White paper

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Lessons from the UK on Urgency and Legitimacy in Energy Policymaking

Abstract: This chapter uses the recent history of UK energy policymaking to illustrate wider themes in this book. In the face of the urgency of climate change, the central question for policymaking is how to combine radical action with strengthened legitimacy and consent. The UK case shows how it may be possible to start travelling along this difficult road, but that subsequently it is easy to over-emphasise urgency at the expense of legitimacy and thus risk overall failure.

Campus violence white paper.

Abstract: (2007). Campus Violence White Paper. Journal of American College Health: Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 304-319.

Introduction: a critical analysis of the concept of a learning society

Abstract: This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC's) Learning Society Programme in the United Kingdom (UK). The program examined the ways in which lifelong learning can contribute to the development of knowledge and skills for employment and in other areas of adult life. The author describes the ESRC program and outlines the contents of the two volume report resulting from the work. He provides a critical analysis of the learning society concept which presents ten models of a learning society. The models are used as a conceptual framework with which to evaluate current government policy on lifelong learning, in particular the 1999 White Paper, 'Learning to succeed' (indexed at TD/IRD 88.176).

Defining and measuring traffic data quality: White paper on recommended approaches

Abstract: Recent research and analyses have identified several issues about the quality of traffic data available from intelligent transportation systems for transportation operations, planning, or other functions. FHWA contracted with Battelle, the Texas Transportation Institute, and Cambridge Systematics to develop an action plan to help stakeholders address traffic data quality issues. The project team developed a series of three white papers that addressed traffic data quality issues, and regional stakeholder workshops were held in Columbus, Ohio, and Salt Lake City, Utah, to critique the white papers and gather input for the traffic data quality action plan. Recommendations are provided for defining and measuring traffic data quality. Data quality is defined as "the fitness of data for all purposes that require it. Measuring data quality requires an understanding of all intended purposes for that data." Six key data quality measures are recommended: accuracy, completeness, validity, timeliness, coverage, and a...

Motivating Carbon Reduction in the UK: the role of local government as an agent of social change

Abstract: In UK policy circles, there is a growing recognition that mediating the interface between policy making and the public through local government led initiatives is one way through which to provide a practicable means to deliver carbon reduction at an individual, household, and community level. Following on from the aims of Local Agenda 21 in creating the space for a more bottom–up policy infrastructure, the 2007 UK Energy White Paper is one of the latest political statements to highlight the way in which reaching UK targets on CO2 emissions will continue to involve a greater local response to climate change. This emphasis was given further weight through the introduction of a new local performance framework in April 2008. This new set of 198 national performance indicators (PIs) for local government and other local bodies are now the only PIs which Central Government will use to assess local government performance. Importantly, they include three PIs that specifically cover the issue of climate change and ...