Examining Affordability of Houses in Cumbria using StreetValue and Paycheck PDF
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Allerdale Borough Council
Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007
This is the latest version of The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), based on the premise that deprivation is made up of separate dimensions, or 'domains' of deprivation. Within the IMD, these domains are made up of a number of indicators which cover aspects of deprivation as comprehensively as possible. The IMD 2007 contains seven domains of deprivation, each of which is now outlined.
Income Deprivation Domain
The Income domain measures people who are on a low income. Income deprivation is one of the most important aspects of deprivation. The indicators in this domain are made up of the counts of people in families in receipt of means tested benefits.
Employment Deprivation Domain
This domain measures employment deprivation conceptualised as involuntary exclusion of the working age population from the world of work.
Health Deprivation and Disability Domain
This domain identifies areas with relatively high rates of people who die prematurely or whose quality of life is impaired by poor healthy or who are disabled, across the whole population.
Education, Skills and Training Deprivation Domain
This domain captures the extent of deprivation in terms of education, skills and training in a local area. The indicators fall into two sub-domains: one relating to education deprivation for children / young people in the area and one relating to lack of skills and qualifications among the working age adult population.
Barriers to Housing and Services Domain
The purpose of this domain is to measure barriers to housing and key local services. The indicators fall into two sub-domains: 'geographical barriers' and 'wider barriers' which also includes issues relating to access to housing, such as affordability
Crime Domain
This domain measures the incidence of recorded crime for four major crime themes, representing the occurrence of personal and material victimisation at a small area level.
The Living Environment Deprivation Domain
This domain focuses on deprivation with respect to the characteristics of the living environment. It comprises two sub-domains: the 'indoors' living environment which measures the quality of housing, and the 'outdoors' living environment which contains two measures about air quality and road traffic accidents.
Outputs
Outputs for the IMD 2007 are given at the level of Super Output Area (SOA). SOAs are geographically defined areas that have been designed for the collection and publication of small area statistics.
To enable comparisons to be made between the level of deprivation in different SOAs, each one has been ascribed an overall national rank for 2007, determined by the aggregation of the 7 domains of deprivation outlined above. There are 32,482 SOAs in England, with the most deprived given a rank of 1 and the least deprived ward given a rank of 32,482. The overall rank of an SOA can as such be used to show how it compares to all the other SOAs in the country as regards to level of deprivation.
Allerdale Borough Council - Index of Multiple Deprivation
Friday, 2 May 2008
NWRA :: The Region
The North West of England, has an area of 14165 square kilometres and with 6.9 million inhabitants has the second largest population of the United Kingdom's regions and is three times more densely populated than the European average. Our economy is larger than five European member states - Republic of Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece.
The North West has 5 sub-regions:
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Merseyside
- Lancashire
NWRA :: The Region
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Migration from new EU countries, in figures
Every local authority in the UK has seen migration from the eight Eastern European countries that joined the EU in May 2004, a report from the Institute of Public Policy Research has revealed.
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Defra UK; LEADER+
LEADER+ is a European Community Initiative for assisting rural communities in improving the quality of life and economic prosperity in their local area. Twenty five areas in England benefit from the funding.
Defra UK; LEADER+
Excellent Development - Education
Excellent Development's Sustainable Farming & Development Resource Pack comprises two original films and supporting materials illustrating our community development work.
In this section you can watch our sustainable farming and development films and download most of the supporting materials online. You can also order your own copy of the resource pack or find out how to sign up to our teachers e-newsletter, to keep you up-to-date with the latest news. The curriculum page goes into more detail about where our work fits into the KS3 and GCSE curriculum.
You can also read feedback and comments received from teachers about the resource pack, or submit your own feedback.
Excellent Development - Education
World food crisis turns rice into gold - Times Online
All over the country, Thais are returning to the paddies like prospectors chasing gold. After a global surge in the price of grain, a gruelling, unglamorous occupation has become highly lucrative. The economic opportunities have also brought risks as farmers get deeper into debt, fight over scarce water resources and are forced to defend their fields from a new breed of rice bandit.
World food crisis turns rice into gold - Times Online
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
AidsinAfrica.net - HIV AIDS Epidemic Map
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to over 70% of the total world HIV-positive population. In the southernmost region we find countries with HIV prevalence rates of over 30%, the highest in the world. There is no overriding explanation for why HIV has exploded in some areas and not others. We tend to draw over-simplistic correlations between HIV/AIDS and demographics such as wealth, literacy, or fertility. This map allows you to view HIV prevalence along with other forms of demographic data to illustrate that many of these generalizations do not hold true.
Identifying what causes HIV to spread is a complicated and growing area of research. Specific factors that seem to play a role include patterns of sexual networking, levels of condom use with different partners, incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases, population mobility, and societal make-up. While over 90% of the world's HIV+ population live in poorer developing countries, some of the more wealthy countries, such as Botswana and South Africa, have higher HIV rates. This is in part because wealth facilitates population mobility, therefore increasing the spread of HIV.
