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Archive of additions (by date and top level category)

Janaury through March, 2000


March 28
Category I: sites by subject
Qualisteam
Multilingual banking and finance portal. Links to thousands of bank websites (with indication of internet banking services), forum, large banking bookstore. Links to stock exchanges and financial markets. 20000328
Ptolemy's Geography
Full text of Ptolemy's Geography, with maps (based on Ptolemy's coordinates), annotations and introduction, by Bill Thayer. 20000328
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Morocco)
Morocco, largest cities: 1. Casablanca (Ad-dar-el-Beida) / 2. Rabat / 3. Fès / 4. Marrakech / 5. Oujda
Morocco, government page: Le Premier Ministre
Morocco, government departments listing: Governments on the web: Morocco
Category IV: international organisations
World Conservation Union
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000430 3rd Annual National Nature Mapping Meeting - Front Royal, VA, USA
20001205 4th Int. workshop transportation planning and implementation: methodologies for developing countries [info:secreatriat]

March 27
Category I: sites by subject
Eric Riback's list of geography songs
Very long list of popular songs with references to geographical entities. These are mostly cities in the US, but here are also songs about states, rivers, mountains and cities and countries outside the US, from Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street to Billy Joel's Zanzibar. By Eric Riback, VA, USA. 20000327
Category II: sites by country/region
Canadian Information by subject
Extensive but basic listing of websites related to the geography and history of Canada. Arranged by Dewey decimal classification. By the National Library of Canada. 20000327
Resources for teaching and learning about Canadian geography
Links to resources on Canadian geography. Aimed at teachers, pupils and general public. Links to maps, weather, statistics, the Arctic, Nunavut, the environment etc. By M.D. Bennett at the Teaching & Learning About Canada Website. 20000327
Category V: professional organisations
United States - AAG Qualitative Research Specialty Group
Category VI: university deparments
United States - Radford, VA - Radford University - Department of Geography
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000512 Global ecology and information technology - San Francisco, CA, USA
20000802 NCGE 2000: agenda for the new century - Chicago, IL, USA
20000821 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference - Adelaide, Australia
20001111 Radical spaces and places - London, UK [info: Mike Sanders]
20001120 GPS in Forestry - Kelowna, BC, Canada

March 23
Category II: sites by region
Geography of The Netherlands
Metasite on geography of the Netherlands. Simple but effective listing of sites on geographically relevant aspects of the Netherlands. Strong is waterrelated and land-use subjects and with some bias towards the south of the country (Noord-Brabant and Limburg provinces). Maintaned by Theo van de Mortel at Raayland College, Venray, Netherlands 20000323
Category VIII: publishers
Franz Steiner Verlag

March 17
In the news: World Water Forum in The Hague (March 17-22) puts water crisis on international agenda
World Water Forum - The Hague, Netherlands
The site of the waterforum itself itself contains all information on the programme of the 6-day conference and fair. Several reports and the draft text of the Declaration of The Hague prepared for the ministerial meeting are available in PDF at the documentation page. The site also hold links to a subsite with the virtual forum, promising live broadcast of speeches etc, but this part did not function correctly at the time of review. 20000317
Category I: sites by subject
December 1999-February 2000 climate in Historical Perspective
This site puts the extremes of this winter in the Northern hemisphere in pespective. The warmest winter on record in the U.S. and one of the coldest and longest in Mongolia. Here you find maps and timeseries of global temperature anomalies for the past months as well as detailed global and regional analyses. By the (US) NOAA/National Climatic Data Center. 20000317
Category VIII: publishers
James Currey Publishers
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000407 Philosophy and the earth sciences - Denton, TX, USA
20000813 Ice-volcano interaction workshop - Reykjavik, Iceland

March 14
Category I: sites by subject

World Glacier Inventory [US mirror of the Swiss original]
Database of over 71,000 glaciers, available through WWW and FTP. Web access is easy using map navigation and ticking required variables. "Parameters within the inventory include: geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification of morphological type and moraines. The inventory entries are based upon a single observation in time and can be viewed as a "snapshot" of the glacier at this time. These data are collected and digitized by the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland" (from the self-description). 20000314
Category VI: university departments
United Kingdom - Keele - Keel University - School of Earth Sciences and Geography
Category VIII: publishers
International Books
Category XI: conferences, discussion lists etc.
20000321 Hydrology in Scotland, agenda for the 21st century - Dundee, UK
20000427 Iceland 2000 - Keele, UK
20000429 Modern and ancient ice-marginal land-systems - Keele, UK
20010323 Landscapes and politics - Edinburgh, UK

