Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
SERVIR AFRICA – Charles Kironji Gatebe’s early years read like a cliché. He grew up barefoot and poor in the small Kenyan village of Kenda at the foot of Mount Kenya, the son of coffee sharecroppers who raised their family on pennies a day. He walked nearly 10 miles each way to school for nearly
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
OPTI-CAL – GPS and laser technology are being used by a team of mechanical engineers in a bid to make the longest ever driverless car journey. The project, devised by a team of Italian engineers, is aiming to get two heavily-modified driverless Piaggio Porter Electric vehicles from Milan to Shanghai in just eight months. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The book will be focused on socio-economical aspects of spatial analysis and modelling and will therefore represent a meeting point for those researchers and scholars that in recent times are interested by the new challenges presented by the availability of spatial data at all scales and the need for implementing – or re-implementing –
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
SANTIAGO TIMES – After a four-year delay, the construction of the Vespucio Oriente Highway was confirmed last week by the Public Works Ministry (MOP). The highway that skirts the eastern part of the Metropolitan Region will be mostly underground and will cost about US$1.7 billion. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – An issue paper listing the proposed priorities for a national environment policy has been published, launching the consultation phase before the drawing up of the policy, which should be available by mid-next year. The paper, work on which started in May, deals with a number of issues, including air, climate, soil,
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
NORWAY POST – In the first half of 2010, 25 exploration wells had been completed on the Norwegian Shelf, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. During the same period last year, 33 exploration wells were drilled. 19 of the 25 are wildcat wells (new prospects) and six are appraisal wells (for delineation of earlier discoveries). Read
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – While speeds in urban areas continue to increase, the average speed in the countryside has actually fallen over the last year. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The connection delivers productivity improvements to architects and other specifiers by providing a quick and easy-to-use method within ArchiCAD for creating links between the information modeled in ArchiCAD and that modeled in NBS. Clause titles and references can be added with a single mouse-click; NBS guidance can be viewed in context to assist decision making;
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disclosed plans to expunge from the Abuja Geographic information Systems, (AGIS) functions of land Administration as well as land related departments. Following this, the agency would now be repositioned to serve as a service agency to land Administration. FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed disclosed this yesterday in Abuja
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
How are the methods and ideas of ecosystems services to be applied in practice? Many people see the idea of ecosystem services as some kind of new and all embracing panicea in relation to assessing, understanding and promoting projects. In reality ecosystem services methodology is very closely related to other economic assessment methods; this conference will explore this relationship in
