Project Resources - Abbreviations
This contains the key abbreviations and acronyms This used in the project
Abbreviations
- BATNEEC
- Best available technology not entailing excessive cost
- BAU
- Business as usual scenarios
- BPEO
- Best practicable environmental option
- CAP
- Common Agricultural Policy
- CE
- Cambridge Econometrics
- CMS
- Caleb Group
- COICOP
- National database of household expenditure
- CURE
- Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology
- DCLG
- Department of Communities & Local Government
- DfT
- Department for Transport
- DTLR
- (the former) Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions
- DEFRA
- Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- DETR
- (the former) Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions
- DPSIR
- driving forces, pressures, state, impact, response framework for indicators
- DTI
- Department of Trade and Industry
- DUKES
- Digest of UK Energy Statistics
- EA
- Environment Agency
- EEA
- European Environment Agency
- ECA
- Enhanced Capital Allowance
- ERDF
- European Regional Development Fund
- EU
- European Union
- EUWFD
- EU Water Framework Directive
- F-4
- Factor 4 reduction in resource use
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- GONW
- Government Office NW
- IA
- Integrated assessment
- ICT
- Information & communications technology
- IPCC
- Inter-Governmental Panel on the Scientific Assessment of Climate Change
- IPPC
- Integrated pollution prevention and control
- LCA
- Life-cycle analysis of environmental impacts
- LDF
- Local development framework
- LFT
- Land Fill Tax
- LSP
- Local Strategic Partnership
- NWDA
- North West Development Agency
- NWRA
- North West Regional Assembly
- NDPB
- non-departmental public body
- ODPM
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- ONS
- Office of National Statistics
- OST
- Office of Science & Technology
- PIU
- Performance & Innovation Unit (former) of the Cabinet Office
- PMSU
- Prime Ministers Strategy Unit
- PREST
- Policy Research for Engineering Science & Technology
- PRODCOM
- Database of products and materials of Customs & Excise
- RDA
- Regional Development Agency
- REAP
- Resource Analysis Programme
- REEIO
- Regional Economy-Environment Input-Output (Model)
- RES
- Regional economic strategy
- REWARD
- Regional & Welsh Appraisal for Resource Productivity & Development
- ROHS
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances (directive)
- RPG
- Regional Planning Guidance
- RSS
- Regional Spatial Strategy
- RSDF
- Regional Sustainable Development Framework
- SA
- Sustainability appraisal
- SCP
- Sustainable consumption & production
- SCP-net
- Sustainable Consumption & Production network
- SEA
- Strategic environmental assessment
- SEI
- Stockholm Environment Institute
- SEPA
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- SU
- Strategy Unit of the Cabinet Office
- TEPI
- Towards Environmental Pressure Indicators (EEA)
- UDP
- Unitary Development Plan
- UKCIP
- UK Climate Impacts Programme
- USEPA
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- WEEE
- Waste Electronic Electrical Equipment (directive)
- WFD
- EU Water Framework Directive
- WCA
- Waste collection authority
- WDA
- Waste disposal authority
- WPA
- Waste planning authority