GEO
Brand new general geography discussion list in the Dutch language , aimed at the academic community as well as teachers and the general public in the Netherlands. To subscribe send a message to listserv@nic.surfnet.nl with the text "subscribe geo firstname lastname", without the quotes and inserting your own name. 20000314

March 13
Category I: sites by subject
Ecodelphi
Invitation to take part in an international study on criteria rating projects that aim at realising sustainable urban development. It focusses on questions such as  "what makes joint activities of local authorities and local businesses worthy to be called sustainability-supportive?" and "do such projects or programmes contribute to achieving sustainability" By means of an international Delphi study, to be conducted Mid March ­ Mid June 2000, criteria - that capture the relevance of projects dealing with sustainable development - will be developed. By the University of Bremen, Germany. 20000313

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
The WFAE brings together people studying soundscapes and tries to gain recognition for sound as an integral part of ecology and fosters the preservation of locally specific sounds. The site is a gateway to research, publications and actual soundscape files (using Real Audio or Quicktime plug-ins). 20000213
Centre for Urban History (Leicester, UK)
Category II: sites by country/region
Mapping Canada
Political history of Canada's borders 1700-present. Includes timeline and corresponding maps. By the Canadian Geographic magazine. 20000313
Census Geography
Geographical backgrounds, explanations and resources of the US Census. This page presents tools for mapping census data, factfinding services, boundary files for downloading, metropolitan area defintions etc. By the US Census Bureau. 20000313
Category IX: journals
Canadian Geographic
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000330 Sustainable Transport in the Baltic Sea Region Environmental Perspective - Gdansk, Poland
20000406 Towns, Cities and Competition: Inter- and Intra-Urban Rivalries - Bristol, UK
20000525 Creative city conference - Huddersfield, UK
20000611 8th International Conference on Central Asia & the Caucasus - Theran, Iran [info: IPIS secretariat]
20000911 International migration: new patterns, new theories - Nottingham, UK

March 9
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Hungary)
Hungary, capital city: Budapest
Hungary, largest cities: 1. Budapest / 2. Debrecen (in Hungarian) / 3. Miskolc / 4. Szeged / 5. Pécs
Hungary, government page: Prime Minister's Office

Hungary, government departments listing: Web sites associated with the prime minister's office
Rural Europe
Multilingual site focusing on policy for the rural regions of the European Union, especially the so-called Leader initiative subsidising local action groups and partnerships in rural regions. You'll find a newsletter, links to official documents, a simple regional database and picture collection, and links to national and regional initiatves. The site is mamaged by AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development), which monitors rural developments for the European Union. 20000309
Category V: professional organisations
International - Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IAE)
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys, meteorological services etc.
Hungary - Hungarian Geological Survey
Hungary - Hungarian Meteorological Service
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000405 Rural transport 2000 - Bailrigg (near Lancaster), UK
20000605 Rural 21 - Potsdam , Germany
20000621 6th International interdisciplinary conference on the environment - Montreal, QB, Canada
20000628 European rural policy at the crossroads, Aberdeen, UK

March 7
Category I: sites by subject

Global Forest Watch announcement at WRI
Initiative of the World Resources Institute to monitor the worlds forests condition using satellite imagery. The institute is increasingly worried about the state of the worlds forests, due to over logging, lack of reforestation and bad management in general. This WRI site holds a media kit and a link to the Global Forest Watch website that is unfortunately not working yet. 20000307
Creating a population pyramid in Excel
Online tutorial for creating simple population pyramids using MS Excel (or any other spreadsheet program). By James Koennicke and Amy Glasmeier, Penn State Univ, PA, USA. 20000307
Category II: sites by country/region
The last frontier forests: ecosystems and economies on the edge
The US based World Resources Institute has published this 1997 report on it website. It assesses the state of the world's frontier forest (defined as forests that are on the whole relatively undisturbed and big enough to maintain all of their biodiversity, including viable populations of the wide-ranging species associated with each forest type). The website holds all the data (by world region and country on frontier forest left, percentage threatened etc.). The are also well layed-out maps and comprehensive forest links for all regions and countries. Includes technical notes and links to forest news (maintained up to 1998). There is also a low quality scan of the report available from the WRI bookshop (click on 'read it'). 20000307
Category VI: university departments
Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong - Department of Geography and Geology
Category XI: conferences etc.
200011?? 8th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems - Washington, DC, USA
20001110 Nature of gender, gender of nature - Kiel, Germany
20010102 Royal Geographical Scoiety / Institue of Birtish Geographers Annual Conference 2001 - Plymouth, UK

