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Fool's Gold: How the 2012 Olympics is selling East London short, and a 10 point plan for a more positive local legacy
Author: Josh Ryan-Collins and Paul Sander Jackson
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 1 904 822 27 5
Price: £10.00
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Fool’s Gold, shows that, unless cast-iron guarantees are built into plans for the 2012 Olympics, the Games will fail to leave the promised positive local legacy for the poorest residents of East London.

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Hitting the target, missing the point: How government regeneration targets fail deprived areas
Author: Eilis Lawlor and Jeremy Nicholls
Publisher: nef
ISBN: ISBN 1 904882 26 8
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Three decades on from the Urban Regeneration Act, inequality continues to increase. Now, new research from nef, evaluating the impact of one of the government’s flagship programmes: the ‘Local Enterprise Growth Initiative’ (LEGI) says that investment has not been targeted at the places where it would have the most impact because it has not been supported by robust measurement.

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Up In Smoke? Asia and the Pacific
Author: Hannah Reid (IIED), Andrew Simms with Dr Victoria Johnson and based on contributions from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development and their partners
Publisher: nef and IIED
ISBN: 978 1 904882 25 1
Price: £15.00
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The biggest study yet from the unique coalition of major UK poverty and environment groups reveals scale of climate impacts on international work -and says immediate action needed before Asia goes 'Up in Smoke'?

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Chinadependence: The second UK interdependence report
Author: Andrew Simms (nef policy director), Dr Victoria Johnson (nef climate change researcher) and Dr Joe Smith (of the Open University Geography Discipline)
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978 1 882 24 4
Price: £10.00
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Chinadependence: the second UK Interdependence report, published in association with the Open University, released to mark the day that the world as a whole goes into ecological debt, reveals the many ways in which Britain is becoming increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to fuel our high-consuming lifestyles. In particular, Chinadependence reveals a striking rise in our dependence on a

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Unintended consequences: How the efficiency agenda erodes local public services and a new public benefit model to restore them
Author: Josh Ryan-Collins, Lisa Sanfilippo and Stephen Spratt
Publisher: nef
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A new briefing paper from nef says that the Government’s efficiency agenda is eroding local public services and proposes a new ‘Public Benefit’ model to restore them.

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Going green? How financial services are failing ethical consumers
Author: Jessica Brown
Publisher: nef
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A new report from nef finds that ethical financial services are failing to keep pace with rising consumer demand.

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Clone town Britain survey: II
Publisher: nef
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In the two years since nef released the Clone Town Britain survey, the health of our high streets has barely left the headlines. To find out what is really going on, we're re-launching the survey and we need your help. Survey your town and return the form to us by the end of December 2007.

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The European Happy Planet Index: An index of carbon efficiency and well-being in the EU
Author: Sam Thompson, Saamah Abdallah, Nic Marks, Andrew Simms and Victoria Johnson
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 1 0904 882 23 4
Price: £10.00
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In an age of climate change, when it is more important than ever that we use our resources efficiently, the European Happy planet Index reveals that Europe as a whole is less carbon efficient at delivering human well-being in terms of relatively happy, long lives to its citizens than it was over 40 years ago.

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Measuring real value: A DIY guide to Social Return on Investment
Author: Jeremy Nicholls, Susan Mackenzie and Ailbeth Somers. Edited and compiled by Lisa Sanfilippo and Eilis Lawlor
Publisher: nef
ISBN: 978-1-904882-22-0
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Taking the temperature: Towards an NHS response to global warming
Author: Dr Victoria Johnson and Andrew Simms.
Publisher: NHS Confederation
ISBN: 978 1 85947 140 1
Price: £15.00
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Taking the temperature says that the NHS faces a dual challenge. As well as taking action to reduce its own carbon emissions, as the lead agency responsible for public health, it needs to invest in preventive healthcare to strengthen the resilience of the population, as well as in treatment for the victims of a warmer, more variable climate

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