NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened a new open, online, intermediate webinar series: Transforming Earth Observation (EO) Data into Building Infrastructure Data Sets for Disaster Risk Modeling. This three-part training, presented in English and Spanish, is open to the public and will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modeling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment.  We will also present examples applying the techniques to applications related to flood risk assessment, climate adaptation, and earthquake modeling.

En septembre 2022, la Sierra Leone a promulgué des lois sans précédent relatives à la terre, au climat et au développement durable. Cette nouvelle loi transforme la capacité des communautés à protéger leurs droits fonciers et à poursuivre le développement durable. Ce webinaire abordera les processus, les expériences, les défis et le contexte de cette nouvelle loi, en soulignant les nouvelles responsabilités en Sierra Leone.

This two-part webinar series will provide an overview of resources for choosing climate projection sets for mitigation, adaptation, and risk management applications.

Healthy ecosystems provide essential pieces of daily life for humans such as clean water, food, medicines, carbon sequestration, protection against extreme weather, and much more. Natural capital accounting recognizes that these assets must be maintained, managed, and measured for critical decision-making activities.

First International Forum on Urban-Rural Linkages: “Rural revitalization through innovation and valorization”

​The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land into urban forums of legislative, political and corporate decision-making.