The simplification of planning legislation

This paper describes a proposal to extend the scope of planning permission in Great Britain so as to include virtually any works to listed buildings and scheduled monuments, demolition in a conservation area, and advertising. That would enable the scrapping of the separate statutory codes governing listed building consent, conservation area consent, scheduled monument consent, and consent under the Advertisements Regulations

The Health impact of chemical exposures during the Gulf War: a research planning conference

On February 28 through March 2, 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) brought together scientists, clinicians, veterans, veterans\ue2\u20ac\u2122 service organizations, Congressional staff, and other interested parties to discuss and make recommendations regarding the direction of future research on undiagnosed illnesses among Gulf War veterans and their links with multiple chemical and environmental exposures. The format for the conference included plenary sessions, concurrent workgroups, and a veterans\ue2\u20ac\u2122 forum. The plenary sessions were meant to provide background information and to stimulate dialog on research questions. The plenary sessions included an overview of research findings regarding the health impact of the Gulf War, a panel discussion of the experience of Gulf War veterans, a series of presentations on the possible health outcomes of low-level chemical exposures focusing on nervous system, immune system, and pulmonary system outcomes, a series of panel discussions on research and clinical findings regarding multiple chemical sensitivity among Gulf War veterans and civilian populations, a series of presentations on possible mechanisms of action of chemical exposures, and a panel discussion on methodological considerations in studying the health impact of chemical exposures during the Gulf War. The concurrent workgroups were asked to develop research recommendations in four areas: pathophysiology, etiology, and mechanisms of action; assessment and diagnosis of illnesses; treatment; and prevention of illnesses in future deployments. Each workgroup was asked to develop research recommendations that addressed specific issues. For the pathophysiology workgroup, these issues included synergistic and subclinical effects of chemicals, genetic susceptibility, biomarkers of susceptibility and exposure, and appropriate study methods. The assessment and diagnosis workgroup was asked to focus on case definition, overlap of conditions, the role of chronic multi-system conditions, biomarkers of illness, optimal methods for assessment and diagnosis, and validation of assessment approaches. The treatment workgroup was asked to focus on appropriate treatment paradigms, rehabilitation approaches, health care opportunities, education of physicians, and appropriate study methods. The prevention workgroup was asked to focus on health education and risk communication, approaches to environmental assessment, biomonitoring, and health preparedness. The workgroups were free to use whatever approach they found useful for developing research recommendations. In some cases there was considerable disagreement among workgroup members on the direction of the recommendations. Thus, the final recommendations of the workgroups were not necessarily endorsed by all workgroup members. This report summarizes the outcome of each of the four workgroup sessions. Chapters 2 - 5 present the recommendations as developed by the workgroups. Although the workgroups were asked to focus on research recommendations, some recommendations reflect clinical care, administrative, or policy issues. No attempt was made to filter non-research recommendations from this report. Chapter 6 provides a discussion of the workgroup deliberations and attempts to place the recommendations in the context of current Gulf War research activities. The recommendations developed at this conference represent the deliberations of the workgroup participants and do not necessarily imply endorsement by the veteran or scientific community as a whole or by the federal government. While some of the recommendations could be implemented in the short-term, many of the recommendations reflect long-term goals requiring significant restructuring of current systems and are unlikely to be easily implemented, especially in the time frame requested by Gulf War veterans. Some of the recommendations may not be feasible, given current federal regulations. Other recommendations reflect initiatives that have already been instituted by federal agencies responsible for the care of veterans.sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in coordination with other offices and agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Public Health and Science, DHHS ; National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 27, 2001).Mode of access: Internet.Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-42)

SPI-B/EMG : MHCLG Housing Impacts Paper - 10 September 2020

SPI-B/EMG paper prepared in response to a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) commission for advice on the role of housing in transmission. It was considered at SAGE 56 on 10 September 2020. It should be viewed in context: the paper was the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. The picture is developing rapidly and, as new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly. Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded and the author’s opinion or conclusion may since have developed. These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journal

