Roads data is critical to planning and development of rural transportation in developing countries, where better transportation systems can help improve livelihoods.
The Social Process Diagram published in 1992 was an attempt to map out the key systems and interactions among systems that were seen as underpinning the human drivers of global environmental change.
An analysis of coastal wetlands loss from sea level rise that was conducted for the Ramsar Convention's Scientific and Technical Review Panel provides estimates of wetland losses as a basis for identifying potential adaptation measures.
Based on a model used by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the map shows coastal areas likely to have been inundated by the storm surge resulting from Hurricane Sandy, in relationship to residential population.
The impact of climate variability on predominantly rain-fed agrarian economies can be seen in Tanzania, where GDP is closely tied to variations in rainfall.
This map shows the estimated number of people in 2010 living at different elevation levels across several Southern Asian countries. The database it's taken from lets users without specialized geospatial training or software compare populations in various environmental contexts in different countries.