March 6
Category I: sites by subject

Terrestrial impact craters
Short overview of craters formed by meteoroids, asteroid or comets colliding with planet earth. Contains handy list of some 13 craters (ranging form less than 1 klimoter to over 100 kilometers). One of the largest is the famous Yucatan crater formed by asteroid collision 65 million years ago. The impact was responsible for destroying much of the life on earth, including the dinosoaurs. With photographs. 20000306
Oceanography form the space shuttle
Space (shuttle) images of islands, coastlines, esturaries, meteorological features (winds, clouds, convestion), ewakes, pollution and wave types. The pictures are relatively small, but large high resolution files (up to 10 megabytes) are available for downloading. Pictures, mostly dating from the 1980s, come with short explanatory notes. By the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Office of Naval Research, United States Navy. 20000306
Category V: professional organisations
International - European Federation of Geologists (EFG)
Canada - Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists (CGPG)
Germany - Berufsverband Deutscher Geowissenschaftler e.V.
Hungary - A Magyarhoni földtani társulat honlapja (in Hungarian)
Ireland - Institute of Geologists of Ireland (IGI)
Netherlands - Koninklijk Nederlands Geologisch Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap (KNGMG) (in Dutch)
Slovenia - Slovenian Geological Society (SGD)
Spain - Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Geólogos de España (ICOG)
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys, meteorological services etc.
Denmark - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
Finland - Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)
France - Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRMG)
Netherlands - Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen (NITG) (in Dutch)
Slovenia - Geophysical Survey of Slovenia
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000711 1st International Professional Geology Conference - Alicante, Spain [info: Yolanda Ruiz-Pérez]
20001010 American Institute of Professional Geologists 2000 meeting - Milwaukee, WI, USA
Category XII: miscellaneous

U.S. State geography standards
1998 assessment of rigour of standards set by US states for geography education in K12 grades. Many states are a long way off the goals set out by US president Geogre Bush at the 1989 education summit in Charlotteville. At that time geography got recognition, along with history, English science and maths, as a crucial discipline in primary education. By Susan Munroe and Terry Smith for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. 20000306

March 3
Category I: sites by subject
Environmental Sustainability Index
Access to PDF file with proposal to develop the environmental sustainability index, an environmental performance tool. Presently it ranks some 50 countries. Presented at the february 2000 World Economic Forum. The developers aim to present the final product at the 2001 WEF meeting in Davos. By the Global Leaders of Tomorrow (GLT) Environment Task Force. 20000303
Category II: sites by country/region
Topozone TOPSOURCE
Online USGS topographical maps for all of the USA, in 1;25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:100,000. Search on toponyms and LAT-LON. Results are zoomable. By Maps a la Carte. 20000303
Geosources
General geography site with lesson plans, bimonthly themes with annotated links, often to Canada. By the (Canadian) National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE). Aimed at geography teachers. 20000303
Sustainable Development
Country information regarding sustanaible development. This is a United National database containing the country reports submitted to the 1998 international UN sustainable development conference. Holds detailed informatioon on treaties signed, guidelines implemented and policy initiatives. 20000303
Swiss GeoWeb
Guide to the earth sciences in Switzerland. With institutions, universities, geoengineering companies etc. Only indirectly access to information on Switzerland itself. 20000303
Category III: library collections, museums etc.
Canada - Ottawa, Ontario - Canadian Museum of Nature
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000427 Developing Space 2000 Remote Sensing Society student meeting - London, UK
20000517 Higher Education for Sustainable Regional Development - Seggau, Austria [info: Sibylle Braunegg]
20000710 XXVI Scientific Committee for Anarctic Research / XII Comnap - Tokyo, Japan
20001812 International Conference of Historical Geographers - Québec City, QB, Canada [info: Marc St.-Hilaire]

