land use News
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Europe`s Largest Archive of Digital Historic Maps Now Available From Landmark Information Group
Landmark Information Group has firmly established itself on the map, boosting its portfolio of digital mapping and land data intelligence with the addition of nearly 450,000 Ordnance Survey maps. Landmark's historic database is now the largest archive of its kind in Europe, with one million map tiles. The additional maps include datasets that have previously not been available in a digital ...
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Development Gobbling Up New Jersey`s Open Space
TRENTON, New Jersey (ENS) - Using high-resolution aerial photographs, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, DEP, has created a new snapshot of New Jersey's landscape, comparing the results with data from prior years. The results indicate that New Jersey is losing open space at the rate of 15,000 acres a year, roughly the same loss in one year reported during the entire 10 year ...
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New framework to assess brownfield development potential
Researchers have proposed a new framework to assess the potential for redeveloping large contaminated brownfield sites. The framework applies a range of spatial assessment methods to analyse remediation costs, economic value and the sustainability of different land-use types, and to recommend suitably mixed land-use options for redevelopment. Redeveloping brownfields can address health, ...
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Push for soil indicators to help monitor SDGs
A group of land and soil specialists has proposed three indicators to measure land use and soil health that they say could help the UN monitor its future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN's Millennium Development Goals, which expire this year, include one indicator referring directly to land use (the proportion of land area covered by forest) and none related to soil quality. But ...
By SciDev.Net
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New `Historic` Promap Release
Landmark Information Group has made significant enhancements to its industry renowned and market leading mapping tool, Promap The new and improved Promap, which provides 18,000 property professionals with immediate online access to Ordnance Survey historical mapping and aerial photography, now includes the most comprehensive set of Ordnance Survey historical maps dating from the 1840's, ...
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EPA seeks public input on interim guidance for dioxins in soil cleanup goals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is seeking public comment on draft interim preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) for cleanup of dioxins in soil. The announcement fulfills a commitment by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to announce interim cleanup goals by the end of 2009. Dioxins are contaminants that are very widespread in the environment that have been of ...
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Rio+20 should make sustainable land use a top priority
World leaders must promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Severe droughts in Africa are a stark reminder of global unfairness. About 13 million people still struggle to have enough food in the Horn of Africa, and about the same number, most of them children, suffer from hunger in the Sahel region, which ...
By SciDev.Net
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IPCC authors meet in Colombia for final stages of Climate Change and Land report
GENEVA, Feb 5 –Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors will meet in Cali, Colombia, on 11-15 February 2019 to make final preparations for the special report on Climate Change and Land to be released later this year. Around 125 authors and IPCC Bureau members from about 45 countries will come together in Cali for their Fourth Lead Author Meeting to start work on preparing a ...
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Land use affects potential health risks of cadmium and lead soil contaminants
Exposure to polluted soil can affect human health, but the risk may vary depending on the soil type. A recent study has shown that the differing amounts of cadmium and lead that can be dissolved in the human digestive system can be predicted for contaminated agricultural, urban and woody habitat soils using a model. Its authors suggest this is a useful method for assessing the risks of ...
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EPA to provide community update on Navassa site cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) together with the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources (NCDENR) and the Multistate Environmental Response Trust will host a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Navassa to provide an update on the EPA-led cleanup of the Kerr McGee Superfund Site. EPA will provide an overview of the site contamination, review the current sampling ...
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B.C. proposes changes to organic recycling regulations
September 10th, 2018 – The British Columbia government is proposing changes to the province’s Organic Matter Recycling Regulation. The government says the changes will “support the processing of organic waste, which will reduce the burden on landfills, and give transparency and clarity to British Columbians who are affected by composting and land used for this purpose.” An ...
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Sustainability commitments of peat-heavy industry
In Southeast Asia about 25% of plantations are currently on peat and some companies have more than 75% of their plantations on these carbon rich soils. But an increasing number of palm oil and pulp wood producing giants are announcing their commitments to no deforestation and no peatland conversion. What are their real intentions for peatlands? Draining peatlands for palm oil and pulp wood ...
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Clean-up plan finalized for Oklahoma superfund site
The US Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with the State of Oklahoma Environmental Secretary, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, and the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, has completed the final cleanup plan for the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Components of the cleanup plan include: (1) funding for the voluntary relocation of residents and businesses ...
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Guidelines for combating soil erosion and desertification with plants
A set of guidelines has been developed to reduce soil erosion by planting vegetation in desertification hotspots.Farmers and policymakers can use the guidelines to identify the most suitable places to plant vegetation in the channels where water and sediment move through the landscape. Land degradation through desertification typically occurs in vulnerable, semi-dry areas. As a result of ...
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EPA removes nearly 2,000 acres of El Toro site from Superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week deleted more than 1,900 acres of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine, Calif. from the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Hazardous wastes at this major portion of the site were cleaned up through activities that included soil sampling and excavation. To date, the Navy has spent approximately $165 million on the ...
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ADB provides $2m grant to combat land degradation, climate change woes
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $2 million grant for the formulation, adoption and implementation of land degradation policies and strategies and to reduce the vulnerability to climate change of target developing member countries. The 12th Agriculture and Natural Resources Research at International Agricultural Research Centers is estimated to cost $2.863 million. Syria-based ...
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EPA Announces $600,000 in Brownfields Tribal Assistance Grants
(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded two grants totaling $600,000 to help Native American tribes redevelop and return contaminated lands to productive use. 'We are pleased to help provide this important training and technical assistance to tribes,' said Susan Bodine, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. 'This assistance ...
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Geostatistics regains interest in the characterization of chemical soil pollutions
To evaluate the pollution impact, such characterization is usually based on various data that should be interpreted and analyzed with an estimation of related uncertainties. Geostatistics has been suitably applied in this framework for about fifteen years. Several Ph.D. theses have been dedicated to the subject, both for chemical and radiological pollution (see for instance this article in ...
By Geovariances
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Fighting climate change with grasslands
Grasslands have vast untapped potential to mitigate climate change by absorbing and storing CO2, according to a new report by FAO. Pastures and rangelands represent a carbon sink that could be greater than forests if properly managed. Covering some 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land surface and accounting for 70 percent of its agricultural land, the world’s 3.4 billion ha of grasslands can ...
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Cleanup plan announced for iron horse park superfund site in Billerica, Mass.
EPA, with support from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, has decided on a sediment cleanup and groundwater monitoring action plan for the Iron Horse Park Superfund Site in Billerica, Mass. The approach is designed to protect public health and the environment at the site. As required under the Superfund law, EPA evaluated potential cleanup alternatives for addressing the ...
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