environmental SCIENTIST | The Energy Trilemma | February 2013
In 1997, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Kyoto Protocol, the international act binding nations around the world to reducing carbon...
environmental SCIENTIST | Reading the landscape: heritage and the environment | December 2013
When one mentions archaeology to a non-archaeologist, the discussion will invariably move rapidly to Time Team, and “that chap with the long hair”. That is archaeology for most ...
environmental SCIENTIST | UK regulation: endless paperwork or essential protection | November 2013
In July 2012, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) initiated the Smarter Environmental Regulation Review (SERR) to take a cross-...
environmental SCIENTIST | The EU - Red Tape or Green Governance? | August 2013
We need more Europe, not less” Angela Merkel proclaimed in 2012 to the annoyance of eurosceptics. She was speaking in the context of the global financial crisis, but a parallel...
environmental SCIENTIST | Air Quality - should we have achieved more? | April 2013
Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!”
I can still remember the brutal satire of the Tom Lehrer song ‘Pollution’1 in the 1960s. I guess that was what got me...
As part of the IES' ongoing exploration of the use of Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act we asked Robin Graham, Contaminated Land Officer from South Ribble Borough Council to share his opinions of the legislation. This article is a summary of that discussion.
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