Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) is set to take a central role at Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2011, demonstrating progress and the latest developments on its Emirate-wide urban development strategy – Vision 2030. Plan Capital 2030, Plan Al Ain 2030 and Plan Al Gharbia 2030 will lead the UPC’s participation at Cityscape Abu Dhabi this year
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
There is a growing need to describe and quantify the heterogeneity in soil carbon pools in forests. In landscapes where topography is an important control on geomorphological, hydrological and/or biogeochemical processes, topographic features can be useful for partitioning the landscape into homogeneous units of soil carbon. Of particular interest are topographic features that are rare
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The West African telecommunications giant, Globacom, has launched its footprint onto the Ghanaian market with its data service, Glo One, after much anticipation of its entry as the sixth licensed mobile telephony company in the country. The company chose to start its grand entry into Ghana with its 640 gigabyte per second 9,800 kilometre long fibre
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Nation Development requires careful, calculated consideration to plan, evaluate and develop in order to ensure that the right development is in the right locations, serving the right purpose, at the right time, for the appropriate cost. As a nation, we must meet these needs, without jeopardizing the ability of future generations and sustainable design is
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Around 200,000 UK farmers currently receive around £3 billion in subsidies every year from the EU. The ‘Single Farm Payment’ is an annual payment rewarded per hectare of land. Direct payments enable investment in modern technology and sustainable farming methods. A report released on 15th April 2011 by the Telegraph, ” Reform of farm subsidies risk putting
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
A new web-based interface is now available to GNSS community thanks to the EU-funded project TestCase: the GSTI (GNSS Simulation and Testing Infrastructure) provides access to detailed information about testing tools or infrastructure, including location, technical features, conditions of use, typical use cases and points of contact. TestCase project is managed by the French company
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Russia will test a next-generation spacecraft, build a new cosmodrome and even consider a manned mission to Mars after 2035, the nation’s space chief said Wednesday. But Anatoly Perminov conceded that Russian spacecraft depend on imported electronics, speaking to lawmakers a day after the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Please find attached an invitation to attend a high-level event for the launch of a UNEP Finance Initiative study on REDD finance. The event will take place on 6 May at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Headquarters in London. In addition to senior representatives from financial institutions already active in forest- and REDD-finance, we are
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
So far 1,900 exhibitors from 44 countries have booked stands at the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica 2011, to be held in Hanover in November. As the organiser DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) reports, this represents an increase in exhibitor figures of about ten per cent by comparison with
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Launched in November last year, Digimap for Schools provides easy, online access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital mapping for the whole of Great Britain. It was awarded Gold Certification for the most innovative new educational resource available to teachers. The service is designed to improve the teaching of geography in schools – reflecting changes in technology
