NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened a new open, online, intermediate webinar series: Transforming Earth Observation (EO) Data into Building Infrastructure Data Sets for Disaster Risk Modeling. This three-part training, presented in English and Spanish, is open to the public and will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modeling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment.  We will also present examples applying the techniques to applications related to flood risk assessment, climate adaptation, and earthquake modeling.

En septiembre de 2022, Sierra Leona promulgó leyes sin precedentes relacionadas con la tierra, el clima y el desarrollo sostenible. Esta nueva ley transforma la capacidad de las comunidades para proteger sus derechos sobre la tierra y buscar el desarrollo sostenible. En este seminario web se analizarán los procesos, las experiencias, los retos y el contexto de esta nueva ley, destacando las nuevas responsabilidades en Sierra Leona.

This two-part webinar series will provide an overview of resources for choosing climate projection sets for mitigation, adaptation, and risk management applications.

Healthy ecosystems provide essential pieces of daily life for humans such as clean water, food, medicines, carbon sequestration, protection against extreme weather, and much more. Natural capital accounting recognizes that these assets must be maintained, managed, and measured for critical decision-making activities.

First International Forum on Urban-Rural Linkages: “Rural revitalization through innovation and valorization”

​The Land & Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town commissioned the vivid documentary film This Land as a way for rural people to bring the untold story of their struggle for rights and accountability on communal land into urban forums of legislative, political and corporate decision-making.

Hábitat III es la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre vivienda y desarrollo urbano sostenible que tendrá lugar en Quito, Ecuador, del 17 - 20 de octubre de de 2016.