Description of indicators and project activities and outputs to 1998

This document describes the indicators, activities and outputs of the AEI Project as specified by the Environmental Indicator Working Group of AAFC in July 1995. The work plans provide a basis for managing activities within the project and for preparing and scheduling deliverables. The work plan will evolve as required to reflect changing circumstances, requirements and opportunities regarding the development of AEIs, and will be updated periodically

Project work plan for 1996-1997

This document presents the project work plan for the fiscal-year 1996-97. This work plan represents revisions to the original project work plan completed in 1995 and is based on the results of the AEI Project departmental workshop held on 18-19 June 1996 and the 20-21 June 1996 meeting of the Agri-Environmental Project Advisory Committee. The Plan covers the main areas of activity in 1996-97 but does not profile these activities in detail

Workshop report for the review and validation of the Nigeria Gender Action Plan

In implementing the Paris Agreement and Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Conference of Parties (COP23), adopted a Gender Action Plan, which would be integrated into Parties Climate Action i.e. the Paris Agreement. For a more holistic climate action, it is important that Nigeria has a unified voice on gender and climate change issues. To domesticate the Gender Action Plan, there is a need to develop a National Gender Action Plan (GAP) that takes into consideration our national circumstances. This document would serve as a guide in mainstreaming gender into climate change plans and programs. A draft GAP was developed in 2016 and a workshop for the Review and Validation of Nigeria’s Climate Change Gender Action Plan held on the 30th November, 2018

Toward a warmer Arctic Ocean: Spreading of the early 21st century Atlantic Water warm anomaly along the Eurasian Basin margins

We document through the analysis of 2002–2005 observational data the recent Atlantic Water (AW) warming along the Siberian continental margin due to several AW warm impulses that penetrated into the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait in 1999–2000. The AW temperature record from our long-term monitoring site in the northern Laptev Sea shows several events of rapid AW temperature increase totaling 0.8°C in February–August 2004. We hypothesize the along-margin spreading of this warmer anomaly has disrupted the downstream thermal equilibrium of the late 1990s to earlier 2000s. The anomaly mean velocity of 2.4–2.5 ± 0.2 cm/s was obtained on the basis of travel time required between the northern Laptev Sea and two anomaly fronts delineated over the Eurasian flank of the Lomonosov Ridge by comparing the 2005 snapshot along-margin data with the AW pre-1990 mean. The magnitude of delineated anomalies exceeds the level of pre-1990 mean along-margin cooling and rises above the level of noise attributed to shifting of the AW jet across the basin margins. The anomaly mean velocity estimation is confirmed by comparing mooring-derived AW temperature time series from 2002 to 2005 with the downstream along-margin AW temperature distribution from 2005. Our mooring current meter data corroborate these estimations

Diatom-inferred salinity records from the Arctic Siverian margin: Implications for fluvial runoff patterns during the Holocene

Diatom assemblages were employed to study temporal changes of Siberian river runoff on the Laptev Sea shelf. Using a correlation between freshwater diatoms (%) in core-top sediments and summer surface water salinities from the inner Kara Sea, salinity conditions were reconstructed for a site northeast of the Lena River Delta (present water depth 32 m) since 9 calendar years (cal) ka. The reconstruction indicate a strong, near-coastal, and river-influenced environment at the site until about 8.6 cal ka. Corroborated by comparison with other proxy records from further to the east, surface salinities increased from 9 to 14 until about 7.4 cal ka, owing to ongoing global sea level rise and synchronous southward shift of the coastline. Although riverine water became less influential at the site since then, salinities still varied between 12.5 and 15, particularly during the last 3.5 kyr. These more recent salinity fluctuations agree well with reconstructions from just north of the Lena Delta, emphasizing the strong linkage between shelf hydrography and riverine discharge patterns in Arctic Siberia

Health impact of chemical exposures during the Gulf War

The purpose of this document is to provide background information to participants in the upcoming conference.sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; in coordination with Office of Public Health and Science (Department of Health and Human Services), National Institutes of Health, and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ; document prepared by Peter McClure ... [et al.].Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 28, 2005)."Submitted to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Veteran's Health Activity Working Group."Mode of access: Internet.Includes bibliographical references