Environment and ICTs

Environmental Scenario Search Engine
Environmental Scenario Search Engine 21 September 2010

The main idea behind ESSE is a flexible, efficient and easy to use search engine for data mining in environmental data archives. The ESSE will act as a bridge between the questions the user needs to act of the environment and the data which describes it, allowing the user to query environmental data archives in human linguistic terms.

Climate Wizard
Climate Wizard 21 September 2010

Climate Wizard With ClimateWizard you can: * view historic temperature and rainfall maps for anywhere in the world * view state-of-the-art future predictions of temperature and rainfall around the world * view and download climate change maps in a few easy steps. ClimateWizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth. The first generation of this web-based program allows the user to choose a...

Strengthening Climate Resilience / Eldis Community
Strengthening Climate Resilience / Eldis Community 21 September 2010

Strengthening Climate Resilience (SCR) is a new DFID funded programme that aims to enhance the ability of governments and civil society organisations in developing countries to build the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change as part of their development work. In order to do this, the disaster risk management (DRM) community are being targeted as a starting point to encourage...

ClimatePrediction.net: The world's largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st century
ClimatePrediction.net: The world's largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st century 21 September 2010

Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth’s climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. To do this, the project asks volunteers around the world to give time on their computers, using BOINC software, which is also used by other projects, such as SETI. Climateprediction.net has harnessed more computing power and generated mo...

Polar View: Earth observation for Polar monitoring
Polar View: Earth observation for Polar monitoring 21 September 2010

Polar View is an earth observation (EO) or satellite remote-sensing program, focused on both the Arctic and the Antarctic. It promotes the utilization of satellites for public good and in support of public policy in the areas of sustainable economic development, marine safety, and the environment. Polar View services are designed to address a myriad of polar concerns on environmental protection...

Linking Climate Adaptation / Eldis Community
Linking Climate Adaptation / Eldis Community 21 September 2010

The Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Network is a community of over 900 practitioners, stakeholders, researchers and policy-makers exchanging information on climate adaptation research and practice around the globe via the Networks email list. This space on Eldis Community acts as an archive for messages sent to the network via the email list and as a document store. Membership of the Network i...

Eye on Earth
Eye on Earth 21 September 2010

Eye on Earth is a two-way communication platform on the environment which brings together scientific information with feedback and observations of millions of ordinary people. It is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Currently, it includes information on the water quality for more than 22.000 bathing sites throughout Europe. EyeOnEarth also ...

Climate Change Resource Guide
Climate Change Resource Guide 21 September 2010

The Climate Change Resource Guide provides easy structured access to an extensive collection of research and policy documents. All are editorially selected, summarised and available free to download in full text. Resource guides are intended to help you keep up to date with the latest in development research, policy and practice. The Climate Change Resource Guide offers: * a searchable library...

MarineMap: Decision support for marine spatial planning
MarineMap: Decision support for marine spatial planning 21 September 2010

MarineMap is a web-based decision support tool for open and participatory spatial planning in the marine environment. MarineMap offers a simple, flexible and powerful means of gathering expertise from resource managers, scientists, stakeholders and public in a process of collaborative decision making. MarineMap assists with the design of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) by allowing users to view o...

IGBP Climate-Change Index
IGBP Climate-Change Index 16 September 2010

IGBP Climate-Change Index was launched in Copenhagen, 9 December 2009, in order to help communicate global-change trends for the public and policymakers. It brings together key indicators of global change: carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice. The index gives an annual snapshot of how the planet’s complex systems – the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphe...

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