CARIBSAT project aims at conceiving and implementing in the Lesser Antilles an instrument to achieve sound environmental management and sustainable development based on an online geographic atlas supplied by the acquisition and analysis of satellite images, associated to a knowledge database and customized decision tools …/…
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Climate changes are currently the subject of intense scientific research and many questions are being asked by the general public, but on the other hand there is an obvious failure on the part of politicians to make decisions. This is very strange since so many factors contribute to our awareness of the interactions that take place at planetary scale […]
Implementation of the UNDP-GEF Project ”Integrated Ecosystem Management in the Prespa Lakes Basin of Albania, FYR of Macedonia and Greece” has began in 2007, after several years of preparation, in a regional environment described as differences in capacity, commitment and national policy across borders, which are strong constraints, in addition to questions of national sovereignty and policies, barriers to free […]
The workshop “Reinforcing Europe’s Contribution to GEO” took place on May 5 2009 in Stresa, Lago Maggiore – Italy. As a side event to the 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, it contributed to the GEO focus of the Symposium. As the 2nd EC GEO Project Workshop, it helped to sketch a view on the progress Europe is […]
This project was sponsored by the Chief Directorate: Spatial Planning & Information, Department of Land Affairs (DLA), Eastern Cape, in conjunction with the Spatial Information Management Unit, Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape, South Africa. With Quantum GIS, we offer an alternative – software that is free of cost and free in a social sense. You can make […]
The Drin River Basin is located in the Western Balkans and it is shared between Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. The total catchment area of the basin is around 19,600 km2 and including Black Drin which drains from Lake Ohrid and flows up north until it meets White Drin and flow together as Drin until they meet the Buna […]
The area of flood forecasting and warning has traditionally been one to which WMO has dedicated considerable effort. This tradition is being continued with the publication of the Manual on Flood Forecasting and Warning. Floods are without doubt among the most devastating of natural disasters, striking numerous regions in the world each year. During the last decades the trend in flood damages has […]
Addressing climate change impacts is a relatively new application of the planning process (see Box 1). Climate change planning can refer to either reducing greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity (often called ”mitigation”) or adapting human and natural environments to the potential impacts of climate change. Although these two approaches are not necessarily mutually exclusive, most planning efforts focus on either emissions […]
The Balkan region is famous for its outstanding natural beauty and diversity, featuring coastal Mediterranean plains and alpine meadows, estuaries and deltas, rigid karst formations and open plains, vast lakes and many of the last wild rivers of Europe with a very high number of rare and endemic species. In particular the pristine river systems and natural lakes are […]