Built Environment

Five ways to use landscape to teach, heal and regenerate

The Landscape Institute has announced the shortlist for this year’s Landscape Institute Awards. Five of the 43 shortlisted projects are featured on the following pages.

Built Environment Communities Good Local Economics

Five ideas for creating ‘good’ rural economies

Built Environment

Turning Scotland ‘green’

Built Environment

Public health can do more to tackle climate change

Built Environment Communities

Hold big banks to account on fossil fuels

Built Environment Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

We need a new model of economic growth

Built Environment Communities

Bristol’s vision of a new energy system

Built Environment Local Government

Ideas for change: Decentralising power

Built Environment Housing Local Government

The opportunity of solar for housing associations and councils

Being a practitioner it’s healthy to start with realism. Budgets are stretched, cutbacks enforced, while procurement rules are toughened at local authority level. Add to this the fact that solar photovoltaic is still seen as a sustainability issue, the domain of the sustainability officer, not the financial director.