The Routeplanner project aims to provide a ‘systematic assessment’ of potential adaptation options to respond to climate change in the Netherlands in connection to spatial planning. The study is the result of a policy oriented project that took place between May and September 2006. The aim of the current study is to provide a ‘qualitative assessment’ of the direct and indirect effects of adaptation options and to provide an assessment of some of the costs and benefits of adaptation options.

De Dienst Basisregistraties (DBR) is verantwoordelijk voor het beheer en onderhoud van de basisregistratie percelen (BRP). DBR heeft Alterra gevraagd een kwaliteitsonderzoek uit te voeren naar de kwaliteitsaspecten juistheid, nauwkeurigheid, tijdigheid en volledigheid van de BRP. Het kwaliteitsonderzoek is uitgevoerd in zeven deelonderzoeken. Verificatie van de kwaliteit heeft plaatsgevonden op basis van veldbezoek, dossieronderzoek en vergelijking met beschikbare referentiebestanden.

LCA (levenscyclus-analyse) is een methode om de milieu-effecten van productie en gebruik van een object in kaart te brengen. In het artikel wordt getracht het landgebruik van een activiteit en het daarmee gepaard gaande verlies aan biodiversiteit te kwantificeren en mee te nemen in LCA-studies.Een en ander op mondiaal niveau en uitgewerkt voor verschillende soorten menselijke activiteiten (o.a. zandwinning in Europees landbouwgebied; bauxietwinning in Zuid-amerikaans tropisch bos)

NEED ASESSMENT OF PLAIN LAND ADIBASI or INDEGIENOUS PEOPLE

Geographical Location: Dinajpur and Thakurgaon District

Duration: 06-15 May 2017

Need Assessment by: SOLAR Program Team, CDA

Ref: CDA’s SOLAR Program, Budget line: 3.1.05, Fiscal year 2016-2017.

Supported by: Bread for the World, Germany.

In recent years, the competition of uses for scarce and highly valuable natural resources, and the frequency and severity of natural and technological disasters have increased, and this trend is likely to worsen in the years to come. In the Mediterranean area, especially in its Eastern part, the high human exploitation driven by different economic sectors and interests is resulting in intensive use of the land and its resources.

Bogotá, the rapidly growing center of an emerging economy in the northern part of South America, is located within a biodiversity hotspot in the tropical Andes. The surrounding mountains harbor the ecosystems Páramo and Bosque Altoandino whose high water retention capacity serves as a “natural water tower” for the city’s freshwater supply. Since Bogotá is steadily growing, the city spreads into its peri-urban area, thus threatening its proximal ecosystems.

Against the background of climate change, current and future provision of ecosystem services (ES) will also change. The recording of current provision potentials and its development in future is important for adapted regional planning. ES assessments are frequently carried out in the context of expert-based surveys, which have, however, revealed little information to date about uncertainties. We present a novel approach that combines the ES matrix assessment with the Delphi approach, confidence ratings, standardized confidence levels, and scenario assessment.

Today low-lying coastal areas around the world are threatened by climate change-related hazards. The identification of highly vulnerable coastal areas is of great importance for the development of coastal management plans. The purpose of this study is to assess the physical and social vulnerability of the Peloponnese (Greece) to coastal hazards. Two indices were estimated: The Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) and the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI).

Urban ecosystem services (ES) contribute to the compensation of negative effects caused by cities by means of, for example, reducing air pollution and providing cooling effects during the summer time. In this study, an approach is described that combines the regional biotope and land use data set, hemeroby and the accessibility of open space in order to assess the provision of urban ES. Hemeroby expresses the degree of naturalness of land use types and, therefore, provides a differentiated assessment of urban ES.

This paper introduces the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) for conducting needs assessments in land administration projects. Understanding the local context of what citizens, communities and organisations need remains a complex challenge yet fundamental to the success of land administration projects. To date, key methods of understanding and identifying local needs have been qualitative in nature with various strengths and limitations.

Barranquilla is known as a dynamically growing city in the Colombian Caribbean. Urbanisation induces land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the city and its hinterland affecting the region’s climate and biodiversity. This paper aims to identify the trends of land use and land cover changes in the hinterland of Barranquilla corresponding to 13 municipalities in the north of the Department Atlántico. Landsat TM/ETM/OLI imagery from 1985 to 2017 was used to map and analyse the spatio-temporal development of land use and land cover changes.

In recent years, the scientific interest for the economic and landscape impact of wind farms has increased. This paper presents a useful GIS tool that allows for helping policymakers and investors to identify promising areas for wind power generation as well as landscape impact and financial and economic sustainability of wind farms.