Europe's environment: the third assessment

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24 January 2008 | 2077

This is the third pan-European state of the environment report produced by the EEA. It was prepared for the 'Environment for Europe' Ministerial Conference being held under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Kiev, Ukraine on 21-23 May 2003. This assessment is the most comprehensive up-to-date overview currently available of the state of the environment on this continent. In contrast to previous reports issued in 1995 and 1998, it covers for the first time the entire Russian Federation and the 11 other Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asian (EECCA) states. The report also analyses how the main economic driving forces put pressure on the European environment and identifies key areas where further action is needed.
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The Planning Tax: The Case against Regional Growth-Management Planning

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07 December 2007 | 2119

Close to 40 percent of Americans live in states and regions where growth-management planning has reduced housing affordability. According to a new study by the Cato Institute, such planning is the primary cause of the recent housing bubble.

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Sustainable Mountain Development

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16 December 2007 | 2412

The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 60/198, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-second session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions. The report describes the status of sustainable mountain development at the national, regional and international levels, including an overall analysis of the challenges ahead, and provides suggestions for consideration by the Assembly as to how to continue to promote effectively sustainable development in mountain regions around the world within the existing policy context, including chapter 13 of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Millennium Development Goals.
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Spatial Data Infrastructure to INSPIRE Scotland

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21 November 2007 | 3456

S Ramage, 1Spatial - Member of the AGI Working Group for INSPIRE, OGC Europe Forum and ePSIplus contributor. Scotland is uniquely positioned to become the leading regional entity in Great Britain. The importance of federalism is self-evident to those in the European Community. This paper examines the opportunity to use spatial data to create an effective regional entity in Scotland. The paper examines the experiences in Australia and Northern Ireland. It attempts to draw on the experiences particularly from Northern Ireland and draw some generic conclusions.
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