February 29
Category I: sites by subject
IISD Linkages - a multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers
Information on ongoing (international) environmental negatiations (e.g. Convenetion on Wetlands, Convention to Combat Desertification). By the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), with possibility for updates by Email. 20000229
Towards a comprehensive geographical perspective on urban sustainability - final report of the NSF workshop [PDF]
Link to PDF version of the 29 page (US) National Science Foundation report of the 1998 workshop defining the concept of urban sustainability. 20000229
Category II: sites by country/region
OceansCanada
From the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Ocean this resource focusses on the seas, oceans surrounding Canada. It has comprehensive links to research institutes and information on coastal management and marine conservation. Unfortunately some parts of the site are not being updated. 20000229
Worldskip
Basic information and links for all countries of the world. Includes links to basic maps, weather info, time and currency, news media, business and government links, toruism and culture. In some cases Worldskip only provides country based access to resources also available at the websites of the producers of the information (Britannica, BBC, CIA), but there are also many direct links to local information. Navigation is clear and efficient. 20000229
Portugal from the sky
Access to aerial photographs of Lisbon an Oporto and landsat images for the whole of Portugal. By the Centro Nacional de Informação Geográfica (CNIG). 20000229
Category V: professional organisations
International - International Cartographic Association (Ass. Cartographique Internationale)  (ICA/ACI)
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys, meteorological services etc.
Canada - Meteorological Service of Canada
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000706 International GIS Workshop on Antarctic King George Island - Wuhan, China

February 28
Category I: sites by subject

World Resources 1998/99 (summary and tables) or  full report (low quality, press 'read it')
Summaries and tables of this report on the environmental condition of the planet by the World Resources Institute, UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank; inludes access to regional profiles and additional internet resources. At the WRI bookstore there is also a rather low quality scan of the full report. 20000228
Category II: sites by country/region
Dams around the World
World map, descriptioons and links to further information for some 50 dams proposed or under construction and, interestingly, some dam removal proposals. By the (US) Environmental Defense NGO. 20000228
Interwad (some parts in Dutch)
Information on the large wetland area called Waddenzee (Dutch) in the Netherlands. With many maps and news on planning, environmental issues and conflicting land use. 20000228

February 25
Category I: sites by subject
Krumme's Geography Resources and Reading Lists TOPSOURCE
Breathtaking topical collection of  hundreds of annotated reading/resource lists by Günter Krumme, Washington University. Topics range from the very general (Afrika, services, transportation etc.) to the very detailed (car sharing programs, hotelling matrix, homelessness, homelessness, pizza franchise site selection, Werner Sombart, tobacco industry etc.) Although the site has some rough edges it will prove very useful for almost any geographer, especially those engaged in economic geography and business studies. 20000225
Category II: sites by county/region
Geef mij de ruimte (in Dutch)
Campaign to engage the general public in the Netherlands in the physical and environmental planning discussion. With the online survey at this site the the Ministry of Housing, Physcial Planning and the Environment (VROM) wants to generate more input for the Fifth Report of Physical Planning currently in preparation. The survey explicitly addresses environmental and planning conflicts but has some major survey-technical flaws. 20000225
Category IX: journals
United Kingdom - Royal Geographical Society - Electro-Praxis (postgraduate forum newsletter)
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000322 Globe 2000 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
20000406 Rural research conference of the RICS Research Foundation - Ashford, UK
20000410 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) 11th meeting - Gigiri, Kenya
20000605 6th Wolrd Congress on Environmental Health - Olso, Norway
20000617 2nd International Urban Environmental Infrastructure Forum - Salt lake City, UT, USA
20000917 Coastal Zone 2000 - St, John, New Brunswick, Canada
20001004 2nd World Conservation Congress - Amman, Jordan
20001016 Engaging the world in advancing pollution prevention and cleaner production - Montreal, Canada
20001102 Geografie 2000 (in Dutch) - Amsterdam, Netherlands

