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The United States currently spends more than $200 million per year on the Flood Map Modernization program. The report shares the results of a study made by the National Academies at Congress's...More

Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession

The field of ecological restoration is a rapidly growing discipline that encompasses a wide range of activities and brings together practitioners and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds...More

Connectivity Conservation (Conservation Biology)

One of the biggest threats to the survival of many plant and animal species is the destruction or fragmentation of their natural habitats. The conservation of landscape connections, where...More

At Loggerheads?: Agricultural Expansion, Poverty Reduction, And Environment in the Tropical Forests (World Bank Policy Research Report)

Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses. At...More

Principles of Geographical Information Systems (Spatial Information Systems)

This new edition of the best-selling Principles of Geographic Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment has been completely revised and brought up to date. Using real world examples this...More

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Forestry and Natural Resources Management

Environmental Hazards : Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

Covers all major rapid-onset events (natural, human, or technological in origin) which directly threaten human life on a community scale. Combining insights from both the natural and social...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.