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13/02/2017

Transport infrastructure is so widespread in Europe that half of the land area is within 1.5 kilometres (km) of paved roads and railway lines, researchers have calculated. The researchers found that in Spain, transport infrastructure has an impact...

13/02/2017

Following the Scientific Forum on Observing the Evolution of Coastal Zones by Satellite Remote Sensing, organized by the International Space Science Institute on 11 and 12 October 2016 in Bern, a white paper was published.This document, entitled...

30/01/2017

SIDE for Sustainable Development and Environment Information System is a documentary database, fed by a network in the regional and central administrations, that makes available to the general public documents produced or held by the ministry in the...

30/01/2017

The Global Risks Report 2017 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 30 prevalent global risks as well as 13 underlying trends that could amplify them or alter the interconnections between them over a...

09/01/2017

On 12 December, the European Commission launched a new tool for mapping surface waters, which is valuable for policy.The Global water surface explorer is based on 3 million satellite images collected over the last 32 years. Its maps were developed...

09/01/2017

The JRC soil team will participate (as convener, organizer or keynote speaker) in EGU and invites you in the following sessions:European Environmental Policies and SustainabilityEnvironment science, public perception, stakeholders and policy...

09/01/2017

4 Partners of INSPIRATION were represented at the Second Global Soil Security in Paris.INSPIRATION was presented by Marie-Christine Dictor with a presentation entitled “Which R&D needs for a sustainable soil management and land use?”...

09/01/2017

The third newsletter of INSPIRATION is now available It gives update of the project progress.Direct access to the newsletter 

05/12/2016

The aim of LUCAS (Land Use/land Cover Area frame Survey) Soil Component was to create a harmonised and comparable dataset of physical and chemical parameters of topsoil at the EU.In 2015, the Topsoil Survey was repeated in the same set of points of...

21/11/2016

BRGM has participated to the French multi-actors workshop held in Paris the 6th of October. Similar workshops have been organised in 4 others EU countries (Germany, Austria, denmark and Ireland).UBA as INSPIRATION coordinator was also invited to...

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