February 24
Category II: sites by country/region
Virtual Guidebooks: panoramas of the western North America [you may have to download the Apple Quicktime plug-in first]
Over 800 (eventually over 1400) virtual 360 degree panoramas of the western part of North America, form Alaska to southern Baja California. Panoramas can be rotated by mouse action. The pictures are catagorised geographically as well as by subject and come with very brief information on the location. Unfortunately they lack indication of direction. Subjects are landforms, natural history, archeology, botany and settlements, a.o.. There is also a detailed description of how to make this kind of panoramas yourself. By Don Bain. 20000222
Category VI: university departments
United Kingdom - Northampton - University College Northampton - School of Environmental Science
Category VIII: publishers
African Books Collective
Category IX: journals
Ecostan (environment newsletter for Central Asia) (full text, plain email or PDF, free of charge)
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000403 European Farming and Rural Systems Research - Volos, Greece
20000428 Floods and flooding in a changing environment - Northampton, UK [info: Chris Holt]

February 21
Category I: sites by subject

Palaeomap Project
Earth maps and research findings for each of earth's geological periods. These maps may answer simple questions such as where was Gondwana or Pangaea, what was earth like in Middle Silurian or when did North and South China come together? It also depicts the supercontinent that may form in the next 250 million years. There are six Java-based animations available for download. By Christopher R. Scotese. 20000221
Category V: professional organisations
International - Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
Category VI: university departments
Slovakia - Acadamy of Sciences - Institute of Geography
Spain - Barcelona - Universitat de Barcelona - Departament de Geografia Humana
Spain - Castellon - Universitat Jaume I - Departament d'História, Geografia i Art
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys etc.
Spain - Servidor de Geodesia y Geofísica
Category IX: journals
Spain - Zaragoza - Geographiocalia -  Publicación del Departamento de Geografía y Ordenación del Territorio
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000209 Canadian Association of Planning Students Conference - Vancouver, BC, Canada
20000413 The ocean at the millenium: key issues in marine affairs - Greenwich, UK [info: David Pinder]
20000515 The cultural approach in geography: development and culture - Mashhad, Iran [info: Mme Gautron at UGI]
20000523 Biogeographical and ecological aspects of desertification processes - Yerevan, Armenia [info: Ashot Khoetsian]
20000529 Geomorphological response to environmental change (GERTEC) - Smolenice, Slovakia
20000708 AESOP Brno 2000: Planning at a Turning Point - Brno, Czech Republic
20000913 Urban lifestyles: spaces, places, people - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
20001102 ACSP annual conf.: agenda for the new millenium - Atlanta, GA, USA
20010507 Space Syntax 2001 - Atlanta, GA. USA

February 18
Category II: sites by country/region
Central and Eastern Europe Internet Resources
Large collection of weblinks by country. Hundreds of authoritative links per country on topics as divers as news, politics, defense, history, culture, geography etc. The listing is strong in links to official documents and institutions, but also holds specialised links to relevant journal articles. By the Slavic Research Center - Hokkaido University, Japan. 20000218
Newly Independent States (NIS) and the former Sovjet Union Internet Resources
Large collection of weblinks by country. Hundreds of authoritative links per country on topics as divers as news, politics, defense, history, culture, geography etc. The listing is strong in links to official documents and institutions, but also holds specialised links to relevant journal articles. By the Slavic Research Center - Hokkaido University, Japan. 20000218
Palestinian economy and prospects for regional cooperation [PDF]
UCTAD report (1998) on the Palestinian economy going into resources, sectoral structure and prospects for economic cooperation with Israel and Arab States. 112 pp. Unfortunately figures used were are 3-4 years old on publication. 20000218
Category V: professional organisations
United States - Association of state wetland managers (ASWM)
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys etc.
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, former USSR) Statistical Committee
Category VIII: publishers
Heinemann
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000218 Global sustainable development in the 21st century - New Dehli, India
20000324 Beyond Preservation: Managing Change - State College, PA, USA
20000425 Wetlands, Carbon Cycling, and Future Climate Change - Laurel, MD, USA
20000512 Conference of Irish Geographers - Belfast, UK
20000614 Advances in ecology and environmental safety - St. Petersburg, Russia
20000702 Contaminants in freezing ground - Cambridge, UK
20000906 Writing the environment - London, UK [info: John  Parnham]
20000911 Sustainable tourism and the conservation of wetlands, rivers and floodplains - ??, USA

