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.
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Have you ever considered why the politicians don’t pay the same attention to our maps as we do and as we think they should do? They know very well how to use complex spread-sheets, so why do they turn their backs to our wonderful maps? Are the politicians ‘stupid’? Are the politicians ignorant? Or, are our maps not
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
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Two events took place in Nessebar, Bulgaria recently. These were organized by the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG) under the patronage of the Kristalina Geoggieva, Member of the European Commission. The events were the 3rd ISDE Digital Earth Summit, with co-organizer International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and The 3rd International Conference
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
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Spatial data are important to scientific studies and research. They are the raw pieces of information that inform us about the processes involved in many fields. Scientists involved in oceanography, forestry, soil science, energy, human geography, health, transportation, urban planning and many other field collect, manage, process and visualize both simple and complex processes using
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.
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
The Winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller ChallengeRichard Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983), engineer, architect, designer, philosopher and inventor, is prominently known for the famous lightweight and stable geodesic domes he constructed, such as the US Pavilion of the EXPO 1967 in Montreal, now housing the eco-watch centre Biosphère. The domes reflect his continuous efforts
