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Written by Jessica Wyland
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 For much of Idaho, the Snake River is a lifeblood. The 1,040 mile tributary
of the Columbia River provides water for drinking, irrigating, and
generating approximately 50 percent of the state’s energy through
hydropower. The Snake River flows from Yellowstone National Park
through a series of mountain ranges, canyons, and plains in Wyoming,
Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. For Idaho Power Company, owner and
operator of 17 hydroelectric power plants, preservation of the river is
of utmost importance.
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Focusing on the Baltic Sea Region the
project "ASTRA - Developing Policies and Adaptation Strategies
to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region" assessed the
regional impacts of climate change impacts and developed adequate
adaptation strategies and policy recommendations together with
relevant stakeholders. The ASTRA consortium consisted of research
institutes, regional and local planning authorities around the Baltic
Sea. The project has been co-financed by the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF) through the INTERREG IIIB Baltic Sea
Programme from 2005-2007.
Autodesk is pushing the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into areas outside of simply buildings. The company describes BIM as an integrated process that coordinates reliable information about a project through all phases of design and construction, and they see increasing opportunity for the application of the BIM approach in the civil engineering space.
In
the most densely populated area of the Netherlands, the city of
Amsterdam undertook the monumental challenge of designing a community
for 45,000 inhabitants on 495 hectares of nonexistent land. Creating
a new landmass by reclaiming seven islands from dredged sand in
IJmeer, a lake on Amsterdam’s east side, residents with a fondness
for waterfront property will have their choice of custom homes or
high-rise apartments.
We can’t understand or manage what we can’t observe, measure and describe. To advance the human project of environmental learning and management that we began millennia ago using only our minds, our cultures and our naked senses, today we also supply ourselves with data from many kinds of sensor systems.