February 15
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Czech Republic and Ecuador)
Czech Republic, capital city: Prague (Czech, with link to English version)
Czech Republic, largest cities: 1. Prague  / 2. Brno / 3. Ostrava / 4. Plzen (Pilsen) (mirror) / 5. Olomouc
Czech Republic, government page: Vlada (Goverrnment, English version under construction)
Czech Republic, government departments listing: Governments on the WWW - Czech Republic
Ecuador, capital city: Quito
Ecuador, largest cities: 1. Guayaquil / 2. Quito / 3. Cuenca / 4. Machala / 5. Santo Domingo
Ecuador, government departments listing: Embassy of Ecuador, USA - Ecuador Authorities
City Population TOPSOURCE
High-tech city population database. Gives official (census and estimate) population figures for thousands of cities, agglomarations, provinces and states around the world (although large parts of Africa and Central en Southeast Asia are not yet covered). Apart form listings (alphabetical and by size), there are interactive Java-based maps showing popluation sizes on mouseover action. Maps also pop up when clicking on the number of a city in the lists. There is a special listing of cities with over 1 million population (also avaibale for downloading in Excel format). There is explanation available on how to use some of the more advanced map operations. By Thomas Brinkhoff. 20000215
Category VI: university departments
Czech Republic - Brno - Masaryk University - Geography and Cartography
Czech Republic - Olomouc - Palackeho University - Department of geography (in Czech)
Czech Republic - Plzen - University of West Bohemia - Faculty of Education - Department of Geography
Ecuador - Cuenca - Universad de Cuenca - Facultad de Filosofía - Escuela de História y Geografía
Category VII: statistical agencies, geological surveys etc.
Czech Republic - Geological Survey

February 14
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Chile)
Chile, capital city: Santiago
Chile, largest cities: 1. Santiago/ 2. Concepción / 3. Puente Alto / 4. Viña del Mar / 5. Valparaíso
Chile, government page: El Estado de Chile (in Spanish)
Chile, government departments listing: El Estado de Chile (in Spanish, click 'Gobierno')
Category V: professional organisations
United Kingdom - Transport Planning Society (TPS)
Category VI: university departments
Australia - Sydney - MacQuarie University - Department of Human Geography
Australia - Sydney - MacQuarie University - Physical Geography
United States - Columbus, OH - Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Geography
Category IX: journals
Ecologist, the (partly full text, no charge)
Industrial Ecology
Natural Hazards Quarterly (full text, no charge)
Nature (full text, no charge on registration)
Science (partial free access on registration)
Scientific American (full text, no charge)
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000326 International Conference on Discrete Global Grids - Santa Barbara, CA, USA

February 11
In the news: toxic mine waste creates environmental disaster in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia
The Jan 30th overflowing of a waste bassin of a plant treating mine tailings with cyanide to extract gold at the Australian/Romanian Aurul plant in Baia Mare (Nagy Banya), northern Romania has toxicated the Lapus, Semes/Szamos and Tisza rivers.
Toxic Mine Waste Fouls Eastern European Rivers
The story by Lycos Environment News Service with information on the accident and the companies responsible. With photograph of the plant.
Esmeralda page on Baia Mare tailings treatment project
Project information of the Esmeralda Corporation in Australia, participating for 50% in the Aurul comapny owning the plant.
Investromania Magazine Story on gold mining in Romania
This 1999 story of the Romania promoting magazine highlights the economic and environmental virtues of the Aurul company. ("These tailings are seeping into the water table and causing dust problems. After Aurul has re-treated the tailings they will be re-deposited in an unpopulated area in plastic lined dams, preventing the unwanted seepage")
Perth miners blamed for Europe cyanide disaster
Syndney Morning Herald Feb.10 story on Esmeralda and it's reaction to claims.
Map of Romania at the Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
Map showing Baia Mare and the Semes and Tisza Rivers
further discussion can be found in the newsgroups bit.listserv.hungary and soc.culture.romanian
Category I: sites by subject

