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Forestry Key References
Supporting documents and research for 'The Value of Trees in Our Changing Region - The Regional Forestry Strategy for Yorkshire & The Humber Region'.

Local Strategic Partnerships
An LSP is an umbrella partnership that brings together organisations from public, private, community and voluntary sector in a local authority area. The key objective of the LSP is to improve the quality of life in that area. Because an LSP is locally based, the community are well placed to influence its decision-making. This provides the community with the opportunity to have their say on what services should be provided to meet their needs

New content for 2008
Check out the following local and regional documents and projects added to the Environment Hub database so far in 2008.

One Region Living
The One Region Living Seminar Series 2008 is all about understanding and applying some of the current big ideas about sustainability: 'living within environmental limits', 'one planet living', 'the low carbon economy' and so on. What do these concepts really mean for us in the Yorkshire & Humber region? How can we apply them in a practical way to planning and decision-making?

The City Regions in Yorkshire & the Humber
A City Region is the official realisation that a municipality's economic, cultural and demographic reach can extend beyond the political boundaries of the city itself. The term city region has been in use since about 1950 by urbanists, economists and urban planners to mean not just the administrative area of a recognisable city or conurbation but also its hinterland that will often be far bigger. Conventionally, if one lives in an apparently rural area, suburb or county town where a majority of wage-earners travel into a particular city for a full or part-time job then one is (in effect) residing in the city region.