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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the recent history of climate action planning at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), a public university with a long history of sustainability action and commitment. Items discussed include a partnership with Clean Air‐Cool Planet (CA‐CP) to produce a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory tool that adapted national and international inventory methodologies to the unique scale and character of a university community; involvement of administrators, faculty, staff and students in climate action planning, including to meet the requirements of the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC); and the role of climate action planning within a broader institutional goal of integrating sustainability across curricula, operations, research and engagement efforts.Design/methodology/approachBackground and historical information is shared in terms of best practices and lessons learned.FindingsSuccessful climate action planning includes campus‐wide stakeholder involvement, an institution‐wide commitment to sustainability, and careful planning and partnerships that tie into a higher education institution's educational mission and identity and that take into account the culture and sense of place of each institution.Practical implicationsThe paper contains lessons learned and best practices from which other institutions of higher education might learn.Originality/valueUNH, a recognized national leader in sustainability and climate protection, and CA‐CP developed one of the first emissions inventory tools for higher education in the USA. The tool has been adopted by more than 1,000 campuses and was adopted by the ACUPCC as the recommended tool for campuses not already participating in another GHG inventorying program. Instead of recreating the wheel, campuses may be able to learn from UNH and CA‐CP's climate planning experience and history.

The past decade has witnessed the dawn of globalisation, which is not only considered as advantageous, but also inevitable phenomenon by political and business leaders throughout the world. Irrespective of their size, location and economic status, countries around the world are influenced by the forces of globalisation as a result, the cities of these countries are trapped in a whirlwind of constant change, which affects all forms of urban life. Sydney is the largest city in Australia and a city with global significance. As a result of globalisation, dramatic changes are evident, bot in its built form as well as its socio-economic structure. These changes are expected to bring benefits and prosperity to the inhabitants, although these is no consensus on whether the benefits arising from globalisation can bring prosperity to all of them. In the light of this newly emerging situation, the NSW Department of Housing is looking at the communities living in public housing estates in Sydney afresh and rethinking ways to improve their lives. The objective is to give them a voice, remove obstacles that stop them using services such as education, health, training, leisure, and sports and build their capacity to face ups to new realities in a rapidly changing world.

Introduction. A significant number of preventable catastrophic injuries occur in secondary school athletics. Compliance to Emergency Action Plan (EAP) recommendations is not well documented. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify compliance to EAP recommendations, access to an athletic trainer (AT) and automated external defibrillator (AED), and current legislative mandates in school-based athletics. Methods. Electronic databases were searched to identify articles that met criteria for inclusion. Studies in English that focused on adoption, implementation, or compliance with EAPs or other national guidelines pertaining to athlete health were eligible for inclusion. Quality and validity were examined in each article and data were grouped based on outcome measures. Results. Of 12,906 studies, 21 met the criteria for inclusion and full text review. Nine studies demonstrated EAP adoption rates ranging from 55% - 100%. Five studies found that EAPs were rehearsed and reviewed annually in 18.2% - 91.6% of schools that have an EAP. At total of 9.9% of schools were compliant with all 12 National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) EAP guidelines. A total of 2.5% - 27.5% of schools followed NATA exertional heat illness guidelines and 50% - 81% of schools had access to an Athletic Trainer. In addition, 61% - 94.4% of schools had an AED available at their athletic venues. Four of 51 state high school athletic association member schools were required to meet best practice standards for EAP implementation, 7 of 51 for AED access, 8 of 51 for heat acclimation, and 3 of 51 for concussion management. Conclusions. There was a wide range of EAP adoption and a low rate of compliance to EAP guidelines in U.S. schools. Barriers to EAP adoption and compliance were not well documented and additional research should aim to identify impeding and facilitating factors.

Given the increasing rate of anthropogenic climate change and the resulting climate impacts that communities around the world will be coping with over the next century, it is becoming increasingly important that communities, cities, and regions begin to develop climate action plans that will assist them in coping with climate impacts. As a result, it is becoming evident that understanding how to effectively develop a climate action plan (CAP) and engage a community in the climate action planning process is a question at the forefront for many municipalities. This research utilized case study to examine the process the City of Imperial Beach engaged in to draft its CAP in an effort to understand the strengths the city was able to leverage and challenges the city faced. A chronological time-series was developed to assist in understanding the critical events that must take place in order to develop a CAP. Findings revealed that the CAP process in Imperial Beach was a years' long effort championed by city council members and pushed forward by city staff and community members. The central themes found in this case study were community engagement, collaboration, environmental justice, and political polarization. Finally, the findings of this case study were viewed through the lens of complexity leadership theory in order to draw conclusions about the leadership needs in the CAP process.