World Development Report 2000/01 consultation draft (in PDF)
The new WDR, to be published in September, is already available in draft. For the first time there is an online consultation conference for this report, between Feb. 21 and March 31. This years theme is "Attacking Poverty". The site links to the "Bretton Woods Project" with all information on how to join the consultation. 20000211
World Income Inequality Database (WIID) [online HTML or offline MS Acces file, 1 MB)
UNU/UNDP site with figures on income inequality. Part of the UNU/UNDP research project entitled “Rising Income Inequality and Poverty Reduction: Are They Compatible?” 20000211
self description: "Developed over the period 1997-99, the World  Income Inequality Database (WIID) provides information on income inequalities at both cross-country and time series levels. It presents data on changes in income inequality over the period 1950-98, with a particular focus on the period since 1980 for 149 countries. It will be continuously updated.  It substantially expands on the 1997 Deininger-Squire (World Bank) database of the World Bank, which forms about half of the current database."
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000408 Space place and voice: an holistic vision for the sustainable city (3 lectures) - Liverpool, UK [info: Helen Pritchard]
20000912 Second Sustainable Cities Network Conf.: Sustainable cities: from research to implementation - Macnhester, UK [info:David Gibbs]
20001111 Light rail: investment for the future - Dallas, Texas

February 10
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Finland)
Finland, capital city: Helsinki
Finland, largest cities: 1. Helsinki / 2. Tampere / 3. Espoo / 4. Turku / 5. Oulu
Finland, government page: The Finnish Council of State
Finland, government departments listing: Council of State - Ministries
Category V: professional organisations
International - Society for Human Ecology (SHE)
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000611 Industrial ecology: engineering global systems - New London, NH, USA
20001018 Democracy and sustainability: Adaptive Planning and Management, 11th Int.l Conf. of the SHE - Jackson Hole, WY, USA

February 8
Category I: sites by subject
Industrial Transformation Science Plan
Industrial Transformation is a core science project of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change. It has resultated in a plan for coordinated research for the period 2000-2005 with the "goal of understanding the ways in which society could combine economic and social development with the reduction of pressure on the environment". The plan consists of a chapter outlining the improtant global environmental changing prompting the research, a chapter outlining the need for multidiciplinary and systems approaches. There is also chapter on often neglected international and geographic contexts in which trnasformation ressearch will take place. And then of course a chapter on research foci. A description of programmatic links with other research efforts rounds up the main part of the plan. The report is well referenced  and illustrated with tables and graphs. Edited by Pier Vellinga and Nadia Herb of the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (The Netherlands). 20000208
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: India)
India, capital city: Dehli
India, largest cities: 1. Mumbai (Bombay) / 2. Kolkata (Calcutta) / 3. Dehli / 4. Chennai (Madras) metro. dev. authority / 5. Bangalore
India, government page: Government of India - Prime Minister's Office
India, government departments listing: Government of India - Prime Minister's Office - Cabinet
Nakasendo Highway: A Journey to the Heart of Japan TOPSOURCE
Multifacetted site, rich in content, presenting various topics related to central Japan. It is structured around the old Nakasendo highway connecting Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto. The highway flourished in the Edo Period (1600-1887) and passed through 69 postal towns. You can navigate by topic (as diverse as climate and geography, post-towns, castle towns, early history, rivers and waters, agriculture, the military, rural problems, architecture, tourism, etc.) or geographically by vitually travelling along the old route (in some 60 stretches). The site is rich in multimedia, but large files (many over 2000K) may take a while to download. 20000208
from the introduction: "This project, by Dr. R.T.A. Irving of Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and Dr.Thomas A. Stanley, Department of History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, began as a multimedia CD-ROM project. It has been transferred from that media to the World Wide Web in stages and will ultimately be expanded beyond the CD-ROM presentation, especially in terms of photographs. The project contains some 225 articles of various, usually substantial, lengths (some 130,000 words in total), nearly 200 glossay items (or definitions) and over 300 photographs, maps and illustrations. More photographs will be added at a later time. This website also includes animations and conversations between members of a fictional party who "travelled" the Nakasendo highway. Their conversations introduce clusters of topics which are then expanded on through the main articles which are in turn interactively linked to the glossary items and pictoral material."
Category V: professional organizations
Germany - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (German Association for Asian Studies (DGA))
United Kingdom - Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
Catgeory XI: conferences etc.
20000307 Transport and Social Inclusion - Liverpool, UK
20000315 Into the Next Millennium: The Past and Promise of Environmental History - Tacoma, WA, USA
20000330 EGEA Eastern Regional Congress Bocheniec 2000 - Bocheniec, Poland
20000425 InLCA: The International Conference and Exhibition on LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT: Tools for Sustainability - Arlington, VA, USA
20000505 California Geographical Society, 54th Annual Meeting: Borders and Boundaries - San Diego, CA, USA
20000509 Buffers: Commonsense Conservation for Urbanizing Landscapes - Nebraska City, NE, USA [info:secretariat]
20000721 Southeast Asian Urban Futures - Singapore

