as the ability of an urban territory/community exposed to hazards such as Climate Change, disaster, economic and social poverty, to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from these. A resilient approach addresses the following stakes:
– Reduction of the environmental impacts of the cities/territories (pollution/wastes)
– Mitigation/Adaptation to climate change
– Answer to economic and social issues … 》

MAPPING SMART CITIES IN THE EU

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT | COMMISSION ON INDUSTRY, RESEARCH AND ENERGY

JANUARY 2014

Directorate general for internal policies – Policy Department A: Economic and scientific Policy

 

《This report was commissioned to provide background information and advice on Smart Cities in the European Union (EU) and to explain how existing mechanisms perform. In exploring this, a working definition of a Smart City is established and the cities fitting this definition across the Member States are mapped. An analysis of the objectives and Europe 2020 targets of Smart City initiatives finds that despite their early stage of development, Smart City objectives should be more explicit, well defined and clearly aligned to city development, innovation plans…

INCEPTION REPORT: STUDY ON PROMOTING MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN SUPPORT OF EUROPE 2020

EUROPEAN COMMISSION | Regional and Urban Policy

JULY 2014

a cura di: Kai Böhme, Sabine Zillmer, Sofie Jæger & Frank Holstein (Spatial Foresight) Lisa Hörnström, Alex Dubois & Stefanie Lange-Scherbenske (Nordregio)

《The aim of this study on promoting multi-level governance in support of Europe 2020 is to generate lessons learned from existing experience and to stimulate the learning and transfer between regions. The study focuses on both the analysis and facilitation of transfer processes.
This is a revised version of the Inception Report of the DG Regio study on promoting multilevel governance in support of Europe 2020,