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GEO-4 - 25 October 2007 was the official launch of UNEP's 4th Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4) at the United Nations Headquarters, New York .
ISRIC - World Soil Information is the international collaborating institute of UNEP and for the GEO4 report ISRIC coordinated the editing of Chapter 3 - Land (Oct. 2007) more … |
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WDC - The WDC for Soils pages have been updated. Our digital datasets are being characterized in the World Data Centers Portal of the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) using uniform metadata (Sept . 2007) more … |
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ISRIC Library - Duplicate books have been donated to the Royal University of Agriculture in Cambodia as a sequel to the Cambodia project (July 2007) |
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Publication - The Report of Activities for 2006 lists highlights of the year in our three fields of activity - education and public information under the World Soil Museum; soil standards, documentation and dissemination under the World Data Centre for Soils; and applied research on land and water resources and their management (June 2007) |
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Production of Soil Atlas - ISRIC has embarked, in collaboration with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the European Soil Bureau Network, FAO and the African Soil Science Society, on the production of a Soil Atlas of Africa (May 2007) more ... |
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New dataset - A harmonized set of soil parameter estimates been developed for Central Africa, comprising Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, using a 1:2 million scale Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER) and taxotransfer procedures based on soil profiles held in the WISE database (May 2007) more ...
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New dataset - Primary SOTER database for the DR of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi at an average scale of 1:2 M (SOTERCAF) (May 2007) more ...
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ISRIC - World Soil Information Database – The data handling system has been improved in collaboration with Wageningen UR Library. New features include: geographic searches using Google maps; on-line access to over 3500 zoomable and down-loadable maps; a selection of PDFs on-line; and a list of links related to soil science (May 2007) more … |
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Publication - This special issue on 'Advances in airborne electromagnetics and remote sensing in agro-ecosystems' of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation includes papers presented at a symposium hosted by ISRIC–World Soil Information in Wageningen in 2004 (Apr. 2007) |
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Publication - This special issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment present findings of the Global Environment Facility co-financed project ‘Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks and change at national scale’, in which ISRIC–World Soil Information was a partner (Apr. 2007) |
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Project - Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land (DESIRE) - EU-funded project, co-ordinated by Alterra, aimed at establishing promising alternative land use and management conservation strategies in selected degradation and desertification hotspots around the world (Jan. 2007) |
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ISRIC Library - Duplicate books have been donated to the Agronomy Library of the National University at Butare in the framework of the NUFFIC Rwanda Project (Jan. 2007) more ... |
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Collaboration Agreement - ISRIC - World Soil Information and JRC-IES - Institute for Environment and Sustainability signed a Collaborative Agreement (Dec. 2006) |
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Project Initiative - A global consortium is working on a proposal towards the Global Digital Soil Properties Map (Dec. 2006) more …
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ISRIC Publications - We are gradually scanning our publications to make them available on-line in PDF format. Recent additions include our Technical Papers and Soil Briefs describing soils held in our World Soil Reference Collection (ISIS) (Nov. 2006)
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Q&A Services - Knowledge of information sources is a vital part of an effective question and answer service. Partners from CTA's ACP Question-And-Answer Service visited our premises to be informed about ISRIC's soil resources and Q&A services (Oct. 2006) more ...
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Appointment - Dr Alfred Hartemink has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Geoderma. He has been editorial board member since 1998 and book review editor of the journal since 1999 (Sept. 2006).
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Publication - Proceedings of inception workshop on improved natural resource management held in Rangamati, Bangladesh (Sept. 2006) more ...
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Project - Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement (GLADA) - Project, co-ordinated by ISRIC and Wageningen UR Centre for Geo Information, carried out for the GEF/UNEP/FAO project on Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (July 2006) |
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Publication - World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2006 (WRB): A framework for international classification, correlation and communication (July 2006) PDF
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Publication - Invasion of Piper aduncum in the shifting cultivation systems of Papua New Guinea (June 2006) more ...
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ISRIC's 40th anniversary - Seminar on World Soil Issues and Sustainable Development: an agenda for action (9 March 2006) more ...
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ISRIC African and Asian Soil Maps on-line - In a joint project with the EU Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IES) in Italy, the digitalization of African, Asian, North American, Latin American, Caribbean, and European Soil Maps under the EuDASM (European Digital Archive of Soil Maps) programme has been completed and put on-line. A DVD with the maps has been released during the 7th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification at Nairobi, Kenya (October 2005).
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ISRIC and the Year of Planet Earth - The International Union of Geosciences (IUGS) has taken the initiative to proclaim an International Year of Planet Earth 2007 - 2008 with the subtitle Earth Sciences for Society. It will focus on the relationship between humankind and Planet Earth, and show that geoscientists are key players in creating a balanced, sustainable future for both. The International Year will be proclaimed through the United Nations. It has also been supported by IUGS's sister organisations, including the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). A special brochure has been devoted to soils: “Soil – Earth's living skin” PDF
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Project - Green Water Credits - Proof-of-concept of a global mechanism to pay rainfed land users for water management activities, supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (July 2005) |
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ISRIC and IFAD presented a side event at the FAO, Netherlands conference "Water for Food and Ecosystems: Make it happen!" (January 2005) more ...
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Special collections - ISRIC – World Soil Information now houses the Jongerius – Stiboka collection (20 August 2004), comprising some 6 000 thin sections and blocks mainly from the Dutch and European soils and sediments. The collection has been established by the late A. Jongerius, former Head of the Department of Micropedology and Mineralogy of the Dutch Soil Survey Institute (Stiboka, Wageningen) and further expanded by M. Kooistra. Together with ISRIC’s other micromorphological collections, it provides an enormous resource for microscopical studies of soils from around the world.
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