Sunday, October 10th, 2010
If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or are unable to) spend most of the time focusing on a screen, the use of mobile devices tends to be a frustrating experience. The same is true in bright sunlight or if your eyesight just isn’t good enough to see every detail on the
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
The reduction of land maintenance actions has determined a need for awareness about soil conservation issues. The main consequence is an increasing soil loss due to flash flood or similar phenomena. This issue needs a new approach leading to a continuous analysis and monitoring action. This part’s aim is to describe the main steps of
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Management of major transport infrastructures such as highways is an extremely complex task that requires different teams handling a vast range of very heterogeneous static and real-time information. This challenge has been faced in the context of one of Italy’s most important motorways, through development of a scalable spatial data infrastructure that allows managing a
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
In the last decades the interest for sustainable development of mountain areas has considerably increased for different reasons. As stated in chapter 13 of AGENDA 21, mountain regions are a source of biodiversity and environmental resources. At the same time, the population’s decrease generally caused a loss of indigenous knowledge and natural resources conservation, too.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
The LINK project has created a European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel in order to enhance the combined use of different transport modes on one single journey, with its focus on long distance trips and thus also on cross-border travelling. This stresses the context of an often unknown environment for the traveller.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Located on the Claro River in Brazil, the 90-megawatt Barra dos Coqueiros hydroelectric power plant will generate energy for 650,000 people in the state of Goias. It is one of two new hydroelectric plants being put into operation in April 2010 by the Gerdau Group, the leading manufacturer of long steel in the Americas. The
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Future strategies and measures of spatial development will increasingly focus on energy policy. Adopting a holistic approach, measures of mitigation and measures of adaptation need to be combined. In addition, socio-political elements should be taken into account. Therefore the term “climate justice” contains the requirement to be suitable for the climate (as environmental justice) and
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Plan4all is a European project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus. The main aim of the project is to harmonise spatial planning data and related metadata according to the INSPIRE principles. The Plan4all project should contribute to the standardisation in the field of spatial data from spatial planning point of view. Its activities and results will
Friday, July 16th, 2010
The fall of the Berlin wall and the subsequent enlargement of the European Union eastward presented special opportunities for the two cities which had lost their hinterland after the second world war: Berlin and Vienna. Time had come to reconnect ancient ties and build an integrated future for central Europe. Schwechat, a municipality adjacent to
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of human-ecological urban system are undergoing rapid change. There are two major threads: systems and complexity, and advances in the landscape ecology research traditions. The first focuses on how to more appropriately capture the joint dynamics of both human and ecological needs. The second focuses on methodology.
