How many times have you heard peo­ple say, “it’s a per­son­nel, organ­i­sa­tional or struc­tural prob­lem” as they began to run into a wall in terms of advanc­ing a project more quickly or encoun­tered resis­tance, some­times even fail­ure? Many of us have expe­ri­enced this, and, the reac­tions can also be dif­fer­ent with some walk­ing away, oth­ers hard­en­ing their posi­tion while oth­ers scratch their head and set about to come at the con­flict using an alter­nate approach.
-- Jeff Thurston, editor - Europe, Middle East and Africa

1. EEPSEA Southeast Asia - Established in 1993, EEPSEA supports training and research in environmental & resource economics.
2. KEPLER - image understanding for remote sensing applications.
   
3. OpenLayers - a gallery of web mapping applications.
4. Sustainable Cities - website promoting sustainable cities across Europe and around the globe.
5. Ecotecture - a journal about eco-design.

1. Breathing Earth - A simulation of emissions, birth rate and death rate.
2. 4D Cityscape Time Puzzle - 3D puzzles where you build city skylines chronologically.
3. IntelligentGIS - A GIS that incorporates different artificial intelligence tecniques for knowledge representation and processing.
4. 5Gyres - A site to help people understand plastic marine pollution.
5. Conservation Maven - An online hub for the conservation community.

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CRC Forestry - website of the Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, an Australian national research consortium with headquarters in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Need for Collaboration, a feature in Planetizen that touts a redefined role for the design professional.

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.

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.

EVENTS The First GeoDesign Summit Promises a New Approach The inaugural GeoDesign Summit took place in Redlands, Calif. from Jan. 6-8. The invite-only gathering of roughly 250 people included well-connected representatives from academia, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and planning. The purpose of the event was to outline a new geospatial approach that is being called GeoDesign 4th International Conference - Earth from Space Over 500 participants from Russia, CIS and foreign countries gathered at the 4th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” convened on December 1-3, 2009 at the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” recreation centre of the RF President Administration.

HEADLINE NEWS ISRO to Launch Cartosat-2B in March National Geographic Society Honours Frontenac Biosphere KAA Calls for Proper Planning Around Airport Kilometer Tax is 'meglomaniac': Telegraaf The Power, Glory and Controversy Galileo Space Navigation System to be Ready in 2014 Land Markets and the Modern Economy Long Drought Ahead From Global Warming, Study Says Canby: New Map Tech Shows City with All Its Faults OpenStreetMap Attracts 200,000 Volunteers Nigeria - Delta State Okays Seven New Oil Pipelines - Commissioner OGC seeks Input on Next Version of CityGML DIRECTV and Panasonic Bring 3D Home UK Supporting Wildlife and Conservation During the International Year of Biodiversity Austrian EVN Builds Solar Power Plant in Bulgaria

CALENDAR Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium Coastal Futures,Jan. 20-21, London, UK All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland GIS Ostrava 2010, Jan. 25-27, Czech Republic 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 EuroCOW 2010, Feb. 10-12, Barcelona, Spain ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C. 5th Intl Conf on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage, Feb. 22-24, Vienna, Austria

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