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Local Agenda 21 Glossary
106 Agreement
Agreement with developer to provide infrastructure
Aarhus Convention
Access to information, public participation in decision making and access to environmental matters www.unece.org/env/pp/mop1.htm
Adult Cycle Training
Run by Travelwise/ SBC LA21
ALGE
Association of Local Government Ecologists
AMPHION
Advanced Manufacture and Procurment for Housing Inovation
Sustainable Housing. Pre fab, cost effective and energy efficient timber framed houses
AONB - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Designated due to Its outstanding landscape value
AWM Advantage West Midlands
Regional Development Agency
BAP Biodiversity Action Plan
BAPs identify species and habitats which are at risk and establish mechanisms to protect them. There is a UK BAP and a Staffordshire BAP and the Biodiversity Strategy for Stafford Borough dovetails with these.
BARS
Biodiversity Action Reporting System
National system for monitoring and reporting BAP information
Biodiversity
Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on our planet. This includes the whole range of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibian, fish, invertebrates, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. Biodiversity also includes the habitats that support these species.
Biodiversity Convention
In June 1992, the 'Earth Summit' was held in Rio de Janeiro. Over 150 countries, including the UK, signed the Convention on Biological Diversity. The main aim of the Convention was to commit governments to conserve and enhance biodiversity
BVPI
Best Value Performance Indicator
CAST
Centre for Alternative and Sustainable Transport
CEE
Council for Environmental Education
Involved in Growing Schools
CFC
Chloroflrocarbon
React in with UV to break down Ozone layer
CHP
Combined Heat and Power
CIEH
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
CITES
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
CLIP
Central - Local Information Partnership Project
Sustainable Development Task Force as part of the Local Sustainability/ Quality of Life Indicators Project
CNG
Compresed Natural Gas
Type of cleaner vehicle fuel - usually heavy goods vehicles
Coppicing
The traditional form of management of much of the broadleaved woodland in the UK. It involves cutting down trees and shrubs near to ground level, allowing the tree to re-grow from the stump, and re-cutting at intervals of one or more decades to provide long straight poles.
County Road Claim - Section 36
makes county council accept ownership of road so that they will maintain it.
CPA
Comprehensive Performance Assessment
Replacing Best Value?
Identifies failing councils for Government intervention
CroW
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
CSAC
Candidate Special Area of Conservation
Under EU Habitats Directive (See SACs)
CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility
DEFRA
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
DfES
Department for Education and Skills
EAC
Environmental Audit Committee
EAF
Environmental Action Fund (DEFRA)
Grants to voluntary orgs for core activities - mainly biodiversity
Earth Summit
Officially the 'United Nations Conference on Environment and Development', this was a milestone event at which leaders met in response to growing concerns about our degrading environment and the increasing poverty gap.
Ecological Footprint
The amount of productive space (land, sea, forest etc.) required to provide for the consumption of natural resources by an individual, city, country etc. WWF have calculated that the Earth has around 11.4 billion hectares of productive space, which works out at an area of 1.9 hectares for each of the 6 billion people on the planet - but our average ecological footprint is 2.3 hectares each!
EDRU
SBC's Economic Development and Regeneration Unit
EIC
Environmental Industries Commission
"The Voice of the UK Environmental Technology and Services Industry"
http://www.eic-uk.co.uk/
EMAS
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
EU Scheme that is a formal management system to encourage organisations to identify and reduce their negative environmental effects.ISO 14001 standard plus independently validated public report
EMBRACE
Ethnic Minority and Black Regional Action for Community Empowerment
ESD
Education in Sustainable Development
EST - Energy Saving Trust
non profit making government and private sector funded. Main objective to reduce CO2
Food Miles
A term used to encapsulate concerns about the increasing distances food travels and the associated environmental and social consequeces
FSE4Good
index series for socially responsible investors
GTSO
Green Transport Strategy Officer
Habitat
A place in which a particular plant or animal lives. Often used in a wider sense, referring to major assemblages of plants and animals found together e.g. heathland.
HECA
Home Energy Conservation Act. This Act has provided an impetus for local authorities to work towards improving energy efficiency in housing. Stafford Borough Council has a Home Energy Conservation Strategy to achieve reductions in energy consumption across all tenures.
HERS
Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme
Run by English Heritage. 3 yr programmes of neighbourhood renewal in most deprived urban and rural areas
HFC
Hydroflurocarbon
Industry replacement for CFC (sic)
HGCA
Home Grown Cereals Authority
organise Farmhouse Breakfast
HIMP
Health Improvement and Modernisation Programme. The HIMP Document summarises the work which is being undertaken within the Southern part of Staffordshire to improve the health and well-being of its residents, through a number of partnerships between local authorities, the Health Authority, voluntary organisations, NHS Trusts and primary care trusts. It is a three year rolling programme.
HPS
Health Promoting School
ICLEI
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
IDB
Internal Drainage Board
eg Sow and Penk Area IDB
consists of elected local land owners and local government councillors. Primarily maintain drains and ditches to drain farmland
IEMA
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Invertebrates
Animals without backbones
IPCC
International Panel on Climate Change
IPPC
Integrated Pollution Prevention Control
Directive designed to reduce pollution at source, through efficient use of natural resources.
