scholarly journals Integrating local air quality and carbon management at a regional and local governance level: a case study of south west England

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Baldwin ◽  
M. Everard ◽  
E. T. Hayes ◽  
J. W. S. Longhurst ◽  
J. R. Merefield
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Carbon Management ◽  
South West ◽  
South West England

The date and context of a stone row: Cut Hill, Dartmoor, south-west England

Antiquity ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (323) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Fyfe ◽  
Tom Greeves
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Context ◽  
Radiocarbon Date ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
South West ◽  
Linear Alignment ◽  
South West England

The beginning of monolithic monumentality in Europe is of outstanding significance and its accurate dating a consummation devoutly to be wished. In this case study from England, the researchers had the good fortune to find monoliths stratified above and below by peat and so were able to give them a bracketed radiocarbon date and an environmental context. The results show that the stones, belonging to a linear alignment of eight others, were erected in a clearing of heathland in the fourth millennium BC. The date raises the possibility of a Neolithic appearance for this type of stone row in south-west Britain and Britanny.

scholarly journals A socio-ecological perspective on behavioural interventions to influence food choice in schools: alternative, complementary or synergistic?

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Moore ◽  
Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski ◽  
Sue N Moore
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
School Food ◽  
Behavioural Interventions ◽  
South West ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The Uk ◽  
South West England

AbstractObjectiveAn increasing focus on legislation, policy and guidance on the nutritional content of school food has in part been in response to the limited impact of more behavioural or educational approaches. However, there is a risk that a sole focus on policy-level action may lead to neglect of the important contribution that more behavioural approaches can make as components of effective, coordinated, multilevel action to improve the dietary intake of schoolchildren. The current paper aims to highlight the potential importance of viewing alternative approaches as complementary or synergistic, rather than competing.DesignThe socio-ecological and RE-AIM frameworks are used to provide a theoretical rationale and demonstrate the importance of explicitly identifying the interdependence of policies, interventions and contextual structures and processes. School food case study evidence is used to exemplify how understanding and exploiting these interdependencies can maximise impact on dietary outcomes.SettingCase studies of trials in schools in the UK (South West England and Wales) and Australia (Victoria).SubjectsSchoolchildren.ResultsThe case studies provide examples to support the hypothesis that the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance of school food policies and interventions can be maximised by understanding and exploiting the interdependence between levels in the socio-ecological framework.ConclusionsRather than being seen as competing alternatives, diverse approaches to improving the diets of schoolchildren should be considered in terms of their potential to be complementary and synergistic, acting at multiple levels to improve acceptability, fidelity, effectiveness and sustainability.

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