Institutional impediments to the implementation of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project : the case of the Free State government
Development strategy ; Free State ; Nature conservation ; Planning ; Project ; Regional development ; South Africa ; Tourism
Project and demonstrates through detailed analysis of the inner-working of a provincial government department, the many obstacles this tier of government places in the way of the successful implementation of the project. - (AJC)
Cleveland ; Demography ; Family structure ; Household ; Methodology ; Ohio ; Population projection ; United States of America ; Urban population
Etude de la projection simultanée de la population et des ménages à l'échelle d'une agglomération urbaine, sous des containtes de vraisemblance. Une spécification du marché du logement est développée comme condition de vraisemblance à l'encontre des
A pilot project on the potential contribution of palm-mat geotextiles to soil conservation
In this pilot project, the AA. investigate the feasibility of employing palm-mat geotextiles as a potential soil conservation technique. Investigations were conducted at the Hilton Experimental Site, east Shropshire, UK, within the southern section
L'Institut Géographique National belge (IGN-B) a construit un nouveau système de référence géodésique pour la Belgique (BeRef) en utilisant les techniques de la géodésie spatiale ; à cet effet, l'IGN propose l'adoption d'une nouvelle projection
The CONSPACE project was launched in 2003 as a part of the Interreg IIIB Cadses Operational Program with an ambition to create a macro region that could act as a counter balance to spatial polarization in the European Union. The project aims
planning issues on the regional (CONSPACE) and subregional (project partners) level. - (BJ)
Demographic Atlas of Albania : pilot project for a National Atlas Information System in a South East European transformation country
One decade after Albania's political turnaround in 1990, a GIS-based information system has been developed and implemented within the scope of a joint DAAD-Stability Pact Research and Development project with geographical institutions in Albania
, Kosova and Germany. A major objective of this project is to provide up-to-date, easy-to-access information on the demographic situation and developments in Albania based on the latest census data and other information. To process and visualise statistical
. In the framework of this spirit od pan-European cooperation new products have been developed and common projects have been initiated. A leading role is being played by EuroGeographics as successor of CERCO on one hand and by the European Union on the other hand
subsidizing cross border projects financially. As a key project the European Parliament agreed the INSPIRE-project in 2005. - (IfL)
Carte ; Carte au 1 : 1 000 000e ; Carte du monde ; Carte internationale ; Géopolitique ; Histoire de la cartographie ; Projection cartographique ; Siècle 20
Geopolitics ; History of cartography ; Map ; Map projection ; Twentieth Century
Problèmes rencontrés pour élaborer une carte mondiale au 1 : 1 000 000e en utilisant des projections normalisées avec des symboles et conventions communs. La première a été proposée par A. Penck au début des années 1890. Malgré des pourparlers
, délais et compromis interminables, le projet IMW s'est poursuivi jusqu'au milieu du 20e siècle. Il a été abandonné dans les années 1970. Etude de la réactivation de ces efforts, dans la forme du Global Mapping Project (GMP). Première version publiée en
Past hydrological events related to understanding global change : an ICSU research project
Climatic change ; Global change ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeohydrology ; Project ; Research ; Research technique
each contributed results from their specific time and spatial scales in integrated research collaboration. Relevant research conclusions have been combined and a research project undertaken. A provisional protocol for use of past hydrological events
The A. presents an analysis of the LandCare project in terms of, first, the effectiveness of the land care activities in addressing land degradation problems and, second, the role of the land care project in reinforcing a catchment ethic that can
be applied within an integrated catchment management framework. The paper reflects on the role that the Land Care project has played in developing the effectiveness of the Catchment Forum as a body through which broader integrated catchment management can
In this volume the results of a research project between geographers from the Humboldt-University (Berlin) and the Eötvös Lorand University (Budapest) are presented. The project has focused on four central questions : How have the spatial structures
The A. summarises how new methods of cartography could serve the geographical science not only in the field of description. Projects of the Geographical Research Institute illustrate how the development of digital mapping can be adopted
Data bank ; Europe ; Network ; Place names ; Project
. The EuroGeoNames project is intended to tackle this problem and designed to establish, in cooperation with the responsible national surveying and cadastral authorities of the European countries involved, an information network for official, multilingual geographic
The model project of the Saxonian Westerzgebirge contains therefore 27 cities and communi-ties of the rural districts Aue-Schwarzenberg, Vogtlandkreis, Stollberg und Annaberg. It is the most important aim of the model project to find new ways