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REUTERS -- Twenty eight community leaders from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras -
primarily grassroots women - together with a large number of local
residents gathered in Guadalupe to prepare a community map of this
small hurricane prone coastal town in Honduras. This community hazard
mapping exercise was part of a four-day, four-country learning
exchange, sponsored by GROOTS International's Community Resilience
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WASHINGTON POST -- Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were
torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area,
according to an analysis of satellite images released Thursday.
The analysis, conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on behalf of Amnesty International. Read More
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC -- A profound U.S. recession will likely resonate worldwide and push
conservation to the bottom of governments' priority lists for years to
come, said Alejandro Nadal, who chairs an IUCN working group on
macroeconomics and the environment. The slump may also exacerbate economic pressures that can damage the environment. Read More
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NEW YORK TIMES -- All 10 provincial governors of the island of Sumatra agreed to a deal
to protect endangered forests, a move that could help control
planet-warming emissions. Hermien Roosita, Indonesia’s deputy minister for the environment, said the next steps would involve coming up with an islandwide conservation plan. Read More
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TURKISH WEEKLY - The participants will consider over 20 issues on various directions of cooperation of defence bodies of the CIS countries. Among the issues are development of digital cartography database,
carrying out metrological works and rendering metrological services to
military forces of the CIS, creation of single headquarters of the
single anti-aircraft defence system, etc.
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AFRIK.COM - According to the UN, and the national
electricity company, Senelec, only one in four Senegalese have access
to mains electricity so investing in solar energy could bring
electricity to millions of Senegalese, extensively trim down
electricity bills in the long term, and draw millions of dollars in
development funding under the UN-brokered Clean Development Mechanism,
if investors step in.
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Written by Ulf Månsson
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 In Sweden most of
the 290 municipalities used to have their own local coordinate
systems. The national geodata is stored and distributed in a
separate national system. This difference has created problems over
time when attempting to share and collaborate at both local and
national levels based on each set of geoinformation. Sweden is now
introducing a new national system – SWEREF 99. Today, some cities
and municipalities have changed to SWEREF 99 and the rest are in the
transformation process - coordinate by coordinate.
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Written by Jeff Thurston
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 INTERGEO 2008 opened under rainy skies
in the northern city of Bremen, Germany with the theme ‘Knowledge
and action for planet earth’. With 478 exhibitors from 29 countries
in attendance, presentations included reference to the changing
world, climatic threats and the need for authoritative data to meet
these challenges - a theme V1 Magazine has also been promoting over
the last year.
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Written by Michael Staudt
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 Focusing on the Baltic Sea Region the
project "ASTRA - Developing Policies and Adaptation Strategies
to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region" assessed the
regional impacts of climate change impacts and developed adequate
adaptation strategies and policy recommendations together with
relevant stakeholders. The ASTRA consortium consisted of research
institutes, regional and local planning authorities around the Baltic
Sea. The project has been co-financed by the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF) through the INTERREG IIIB Baltic Sea
Programme from 2005-2007.
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Written by Matt Ball
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 Autodesk is pushing the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into areas outside of simply buildings. The company describes BIM as an integrated process that coordinates reliable information about a project through all phases of design and construction, and they see increasing opportunity for the application of the BIM approach in the civil engineering space.
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Written by Jeff Thurston
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 The 20th AGI (Association for Geographic Information) Event and 2nd
Geocommunity Conference 2008 was held this past week at
Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK to an audience of 600 under the theme ‘Shaping
a Changing World’. The evening prior to the event featured a
pre-conference icebreaker which included the Earl of Oxford's Men, a
Shakespearean entertainment group who performed the Henry V Battle of
Agincourt in full attire and with an abundance of fun and laughter.
Steven Feldman once again acted as Conference Chair, putting together
a program that included a wide ranging and diverse number presentations
traversing the GI community within the UK. Major sponsors of the event
this year included Autodesk, ESRI(UK) and Ordnance Survey.
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Written by Cathy Chatfield-Taylor
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 In
the most densely populated area of the Netherlands, the city of
Amsterdam undertook the monumental challenge of designing a community
for 45,000 inhabitants on 495 hectares of nonexistent land. Creating
a new landmass by reclaiming seven islands from dredged sand in
IJmeer, a lake on Amsterdam’s east side, residents with a fondness
for waterfront property will have their choice of custom homes or
high-rise apartments.
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Written by Jessica Wyland
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 For much of Idaho, the Snake River is a lifeblood. The 1,040 mile tributary
of the Columbia River provides water for drinking, irrigating, and
generating approximately 50 percent of the state’s energy through
hydropower. The Snake River flows from Yellowstone National Park
through a series of mountain ranges, canyons, and plains in Wyoming,
Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. For Idaho Power Company, owner and
operator of 17 hydroelectric power plants, preservation of the river is
of utmost importance.
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