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SDC Reports & Papers
SDC Challenge Paper: Measuring what matters in light of the Stiglitz Report
| Date: | 29/03/2011 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Making Sustainable Lives Easier: A Priority for Governments, Business and Society
| Date: | 21/02/2011 |
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| Classification: | Economics Food |
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SDC Scotland Fourth Annual Assessment
| Date: | 07/12/2010 |
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| Classification: | Climate Change Economics Energy Governance Watchdog |
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SDC response to Economic Renewal Programme consultation
| Date: | 01/05/2010 |
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| Classification: | Economics SDC Response |
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Response to 'Generating Jobs In The Green Economy' enquiry
| Date: | 25/02/2010 |
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| Classification: | Economics SDC Response |
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Ymchwiliad i Greu Swyddi yn yr Economi Werdd
| Date: | 25/02/2010 |
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| Classification: | Economics SDC Response Welsh |
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Sustainable Development: Third Annual Assessment of progress by the Scottish Government
| Date: | 02/12/2009 |
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| Classification: | Transport Health Governance Energy Economics Climate Change |
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A Sustainable New Deal
| Date: | 07/04/2009 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Ffyniant Heb Dwf?
| Date: | 06/04/2009 |
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| Classification: | Economics Welsh |
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Prosperity without Growth? - Interview with Tim Jackson
| Date: | 31/03/2009 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Prosperity without Growth? - The transition to a sustainable economy
| Date: | 30/03/2009 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Consumption & Production Economics Governance |
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Prosperity without Growth? - Summary
| Date: | 26/03/2009 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Right Signals; Wrong Scale: Missed Opportunities in the Pre-Budget Report
| Date: | 01/12/2008 |
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| Classification: | SDC Response Economics |
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Economic growth and economic crisis - 30 September 2008
| Date: | 10/11/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
| Date: | 29/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Jonathan Rutherford - Well-being, economic growth and social recession
| Date: | 24/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Kate Soper - Exploring the relationship between growth and wellbeing
| Date: | 24/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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John O'Neill - Living Well Within Limits: Well-Being, Time and Sustainability
| Date: | 24/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Paul Ormerod - Is the concept of 'wellbeing' useful for policy-making?
| Date: | 24/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Miriam Kennet - Framework Paper
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Peter Victor - Managing without Growth
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Feasible Transition Paths towards a Renewable Energy Economy:
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Herman E Daly - A Steady-State Economy
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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The practicalities of implementing a lower growth economy - Miriam Kennet
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Scope of work package four: Policies for wellbeing and policies for growth
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Seminar summary - Growth and wellbeing
| Date: | 23/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Scope of work package three: Confronting Structure - achieving economic sustainability
| Date: | 22/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Seminar summary - Confronting Structure
| Date: | 22/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Derek Wall - Prosperity without growth, economics after capitalism
| Date: | 22/07/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Paul Ekins - Policies to Achieve Dematerialisation - Opinion piece
| Date: | 26/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Can China's economy be sustainable? - Steve Sorrell
| Date: | 26/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Scope of work package two: Economy 'Lite' - Can 'Decoupling' work?
| Date: | 25/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Policies to Achieve Dematerialisation - Paul Ekins
| Date: | 25/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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David Woodward: The Commodities Boom: Just Another Cycle, or Entering an Era of Scarcity?
| Date: | 25/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Can decoupling work? A Short Review - Frederic Bouder
| Date: | 25/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Guy S. Liu - Can China’s Economy be Sustainable? - from a perspective of environment
| Date: | 25/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Seminar summary - Economy 'lite' - Can 'decoupling' work?
