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 Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.
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 When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments. |
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 Autodesk University 2009 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-3. This year's event attracted roughly 6,000 people to the live event, and 16,000 to a simultaneous online broadcast of the content. The event theme, "Learn. Connect. Explore," highlights some of the advantages of the in-person experience, but with the economic and environmental benefits, the online version is likely to grow in subsequent years. With economic pain widespread among the AEC community, the emphasis was placed on the benefits of innovation and for a revamped design/build process that moves us further toward integrated design. |
| Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event |
 The TCU Place conference hall in the center of Saskatoon, Canada was the location of the Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event held November 18 and 19. With about 1200 leading farm producers from across the Canadian prairies in attendance, this year's theme was 'Harvest A World of Ideas.' |
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 The growing amount of plastic debris in the world’s oceans and waterways has many scientists and anti pollution activists very concerned. The Great Pacific Garbage patch, a gyre in the Pacific Ocean that is capturing plastic debris and is growing in size has provided a rallying cry for activists that is gaining momentum. Drew Stephens, the founder of the GIS Institute, has long been involved in the application of GIS for conservation, and that work has led to his participation on the Think Beyond Plastic expedition in California that recently took place. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Stephens about the purpose and outcome of this trip as well as the benefits of applying more geospatial analysis to this problem.
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| Empowering Students Using GIS |
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 ESRI has always invested heavily into GIS education. That has included both the toolset as well as the study of geographic information as a science. The results have been impressive, not only in terms of financial growth for the company but the numerous research efforts, education events, books published and conference-workshops. Building GIS capacity and community is truly an ESRI goal. Dr. Michael Gould has recently been hired as Director of Education, Industry Solutions for ESRI. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviews him on a number of GIS education related topics.
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6th Intl Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Jan 5-7, Cuenca, Ecuador
GeoDesign Summit, Jan. 6-8, Redlands, Calif.
Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium
All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland
Remote Sensing And Geo-Information For Environmental Emergencies, Feb. 2, Torino, Italy
Imagina, Feb. 3-5, Monaco
SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas
ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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The Works: Anatomy of a City (2007)
By Kate Ascher
The book combines text, maps, and other graphics to tell the story of the systems that keep New York City running smoothly
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The Smart Growth Manual (2009)
By Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon
This resource not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but is a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building).
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By Steven Franklin
This book emphasizes transdisciplinary collaboration, technological innovations, and new applications in this emerging field. Landmark case studies and illustrative examples of best practices in biodiversity and wildlife management at multiple scales are featured.
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