The essence of capital charging is very simple: namely, that the costs of capital facilities should be rendered explicit. Such transparency is intended to introduce new discipline to decisions about the acquisition, use and disposal of publicly financed assets. Implementation of capital charging in New Zealand and the United Kingdom in the 1990s has focused attention on practical issues, notably the valuation basis and the relationship of funding and capital charging systems. Capital charging will be extended to the UK central government sector in 2001–02, the year in which Resource (i.e. accruals) Budgeting becomes operational. This article relates experience to date to the specific circumstances of asset‐intensive areas of central government and of public services beyond the central government boundary. Capital charging should be seen as a VFM tool, the use of which will be conditioned both by the size and nature of asset holdings and by the context established by other New Public Management reforms, such as purchaser/provider separation.

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Risk communication efforts to mitigate the second cause of lung cancer worldwide (after tobacco smoking)the radioactive gas radon in buildingsare often ineffective. Therefore, new European legal requirements bind member states to prepare communication strategies to ' … increase public awareness and inform local decision makers, employers and employees of the risks of radon … ' (Council directive 2013/59/EURATOM, ANNEX XVIII/(10)). This manifesto is written to support states to prepare an effective and efficient communication strategy and to avoid the main pitfalls in radon communication. It is based on the discussions that took place at a Workshop on Radon Risk Communication, organized by the German Federal Office of Radiation Protection (BfS) and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies IASS in Potsdam, Germany from 8 to 10 of October 2019. The authors present a strategic view on the concrete measures that may be taken by authorities, experts and scientists to communicate the risk of radon to human health and to promote radon protection actions more effectively.