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Water adaptation in Africa, April 2011
This POSTnote discusses adapting water resource management to climate change in Africa.
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Unconventional gas, April 2011
This POSTnote examines the potential for unconventional gas exploitation in the UK, the regulatory regimes covering such activity, and the issues surrounding the extraction and use of the gas.
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Future electricity networks, February 2011
This POSTnote examines the possibilities and challenges for electricity network development.
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Biodiversity offsetting, January 2011
This POSTnote summarises biodiversity offsetting and examines opportunities and risks of offsets within a UK context.
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Living with environmental limits, January 2011
This POSTnote summarises a longer POST report on environ-mental limits, which sets out the challenges to achieving this aim, whilst considering the complex trade-offs between social, economic and environ-mental objectives. O
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Housing and health, January 2011
This POSTnote looks at the impact of poor housing on health and examines the implications for housing policy.
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UK indoor air quality, November 2010
This POSTnote describes sources of indoor air pollution, the evidence for adverse effects on human health and outlines possible policy responses.
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Biofortification of foods, November 2010
This POSTnote describes developments in biofortification, examines its potential impact, and the implications for policy makers in the UK and abroad.
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Drug pricing, October 2010
This POSTnote outlines current drug pricing policy and examines other options to evaluate pricing, including "value-based" pricing.
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Resilience of UK infrastructure
This POSTnote outlines efforts to improve the resilience of infrastructure to the risks of natural hazards and any effects of future climate change.
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Electric vehicles
This POSTnote focuses on the extent to which EVs could reduce carbon emissions and examines issues that would surround widespread uptake.
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Sea level rise, September 2010
This POSTnote summerizes the causes of sea level rise, and the uncertainties in and the consequences for UK climate change adaptation.
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Biochar, July 2010
This POSTnote examines the current state of research into the production of biochar, the feasibility of using it to combat climate change, and any unintended consequences that may result.
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Space weather, July 2010
This POSTnote examines changes in the near-Earth space environment, caused by varying conditions within the Sun's atmosphere, which can affect space- and ground-based technological systems and cause harm to human health.
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EU Science and Technology Funding, June 2010
This POST note explains The EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) and current developments.
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