This special issue reviews technological options for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The options analyzed include efficiency improvements, renewable energies, clean fossil and zero-carbon energy technologies, carbon sequestration and disposal, enhancement of natural carbon sinks...

Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities, Regional Studies 40, 973-990. Schools are central to the goals of a multicultural society, but their ability to act as arenas...

The paper provides evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data, indices of dissimilarity and isolation are employed to compare patterns of segregation across nine...

<title>Abstract</title> The UK ESRC Public Services Programme (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.publicservices.ac.uk">www.publicservices.ac.uk</ext -link>) commissioned a number of projects that employ a range of comparative research methods to investigate a variety of questions in the field of public management. This provides the database on which I draw for the current...<//ext></ext-link>