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By: Anthony King
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: UC San Diego News Center
Researchers at University of California San Diego’s Big Pixel Initiative are using unique tools to map urban areas around the globe, potentially revolutionizing large-scale analysis of urbanization. Using Google Earth…
Date: 09 septembre 2016
Source: Radio-Canada
Les terres vierges disparaissent de la surface de la Terre à un rythme alarmant, soulignent des chercheurs dans une étude parue jeudi. Au moins 10 % des régions sauvages, soit deux fois la superficie de l'Alaska, ont été perdues au cours des deux…
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Economy Lead
Economic growth is not enough to save those threatened daily with starvation. Governments need to tailor policies and investments to transform rural areas in developing countries if they want to eliminate poverty, according to a new global study…
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Campaigners and human rights lawyers said the move reflects increasing global recognition of the severity of environmental crime
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The International Criminal…
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Citiscope
Community groups want to show next month’s conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
This story is part of an occasional series on the General Assembly of Partners (GAP), the main vehicle for civil society to…
Date: 19 septembre 2016
Source: Observatoire des multinationales
Par Olivier Petitjean
La Cour pénale internationale vient d’ouvrir la porte à des poursuites contre des individus et des gouvernements pour des crimes relatifs aux ressources naturelles et à l’accaparement des terres. Une…
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land
For more information, please contact: Neil Sorensen at +33641668648 or neil.sorensen@landportal.info
GRONINGEN (21 September, 2016) — Land has become a key issue on the global…
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land
For more information, please contact: Neil Sorensen at +33641668648 or neil.sorensen@landportal.info
GRONINGEN (21 September, 2016) — Land has become a key issue on the global…
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land
For more information, please contact: Neil Sorensen at +33641668648 or neil.sorensen@landportal.info
GRONINGEN (21 September, 2016) — Land has become a key issue on the global…
Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land
For more information, please contact: Neil Sorensen at +33641668648 or neil.sorensen@landportal.info
GRONINGEN (21 September, 2016) — Land has become a key issue on the global…
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope
The Habitat III strategy ‘doesn’t go far enough on financing’, one observer noted at an event on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.
UNITED NATIONS — Next month, 193 countries are set to sign on to a new 20-year urbanization…
By: Jonathan Kinghorn
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Property Casualty 360
There is a growing awareness that good land use and planning can do much to reduce the impact of natural catastrophes.
Communities that understand the risks they face and mitigate those risks become resilient and can…