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La Comisión Europea ha puesto en marcha el Observatorio Rural al que se comprometió cuando lanzó la comunicación Visión a largo plazo para las zonas rurales, dentro de las políticas comunitarias para hacer frente al reto demográfico y la lucha contra la despoblación, que aprobó la semana pasada el Parlamento Europeo. El Observatorio Rural es ...

El acuerdo provisional que prohibirá a los países de la Unión Europea (UE) la importación de productos provenientes de áreas deforestadas empezó a levantar ampollas en Brasil, donde es visto como una decisión unilateral que busca levantar barreras comerciales. Siete productos (aceite de palma, ganado, soja, café, cacao, madera y caucho) y derivados como la ...

The European Association of Aerial Surveying Industries (EAASI) has recently joined EUROGI, the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information. Established in 1994, EUROGI represents the needs of all organizations in Europe that generate and use geographic information. EUROGI aims to facilitate value creation from location-based information for a sustainable, prosperous and cohesive Europe. The organization ...

Open Maps For Europe has today announced that official geospatial data from four additional countries is included in the project’s third and final release. North Macedonia and Switzerland have contributed multi-themed topographic open data for 1:250 000 scale EuroRegionalMap, with Denmark and Slovenia adding their data to the Cadastral Index Map prototype. North Macedonia has ...

A new paper in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning by two Concordia researchers argues that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses open-source data to compare changes in and levels of urban sprawl ...

ESA’s Ariane 6 launch vehicle, on which the deployment of the EU’s Galileo GNSS satellite constellation now depends, has taken another step towards first flight. A fresh series of hot fire tests of the rocket’s upper stage and all-new Vinci engine is now underway at Germany’s DLR center for engine and stage testing in Lampoldshausen. ...