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
LACOTS
Local Authorities Coordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards
LAPC
Local Air Pollution Control
DEFRA scheme with charges
Link: http://www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/airquality/lapc/default.htm
LARAC
Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee
LBAP
Local Biodiversity Action Plan
LDF
Local Development Framework
Replacement for Local Plans and Unitary Development Plans (proposed)
LEAF
Linking Environment and Farming
Integrated farm management
Demonstration Farms
Local Agenda 21/ LA21
The Local Agenda 21 Treaty was signed by over one hundred and fifty world leader at he 'Earth Summit' in Rio in 1992. The term 'Agenda 21' refers to the need to plan for and achieve sustainable development in the 21st Century
Local Plan
Local Plans are documents which provide guidance on the future pattern of land use. The Stafford Borough Local Plan 2001 aims to balance the need for development with protecting and enhancing the environment
Lowland Heathland
Characterised by the presence of plants such as heather, gorse and acidic grasses and generally found below 300 metres in altitude. The UK, and particularly Staffordshire, has an important proportion of the international total of this habitat
LPG
Liquid Petroleum Gas
Type of cleaner vehicle fuel-reduces CO2, Nox and PM10
LSP
Strategic Local Partnership
The LSP is a partnership involving organisations and individuals from the public, private, community and voluntary sectors which will develop a 'vision' of the kind of Borough we want to live in. A Partnership action involving joint working will be compiled as a means to achieve this 'vision'.
LTP - Local Transport Plan
Sets out how local authorities will develop and implement sustainable and integrated transport policies.
NAFM
National Association of Farmer's Markets
Natura 2000
Network of sites proposed to Euro Commission in recognition of their ecological importance under the terms of the Habitats Directive
NHSS
National Healthy Schools Scheme
NNR
National Nature Reserve
A reserve declared under law and managed either by one of the statutory nature conservation agencies or by an approved body.
ODPM
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Includes environment, transport local government, regions, social inclusion, planning
OECD
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PAHs
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Emissions from gasoline engines that can be removed by cat converter (80%)
Part L of Building Regulations
deals with energy efficiency of buildings, insulation, efficiency of windows, heating systems etc.
PET
Polyethylene Terephthalate
Recyclable plastic
PPC
Pollution Prevention and Control
Permits available under Landfill Regulations
PPG
Planning Policy Guidance Notes
Link: Communities and Local Government
PSA
Public Service Agreement
Done locally by councils, can give rewards of up to 2.5% of LA budget for delivering on targets
PSHE
Personal and Social Health Education
PV
Photo-Voltaic
Type of solar energy cell
Ramsar Site
Wetland area of international importance for conservation, designated under the terms of the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance
RDA
Regional Development Agency
RDB
Residential Development Boundary
RIG
Regionally Important Geological Site
RPG
Regional Planning Guidance
RSS
Regional Spatial Strategy
Regional replacement for Structure Plans
SACs - Special Areas of Conservation
These are sites designated under EU Habitats and Species Directive
SACs are designed to establish a coherent network of protected sites throughout the EU, to maintain and protect our most vulnerable species and habitats
SBI
Site of Biological Importance that is of county importance for wildlife interest. SBIs receive no legal protection but are taken into account in the planning process.
Section 16
Dedication of Land to public access
new Rights of Way Act
Lets landowners dedicate land to public access
Section 36
County Road Claim
Footpaths, Countryside and wildlife act
makes county council accept ownership of road so that they will maintain it.
Section 53
Right of Way Application
Footpaths, Countryside and wildlife act
Section 56
Route out of Repair notification
Footpaths, Countryside and wildlife act
SEED
Social Economic Environment Development
SEPA
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
SMEs
Small and medium sized enterprises
SocEnv
Society for the Environment
New umbrella body of the environmental profession
Petitioning for a Royal Charter
SPA
Special Protection Area
These sites are designated under the EU Wild Birds Directive (1979)
SRB - Single Regeneration Budget
The Government's Single Regeneration Budget is cash earmarked to help areas recover from major economic and social problems, such as large scale redundancies. The Borough has successfully bid for £5 million which will strengthen the economic base of the Borough, securing investment and new jobs.
SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest
An area of land notified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as being of special nature conservation interest. The SSSI designation applies throughout the UK. Sites are notified by the appropriate country conservation agency e.g. English Nature.
Staffordshire Biodiversity Action Plan (SBAP)
Staffordshire's Local BAP. The SBAP identifies priority habitats and species in the County, setting targets for their conservation and enhancement and outlining the mechanisms for achieving these targets.
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is usually defined as 'development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. It aims to ensure a better quality of life for all, both now and in the future. It is development which achieves social and economic progress at the same time as protecting and enhancing the environment.
Sustainability Indicators
A series of indicators that enable us to measure progress towards or away from sustainability.
Sustainable Staffordshire
This is a forum supported by local authorities, statutory bodies, business, colleges and universities, non-governmental organisations and individuals. Its aim is to help build a more sustainable Staffordshire.
SWM
Sustainability West Midlands
Formally the Roundtable on SD
TWAS
Timber Window Accreditation Scheme
run by British Woodworking Federation
UKCIP
UK Climate Impacts Programme
UNCED - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Unimproved Meadow
A meadow that has not been treated by fertilizers, herbicides or re-seeded and still retains a high diversity of plant and animal species.
WEEE
Waste Electronic Electrical Equipment Directive
EU directive
WESP
Waste Education Support Programme
Run by Waste Watch
WHI
Walking the Way to Health Initiative
ritish Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency
WRAP
Waste Resource Action Programme
WSSD
World Summit on Sustainable Development
Rio 1992, Johannesburg 2002