Friday, May 27th, 2011
Over the next 40 years we will have to build the same urban capacity again that was built over the last 4000 years. On top of this, 80 percent of the expected US$80-100 billion per year in climate change adaptation costs are to be borne by urban areas. Now is the time to make sure
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
When Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, arrived in Africa this week, he would have seen plenty to remind him of home. Tata and Mahindra buses clog the roads, while Bharti Airtel billboards bring a dash of colour to city skylines. Mr Singh arrived in Ethiopia on Monday for the second India Africa Forum Summit –
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
High-speed train projects will connect Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, with the Aegean province of İzmir, the country’s third biggest city, according to information gathered by the Anatolia news agency. The routes, which are planned to pass through the western provinces of Afyonkarahisar and Uşak, will reduce the route between the two cities by nearly 200 kilometers
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Russian-European energy partnership is at the core of security of supply considerations in the EU, and of energy relations on the European continent. The Russian Federation is the most important energy partner of the European Union. This will remain so in the future. Russia in 2009 accounted for 36% of EU gas imports – around
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Denmark and Greenland intend to establish an Arctic military command structure, boost oil and gas drilling and claim sovereignty of the North Pole, the country’s draft Arctic Strategy reads. “One of the most striking global conditions in the last 10 years are the major changes of the Arctic region”, the strategy document starts. It outlines a very pro-active
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
The experience developed by Ian McHarg represents the first attempt to base environmental planning on more objective methods. In particular, he supposed that the real world can be considered as a layer cake and each layer represents a sectoral analysis. This metaphor represents the fundamental of overlay mapping. At the beginning, these principles have been
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Green water, high snowcovered mountains- and in the middle Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre. Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre is situated at the national park and beside the lake Strynsvatn, which was a part of the fjords thousands of years ago. The breathtaking landscape, the lake, and the mountains make a fantastic living postcard that you will never
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Ultrasound scanners are used for tasks as diverse as examining unborn babies and searching for cracks in the fabric of aircraft. They work by sending out pulses of high-frequency sound and then interpreting the reflections as images. To do all this, though, you need a device called a transducer. Read More
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Eruptions continued at the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland on Tuesday as a plume of smoke headed toward Britain, causing flight disruptions and stoking fears of a repeat of an eruption last year at another Icelandic volcano. “The low-level winds are … blowing strongly towards the UK,” said Peitur Arason of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, as British
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The council is proposing planning changes that would introduce tighter restrictions for building on rural land, with permits required to build on anything less than 250 hectares. The council says the scheme aims to protect agricultural land but the Victorian Government has vowed to block the changes in Parliament because it believes the 250 hectare limit
