39,448 research outputs found
Affordable housing need in Scotland
No full textThis report presents the findings from research conducted in 2015 which sought to estimate the need for affordable housing across Scotland as a whole. The research was commissioned by Shelter Scotland, the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland and the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA). The core model estimates an affordable housing requirement in Scotland of 12,014 dwellings per annum over five years. This represents 64.2 per cent of the expected net increase in households in Scotland (18,704) over the next five years
The electricity generation mix in Scotland : the long and windy road?
No full textThe mix of technologies used to generate electricity in Scotland has evolved over the last ninety years. Since 2000, there has been a rapid increase in renewables capacity and generation, particularly in onshore wind. This has been supported by UK and Scottish policy and the associated funding mechanisms, including the Renewable Obligations Certificates (ROCs). In the coming decade, the Scottish generation mix is likely to see unprecedented changes that will include significant investments in a range of new generation technologies. Section 2 of this paper explains how the existing Scottish electricity generation mix was attained and Section 3 identifies the key drivers of changes over the next decade. Section 4 briefly examines some published scenarios for the Scottish generation mix and sets these in the context of the (recently updated) Scottish Government’s targets for electricity generation. The scenarios are informed by recent technology-specific “roadmaps”. Section 5 concludes by discussing the implications for policy
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
No full textSmith/Stewart video installation 'Breathing Space' (1997) exhibited in Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, in the context of this Scotland-wide group survey show, "Generation', 2014.
Accompanying publication - Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland: Reader and Guide
by Moira Jeffrey (Author, Editor), Katrina Brown (Editor
An Extension and Application of the Leontief Pollution Model for Waste Generation and Disposal in Scotland
No full textSolid waste generation, treatment and disposal are important policy concerns for the Scottish Parliament. As a result of the Environment Act 1995, a National Waste Strategy for Scotland was introduced with the general aim of reducing the amount of waste produced and dealing with what is produced in more sustainable ways. This implies the need for an empirical framework to inform policymakers regarding the relationship between economic activity and waste generation, treatment and disposal and the likely impacts of any policy actions or other disturbances on all types of sustainability indicators. In this paper we report on a study to develop an extended input-output (IO) system of the type originally proposed in the seminal paper by Leontief (1970). This involves extending the standard IOaccounts to take account of pollution or waste generation as an additional output accompanying production and consumption activities in the economy and of the activity required to clean up (or prevent) these unwanted outputs. The extension of IO tables to take account of pollution/waste generation is relatively widespread in the literature. It is usually achieved through the introduction of physical pollution/waste-output coefficients, and has been previously applied to Scotland for the case ofair pollution (see McNicoll & Blackmore, 1993, McGregor et al, 2001). Such an approach allows us to examine the impact of the economy on the environment, in terms of the amount of pollution/waste emitted as a result of economic activity. However, it does not allow us to track the feedback from the environment to the economy in terms of the resources used in environmental cleaning. If we areinterested in this aspect, we need to identify the input structure of any pollution abatement or waste disposal activities and identify columns in the IO tables representing cleaning activities
The regional electricity generation mix in Scotland: A portfolio selection approach
No full textStandalone levelised cost assessments of electricity supply options miss an important contribution that renewable and non-fossil fuel technologies can make to the electricity portfolio: that of reducing the variability of electricity costs, and their potentially damaging impact upon economic activity. Portfolio theory applications to the electricity generation mix have shown that renewable technologies, their costs being largely uncorrelated with non-renewable technologies, can offer such benefits. We look at the existing Scottish generation mix and examine drivers of changes out to 2020. We assess recent scenarios for the Scottish generation mix in 2020 against mean-variance efficient portfolios of electricity-generating technologies. Each of the scenarios studied implies a portfolio cost of electricity that is between 22% and 38% higher than the portfolio cost of electricity in 2007. These scenarios prove to be “inefficient” in the sense that, for example, lower variance portfolios can be obtained without increasing portfolio costs, typically by expanding the share of renewables. As part of extensive sensitivity analysis, we find that Wave and Tidal technologies can contribute to lower risk electricity portfolios, while not increasing portfolio cost.Electricity generation mix, portfolio theory, regional energy policy
Generation:25 years of contemporary art in Scotland
No full textMaterial accompanying a series of exhibitions, GENERATION : 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland held throughout Scotland during 20142 volumes (167, 220 pages): illustrations (black and white, and colour), colour map; 22 cm. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland ©2014Duncan of Jordanstone Library General Shelving (7(411)-19/20- )(ISBN: 9781906270728
Generation Scotland SFHS Data Dictionary
No full textThe GS:SFHS Data Dictionary is a set of information describing the contents, format, and structure of the phenotype data collected during recruitment (2006-2011) to the Generation Scotland Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS), or derived subsequently from study data collected during recruitment. This dataset replaces the one at https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/272
GENERATION: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
No full textGENERATION was a major nationwide exhibition programme showcasing some of the best and most significant art to have emerged from Scotland over the last twenty-five years. Contemporary art in Scotland has changed considerably over that time and GENERATION highlights some of the artists and works that have contributed significantly to the country's growing reputation as an international centre of excellence for the visual arts. During the summer of 2014, the work of over 100 artists, including key artwork of the period and new commissions, was exhibited in over sixty venues across Scotland. This book provides a fully illustrated guide to the GENERATION programme, with entries on the work of more than 80 artists and information about group exhibitions and other projects. it forms the first comprehensive overview of the art of the period
An Open Letter to Whomsoever it may Concern Regarding : Scotland – A Brief and Fractured Introduction to the History of the Period 1983/2083
No full textI have 2 essays re-published (the only contributor to have more that one) in this comprehensive critical overview of the last 25 years of Contemporary Visual Art in Scotland.
