The Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan References and Acronyms 1
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) 2004, Living Planet Report
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RS2010, Regional Strategy for England’s Northwest (Part 1), Northwest Regional Development Agency, 2010
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EcoNW towards a one planet region, Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology (CURE) 2006
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Environmental Considerations in Achieving Sustainable Economic Growth (ECOSEG) (2008)
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REEIO model (the data on water use is the least robust of the environmental datasets within REEIO and the input data has not been significantly updated since the original REEIO data collection exercise in 1998/99.
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Costs of Environmental Infrastructure Needs to Meet the North West Regional Spatial Strategy, Environment Agency
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Review of Water Use in Industry and Commerce, Envirowise N.B. statistics referenced exclude utilities, agriculture, fish farming, Mfr of coke & petroleum products
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Construction Statistics Annual 2008 edition
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Strategy for Sustainable Construction, Department of Business Innovation and Skills (2008)
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Northwest of England Commercial and Industrial Waste Survey: Compiled for Environment Agency (2010); Study to fill the evidence gaps for construction, demolition and excavation waste streams in the Northwest region of England, Smithgore, (2007) and; Commercial and Industrial Waste Survey (2003)
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A Framework for Pro-environmental behaviours, Defra 2008
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Impact of Public Procurement on the Northwest, CRED, University of Cumbria, October 2008
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data from ENWORKS
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data from Envirolink
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Goldman Sachs - "Top Five Risks" conference.
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Quantification of the business benefits of resource efficiency: A research report completed for Defra, October 2007. Oakdene Hollins
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Resource Efficiency Survey 2009 for ENWORKS/NWDA (BMG Research) August 2009
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Nationally, regionally and sub-regionally significant waste management facilities (2008)
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Study to fill evidence gaps for Commercial and Industrial waste streams in the Northwest region of England, Urban Mines (2007)
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Study to fill evidence gaps for Commercial and Industrial waste streams in the Northwest region of England, Urban Mines (2007)
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Local Government Sustainable Procurement Strategy Centre of Excellence NE, Improvement and Development Agency and Local Government Association (2007
Acronyms •
BREEAM = The Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method - the leading environmental assessment method for buildings that sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and a building's environmental performance.
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CEEQUAL = the accepted UK industry scheme for assessing environmental and sustainability performance in civil engineering and public realm projects (Civil Engineering Environmental Quality and Assessment Award Scheme).
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Eco-footprint = An ecological footprint is measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems and natural resources. The concept of ecological footprint is based on the assumption that anything that consumes items or energy needs a certain amount of land, water and other natural resources to live the way it is. That means the more active and consuming someone or something is, the larger the ecological footprint for him, her, or it.
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GVA = Gross value added. This is used to measure the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector in the United Kingdom. It is used in the estimation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is a key indicator of the state of the whole economy.