After the European Environmental Noise Directive prescribed noise maps and action plans, wide scientific literature and a consistent number of mitigation strategies emerged for road, railway, airport, and industrial noise. Unfortunately, very little attention has been paid to the noise produced by ports in their surroundings, even though there could be many areas affected by it. At present, more attention seems to be paid to noise produced underwater, mostly for military and security reasons and for its interference with wildlife, rather than airborne noise and its influence on human health. In the framework of a project aiming to shed more light on a topic so far under-investigated, this paper presents an acoustical characterization of different small vessels at various speeds that move around on a daily basis in every type of port, produced by means of short- and long-term measurements. The new information acquired was used to produce a map of noise generated by vessels moving in Livorno&rsquo ; s canals, which branch off in a densely inhabited area. The simulations were validated using long-term measurement. The number of citizens exposed was also estimated and used to calculate the number of highly annoyed people according to the recent curve for road traffic noise proposed by Guski et al. In order to prevent citizen exposure to noise and possible complaints about small boats, different scenarios and possible future situations such as various vessel speeds, limited flow, restricted areas for some categories, or new residential areas were studied.

AbstractPlanning approaches have long been of interest in assisting managers to respond to future constraints and opportunities. This paper offers an 'action' planning perspective, which seeks to assist managers in gaining membership commitment in the planning process.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Climate Action Planning -- 2: Creating a Framework for Community Action -- 3: Community Engagement and Collaboration -- 4: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting -- 5: Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities -- 6: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment -- 7: Strategies for Creating Resilient Communities -- 8: Pathways to Successful Implementation -- 9: Communities Leading the Way -- 10: Time to Act -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Additional Resources -- Notes -- Index -- IP Board of Directors.

AbstractEconomic research and frameworks, comprehensively synthesized in "The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review" (Dasgupta 2021), can do much to help stem global biodiversity loss. However, ingrained features of economics as a discipline often produce explanations and solutions for environmental problems that advantage wealthy and powerful entities in our global society rather than those who are poor or otherwise marginalized. This paper highlights two dimensions of economic research related to biodiversity where disciplinary bias can lead to ineffective and inequitable work: biodiversity valuation, and targeting causes of biodiversity loss to be changed. First, it shows how valuation approaches can best be used to inform actions that capture both use and non-use values and include the perspectives and needs of people who are typically marginalized in governance processes. Second, it discusses how global action to preserve biodiversity will be cost-ineffective and inequitable unless we take at least some steps to identify and correct actions taken by wealthy countries and large-scale producers that contribute much to the biodiversity crisis, rather than focusing policy primarily on the behavior of low-income individuals and households.

Das freiwillige Programm zur Lärmsanierung an bestehenden Schienenwegen der Eisenbahnen des Bundes von 1999 hat seine rechtliche Grundlage im Bundeshaushaltsgesetz. Die Lärmaktionsplanung von 2008 auf Grundlage der Richtlinie 2002/49/EG des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates über die Bewertung und Bekämpfung von Umgebungslärm ist im Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz verankert. Beide Regelwerke verfügen über unterschiedliche Parameter bei der Bewertung von Lärm. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung lösten die abweichenden Kriterien sowie die Folgenlosigkeit der Lärmaktionsplanung immer wieder Irritationen aus. Die Harmonisierung der Instrumente Lärmsanierungsprogramm und Lärmaktionsplanung war Gegenstand des Koalitionsvertrags von 2018 und aus fachlicher Sicht geboten.

Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr das Projekt "Harmonisierung der Lärmsanierung und Lärmaktionsplanung" initiiert, das vom Eisenbahn-Bundesamt geleitet und von einem Arbeitskreis mit Vertretungen von Bundesländern, Kommunalverbänden, der Wissenschaft, Fachverbänden und Bürgerinitiativen begleitet wurde. Im Ergebnis konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Bewertungsparameter der Lärmsanierung auf die der Lärmaktionsplanung umgestellt werden können, ohne dass sich die bisherigen Priorisierungen der Lärmsanierungsabschnitte zum Nachteil der Anliegerinnen und Anlieger verschieben würden. Voraussichtlich ab 2025 soll die Priorisierung der Lärmsanierungsabschnitte durch die DB Netz AG als Infrastrukturbetreiber des Schienennetzes des Bundes auf Basis der Ergebnisdaten der Lärmkartierung vorgenommen werden.