From the archive, the GENERATION Reader has gathered essays, talks and artist writings from the period, some of which have never been printed before. Artist Ross Sinclair’s essay for the 1991 Windfall exhibition and his nineties satire on a future Scotland as a giant historical theme park have been republished in full for the first time since 1996. Graham Fagen and Ruth Barker write about the challenges for artists working in public. There are robust accounts of the state of art institutions from figures like Adele Patrick and Professor Neil Mulholland as well as recollections of art education from artists including Luke Fowler, Katy Dove, Sara Barker and Corin Sworn.
Available to buy alongside the Guide, the GENERATION Reader is a packed volume, full of the ideas, arguments and inspirations that have shaped contemporary art in Scotland. With an introduction by novelist Louise Welsh, this collection of brand new essays and writings from the archive tells the story of the last 25 years in the voices of the artists and writers who took part, capturing the energy and ideas of the times.
New writings include prize-winning novelist Nicola White’s recollections of her work as a curator in the Glasgow Art Scene in the nineties and her recent travels, retracing the steps of poet Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey from Orkney to Glasgow, Professor Andrew Patrizio on working with artist Christine Borland to install a one-tonne bale of compressed rubbish into a pristine display case at Kelvingrove Museum and the day that then Prime Minister John Major and his wife Norma visited Glasgow’s McLellan Galleries. Curator Francis McKee describes espresso-fuelled days showing Scotland’s artists at the Venice Biennale.
The GENERATION Reader is the first volume of its kind to be published on contemporary art in Scotland over the last quarter century painting a lively, ambitious and at times controversial picture of the period.
“GENERATION is a major, nation-wide exhibition programme showcasing some of the best and most significant artists to have emerged from Scotland over the last 25 years.
The programme traces the developments in art in Scotland since 1989. It shows the generation of ideas, of experiences, and of world-class art on an unparalleled scale by over 100 artists in more than 60 venues. The artists within GENERATION came to attention whilst working in Scotland, helping to create the vibrant and internationally recognised contemporary art scene that exists here today.
The art that has emerged from Scotland during this period is characterised by its diversity, rather than by one particular style or dominant trend. GENERATION offers an opportunity to see art that is innovative, thought- provoking, imaginative, at times beautiful, at others challenging, but always inspiring.
GENERATION is delivered as a partnership between the National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland and is part of Culture 2014, the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
Generation Scotland: the Scottish family health study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability
No full textBackground: Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study aims to identify genetic variants accounting for variation in levels of quantitative traits underlying the major common complex diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, mental illness) in Scotland.
Methods/Design: Generation Scotland will recruit a family-based cohort of up to 50,000 individuals (comprising siblings and parent-offspring groups) across Scotland. It will be a six-year programme, beginning in Glasgow and Tayside in the first two years (Phase 1) before extending to other parts of Scotland in the remaining four years (Phase 2). In Phase 1, individuals aged between 35 and 55 years, living in the East and West of Scotland will be invited to participate, along with at least one (and preferably more) siblings and any other first degree relatives aged 18 or over. The total initial sample size will be 15,000 and it is planned that this will increase to 50,000 in Phase 2. All participants will be asked to contribute blood samples from which DNA will be extracted and stored for future investigation. The information from the DNA, along with answers to a life-style and medical history questionnaire, clinical and biochemical measurements taken at the time of donation, and subsequent health developments over the life course (traced through electronic health records) will be stored and used for research purposes. In addition, a detailed public consultation process will begin that will allow respondents' views to shape and develop the study. This is an important aspect to the research, and forms the continuation of a long-term parallel engagement process.
Discussion: As well as gene identification, the family-based study design will allow measurement of the heritability and familial aggregation of relevant quantitative traits, and the study of how genetic effects may vary by parent-of-origin. Long-term potential outcomes of this research include the targeting of disease prevention and treatment, and the development of screening tools based on the new genetic information. This study approach is complementary to other population-based genetic epidemiology studies, such as UK Biobank, which are established primarily to characterise genes and genetic risk in the population
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