AidsinAfrica.net - HIV AIDS Epidemic Map
Monday, 21 April 2008
Africa plans biggest dam project
A plan to build the largest and most powerful hydroelectric dam in the world is being discussed in London.Financiers and African politicians will look at how to finance the $80bn (£40bn) cost of the Grand Inga project. The plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo would generate twice as much energy as China's Three Gorges dam.
BBC NEWS | Business | Africa plans biggest dam project
IRIN | In-depth | Tomorrow’s Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation | GLOBAL: Publication
Chapter 1: overview: tomorrow's crises today city of darkness/ city of light
Chapter 2: DELHI i: drinking the city dry water insecurity
Chapter 3: LAGOS: crisis of management governance and planning
Chapter 4: DHAKA: reaping the whirlwind vulnerability to natural disasters
Chapter 5: ADDIS: putting food on the table food insecurity
Chapter 6: RIO: fighting for the favelas human insecurity
Chapter 7: JAKARTA: battling to breathe pollution control
Chapter 8: CAIRO: sheltering the urban poor The housing crisis
Chapter 9: EL ALTO: labouring to survive employment insecurity
Chapter 10: LUANDA: living in the Hot Zone health and sanitation
Chapter 11: ULAANBATAR: painful transitions cultural change
IRIN | In-depth | Tomorrow’s Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation | GLOBAL: Publication
The Happy Planet Index
The Happy Planet Index is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered.
It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which country by country, people live long and happy lives.
The Happy Planet Index
Change in farming can feed world - report
Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages, escalating prices and growing environmental problems.
Bio-energy The report says biofuels compete for land and water with food crops and are inefficient. They can cause deforestation and damage soils and water.
Biotechnology The use of GM crops, where the technology is not contained, is contentious, the UN says. Data on some crops indicate highly variable yield gains in some places and declines in others.
Climate change While modest temperature rises may increase food yields in some areas, a general warming risks damaging all regions of the globe. There will be serious potential for conflict over habitable land.
Trade and markets
Subsidies distort the use of resources and benefit industrialised nations at the expense of developing countries.
Change in farming can feed world - report | Environment | The Guardian
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Monday, 14 April 2008
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania - Encyclopedia of Earth
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (2°30'-3°30'S, 34°50'-35°55'E) is a World Heritage Site located 180 kilometers (km) west of Arusha in the far north of Tanzania, adjoining the south-eastern edge of Serengeti National Park. An immense concentration of wild animals live in the huge and perfect crater of Ngorongoro. It is home to a small relict population of black rhinoceros and some 25,000 other large animals, largely ungulates, alongside the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa. Nearby are lake-filled Empakaai crater and the active volcano of Oldonyo Lenga. Excavations carried out in the Olduvai Gorge to the west, resulted in discoveries which have made the area one of the most important in the world for research on the evolution of the human species.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania - Encyclopedia of Earth
Vertical farming - Encyclopedia of Earth
What is proposed here that differs radically from what now exists is to scale up the concept of indoor farming, in which a wide variety of produce is harvested in quantity enough to sustain even the largest of cities without significantly relying on resources beyond the city limits. Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and other large farm animals seem to fall well outside the paradigm of urban farming. However, raising a wide variety of fowl and pigs are well within the capabilities of indoor farming. It has been estimated that it will require approximately 300 square feet of intensively farmed indoor space to produce enough food to support a single individual living in an extraterrestrial environment (e.g., on a space station or a colony on the moon or Mars). Working within the framework of these calculations, one vertical farm with an architectural footprint of one square city block and rising up to 30 stories (approximately 3 million square feet) could provide enough nutrition (2,000 calories/day/person) to comfortably accommodate the needs of 50,000 people employing technologies currently available. Constructing the ideal vertical farm with a far greater yield per square foot will require additional research in many areas – hydrobiology, engineering, industrial microbiology, plant and animal genetics, architecture and design, public health, waste management, physics, and urban planning, to name but a few. The vertical farm is a theoretical construct whose time has arrived, for to fail to produce them in quantity for the world at-large in the near future will surely exacerbate the race for the limited amount of remaining natural resources of an already stressed out planet, creating an intolerable social climate
Vertical farming - Encyclopedia of Earth
The other global crisis: rush to biofuels is driving up price of food - World Politics, World - The Independent
The world's most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world's poorest people.
The other global crisis: rush to biofuels is driving up price of food - World Politics, World - The Independent
Global rice supply: Video snapshots
From Ghana in west Africa to the west coast of the US, BBC correspondents around the world examine the impact of steep rises in the price of rice.
BBC NEWS | Business | Global rice supply: Video snapshots
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