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Security-Environment Linkages Explored in Europe Talks
April 12, 2008 The intersection of security and environment issues was the focus of two talks given in Europe recently by CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy. In Athens April 9 Levy addressed an audience of forty military and diplomatic officials from ...
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climate-change, environmental-security
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First Steps Taken to Implement GEO Biodiversity Observation Network
April 10, 2008 A workshop to further plan the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) was held in Berlin/Potsdam April 810 and attended by Alex de Sherbinin, Deputy Manager of SEDAC http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/. GEOBON is envisioned ...
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biodiversity, data
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New Human Footprint Data Now Available
Date: March 17, 2008 CIESIN has released an updated version of The Human Footprint, a data set that aims to measure the extent of human influence on the Earth's surface. First produced in 2002 by CIESIN with the Wildlife Conservation Society http://www.wcs.org ...
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population, sedac, conservation, land-use
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International Studies Scholars Gather at San Francisco Conference
March 29, 2008 CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy participated in a number of panels at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) meeting in San Francisco March 2528. He chaired a panel on multilateral governance in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian ...
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water, conflict, governance
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New Article Highlights Value of Subnational-Level Data in Measuring Poverty
March 25, 2008 The creation and significance of subnational infant mortality data developed by CIESIN are the focus of a new article published in the journal Population, Space, and Place. Authored by former CIESIN staff Adam Storeygard and Deborah Balk, with CIESIN deputy director ...
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poverty, health, population, sedac
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CIESIN Attends UN Climate Change Expert Meeting
March 18, 2008 CIESIN senior staff associate Alex de Sherbinin participated in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Expert Group Meeting on socioeconomic information under the Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate ...
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un, climate, socioeconomics
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New Human Footprint Data Now Available
March 17, 2008 CIESIN has released an updated version of The Human Footprint, a data set that aims to measure the extent of human influence on the Earth's surface. First produced in 2002 by CIESIN with the Wildlife Conservation Society http://www.wcs.org/, this new ...
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sedac, conservation, population, data
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Cross-Disciplinary Delegation from P.R. China Visits CIESIN, Columbia
March 3, 2008 !chinadelegationedited.jpg align=left! A delegation of nine Chinese academics from the Northwest University for Nationalities in Lanzhou, People's Republic of China, visited CIESIN on Friday, February 29. The group, headed by Zhao De'an, vice president of the university ...
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Climate Change Impacts and Data Discussed in Trinidad
February 28, 2008 The University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, was the site of two international meetings held this week, in which CIESIN director Robert Chen and geographic information specialist Greg Yetman participated actively. The Tenth International ...
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