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Drivers for Geospatial and GIS Services in Sustainability

Yesterday I mentioned ecological services. This will become a fast growing market in the days ahead for several reasons I think. Several factors will contribute to the evolution of ecological services, but also other sustainability services dependent on spatial information, geo-processing and new forms of visualisation. In previous Perspectives columns we talked about the role of [...]

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• Bela Markus of the University of West Hungary provides a presentation (download here) entitled 'Training needs of the Hungarian Land Administration'. The presentation is particularly focused on surveyors and includes several capabilities a 21st Century surveyor needs to demonstrate. Reference is made to a 3D Urban Modeling Summer School event in late August. #
• The UNEP GRID Arendal is a website that points out the need for mobilising environmental information - not just collecting it and archiving it. The difference between developing nations and non-developing nations when it comes to sustainable land use and management is related to 'action' with the information. Website Policy development and planning for sustainable development and coherent environmental management demands information, national data and knowledge of the state of the environment. As assessments and analyses become multi-sectoral, the degree of complexity generates the need for integrated information. These products in turn require organizational infrastructures for the acquisition, integration, analysis and dissemination of data and information. -- GRID Arendal #