| Date: | 24/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Ziauddin Sardar - Prosperity: A Transmodern Analysis
| Date: | 18/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Tim Kasser - Values and Prosperity
| Date: | 18/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Avner Offer - A Vision of Prosperity
| Date: | 18/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Hilde Rapp: Fulfillment and Prosperity: a Neo-Gandhian vision
| Date: | 10/06/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Scope of work package one: Visions of Prosperity
| Date: | 31/05/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Redefining Prosperity: Presentation from Prof Tim Kasser
| Date: | 31/05/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Redefining Prosperity: Presentation from Prof Avner Offer
| Date: | 31/05/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Visions of Prosperity - notes
| Date: | 04/02/2008 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Analysis of the Scottish Government’s Budget and Spending Review
| Date: | 03/12/2007 |
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| Classification: | SDC Response Governance Economics Business |
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Sustainable Development in Scotland 2007
| Date: | 04/09/2007 |
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| Classification: | Education Sustainable Communities Transport SD Strategy Review Housing and Regeneration Health Governance Food Energy Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change |
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| View details and download: | Details here |
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Sustainable Development in Scotland 2007 - Executive Summary
| Date: | 04/09/2007 |
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| Classification: | Education Sustainable Communities Transport Health Governance Food Energy Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change |
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Living Well - Within Limits
| Date: | 15/05/2007 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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| View details and download: | Details here |
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Healthy Sustainable Wales Toolkit
| Date: | 04/04/2007 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities Transport Health Governance Food Energy Economics Climate Change |
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Redefining Progress Consultation
| Date: | 26/03/2007 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities SD Strategy Review Economics |
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Financing Local Futures: Sustainability in practice
| Date: | 13/02/2007 |
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| Classification: | Local Government Economics |
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Financing Local Futures: Survey
| Date: | 13/02/2007 |
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| Classification: | Local Government Economics |
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Review of opportunities for improved carbon savings from spend on education buildings
| Date: | 19/06/2006 |
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| Classification: | Education Energy Economics |
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SDC Evidence to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee
| Date: | 02/05/2006 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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SDC Memo on Corporate Reporting
| Date: | 02/05/2006 |
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| Classification: | Economics Business |
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SDC Submission to The Eddington Transport Study
| Date: | 08/03/2006 |
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| Classification: | SDC Response Transport Economics |
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Nuclear Paper 4 - The Economics of Nuclear Power
| Date: | 05/03/2006 |
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| Classification: | Energy Economics Climate Change |
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SDC Submission to the Stern Review
| Date: | 25/01/2006 |
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| Classification: | SDC Response Energy Climate Change Economics |
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Sustainable development and UK faith groups: Two sides of the same coin?
| Date: | 27/10/2005 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities Faith and Sustainable Development Economics |
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Towards a Green Jobs Strategy: Opportunities for Business - consultation Response
| Date: | 01/09/2004 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities Economics Business |
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Policies for sustainable consumption (SDC report)
| Date: | 17/09/2003 |
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| Classification: | Housing and Regeneration Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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Redefining prosperity: resource productivity, economic growth and sustainable development (SDC report)
| Date: | 27/06/2003 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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Consultant Reports
Review of the economics of sustainable development: Final Report
| Date: | 26/07/2010 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Literature Review on air freight growth
| Date: | 20/09/2007 |
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| Classification: | Transport Economics |
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The Impact of Airports on the Regional Economies
| Date: | 19/09/2007 |
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| Classification: | Transport Economics |
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One Future - Different Paths The UK's Shared Framework for Sustainable Development
| Date: | 07/03/2005 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities Communications Transport SD Strategy Review Housing and Regeneration Governance Food Farming Energy Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change Business |
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Revision of the RDAs' Regional Economic Strategies and the integration of sustainable development
| Date: | 01/09/2002 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change |
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Speeches and articles
The Economics of Climate Change - Adair Turner
| Date: | 11/02/2007 |
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| Classification: | Climate Change Economics |
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Sustainable Consumption: The Retailing Paradox
| Date: | 01/05/2004 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Business |
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Annual Reports
Symud ymlaen - Adolygiad 2005 - 2006 [On the move-Welsh]
| Date: | 11/02/2006 |
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| Classification: | Transport Housing and Regeneration Health Energy Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change Business |
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On the Move: SDC Annual Review 2005
| Date: | 22/12/2005 |
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| Classification: | Local Government Education Sustainable Communities Transport Housing and Regeneration Health Governance Food Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change Business |
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Progress: SDC 2004 critique
| Date: | 01/02/2005 |
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| Classification: | Sustainable Communities Communications Transport Housing and Regeneration SD Strategy Review Health Governance Food Farming Energy Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Climate Change Business |
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Agenda 2003: Where next for Sustainable Development?
| Date: | 19/02/2003 |
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| Classification: | Climate Change Sustainable Communities Energy Economics Commission: internal |
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| View details and download: | Details here |
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Meeting Minutes
Agenda: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 07/09/2005 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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Minutes: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 07/09/2005 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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Policies for Sustainable Consumption - workshop report
| Date: | 05/01/2005 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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Delivering Well-Being - workshop report
| Date: | 05/01/2005 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production |
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| View details and download: | Details here |
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Agenda: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 09/09/2004 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Business |
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Minutes: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 09/09/2004 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Business |
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Agenda: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 10/06/2004 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Business |
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Minutes: Sustainable Consumption Roundtable
| Date: | 10/06/2004 |
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| Classification: | Economics Sustainable Consumption & Production Business |
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Other Commission
Northern Ireland Green New Deal
| Date: | 09/11/2009 |
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| Classification: | Transport Governance Energy Economics Business |
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Letter to Alistair Darling: Companies Bill
| Date: | 24/10/2006 |
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| Classification: | Economics |
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Capitalism As If The Matters: Earthscan Press Release
| Date: | 10/11/2005 |
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| Classification: | Communications Economics Climate Change Business |
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Other Internal Documents
SDC advice to Rt Hon. Oliver Letwin MP
| Date: | 15/09/2010 |
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| Classification: | Economics Governance SD Strategy Review |
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