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Final Report<br />

250<br />

In addition to climate change, what other factors can contribute to or influence this impact?<br />

• Ethnically diverse population and changing socio demographics mean new and<br />

changing expectations<br />

• Community involvement and social regeneration<br />

• Location of jobs in <strong>London</strong> and the south east<br />

- Commuting and migrating populations<br />

• Business location and transport to/from/between work and home<br />

- Changing business practices<br />

- Work from home<br />

- Decentralised/multicentric business<br />

• Global recession/war<br />

• Government intervention<br />

• Technology improvements - affordability of technology<br />

What tensions arise when you consider the other aspects of sustainable development related<br />

to this impact?<br />

• Capital cost - revenue cost<br />

- Cost to construction industry, running cost for home owner is rising<br />

• Long-term changes in economic practice. What is considered as good practice now<br />

may be different in the future<br />

• Sustainable development and environmental accountability<br />

• Skills shortages - employers become more aware of importance of environmental<br />

and social needs<br />

• Realisation from consumers, who want a good quality of life, that they as ‘drivers’<br />

of markets will have to pay<br />

• Inequality - social deprivation<br />

Group 3 - Environmental<br />

Environmental Characteristics<br />

Water Quality<br />

• Temperature of the Thames - fish, cooling<br />

• Increased silt<br />

• Less dilution capacity - low flows

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