February 7
 
Category II: sites by country/region
U.S Census data for the 100 largest cities in the US 1790-1990
This US Census population division site provides figures for large US cities, 1790-present with ten-year intervals. 20000207
Category V: professional organisations
International - International Peat Society (IPS)
International - Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS)
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000110 Second International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry - Orlando, FL, USA
20000501 6th Int. Conf. on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments - Charleston, SC, USA
20000425 The sustainable city, 1st Int. Conf. on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20000529 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 34th Congress - Victoria, BC, Canada
20000605 R'2000 Integrated Resource Management / Envirotech 2000 - Toronto, Ont, Canada
20000611 1st Stephan Müller Conf. of the European Geophysical Society: From Continental breakup to collision - Dead Sea, Israel
20000628 ENVIROSOFT 2000 Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies - Bilbao, Spain
20000724 Air Pollution 2000 - Cambridge, UK
20000806 11th Int. Conf. on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
20000806 The International Association of Ecology 6th International Wetland Symposium - Québec, Canada
20000806 Society of Wetland Scientist 21st annual symposium - Québec, Canada
20000917 The National Earthquake Risk Management Conference: Understanding the Hazards and Reducing the Ris - Seattle, WA, USA
20000918 Coastal Environment 2000 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
20000920 2nd International Conference on Oil & Hydrocarbon Spills, Modelling, Analysis & Control - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
20000927 Second International Conference on Maritime Engineering and Ports - Barcelona, Spain
20001106 14th Int. Conf. on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing - Las Vegas, NV, USA
20001112 6th Int. Conf. on Seismic Zonation - Palm Springs, CA, USA
20001120 Hydro 2000: 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium - Perth, Australia
20001203 Deep water reservoirs of the world - Houston, TX, USA
20010527 Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada, joint ann. mtg. - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
20010527 Society of Wetland Scientists 22nd annual meeting - Chicago, IL, USA
Category XII: miscellaneous
Geographical  clipart from Graphic Maps
Numerous clip art images of countries, globes etc. for free. 20000207



February 1

Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Croatia)

Croatia, largest cities: 1. Zagreb / 2. Split / 3. Rijeka / 4. Osijek / 5. Zadar
Croatia, government page: Government of the Republic of Croatia

Croatia, government departments listing: Government Bodies
Croatia, Category VI: university departments
Germany - Freiburg im Breisgau - Albert-Ludwigs Universität - Geographie
Category IX: journals
Journal of Human Development
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000129 First Argentinian Speleological Congress - Malargüe, Argentina
20000625 Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting - Tokyo, Japan
20000714 Karst Studies and Problems: 2000 and Beyond - Cluj, Romania
20000731 Gravity, geoid and geodynamics 2000 - Banff, Alberta, Canada
20000828 14th International Symposium on Earth Tides (ETS2000) - Mizusawa, Iwate, Japan
20010715 13th International Congress of Speleology (ICS) - Brasilia, Brazil
20001117 Poverty, Prosperity, Progress: 2nd Biennial Aotearoa New Zealand Int. Dev. Studies Network (DEVNET) Conference - Wellington/Aotearoa, New Zealand
20010823 5th International Conference on Geomorphology - Tokyo, Japan


January 31

Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Greece and Uzbekistan)

Greece, capital city: Athens (in Greek)
Greece, largest cities: 1. Athens (in Greek) / 2. Thessaloniki / 3. Piraeus / 4. Patras / 5. Iraklion
Greece, government page: Hellenic Republic - Prime Minister's Office

Greece, government departments listing: Hellenic Republic - Prime Minister's Office - Links
Uzbekistan, government page: Government of Uzbekistan - Welcome to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, government departments listing: Government of Uzbekistan

Attiko Metro
Technically advanced but slow website of the Athens Metro, detailing the construction and operation of the newly (Janaury 27th) opened metro line in the Greek capital, built to relieve the traffic in the streets, which is supposedly one of the worst in Europe. 20000131
Centre for Economic Research - Tashkent, Uzbekistan (US Mirror)
UNDP and the Uzbekistan government developed this site. It provides workingpapers on the economic situation and propects of this former USSR republic in Central Asia. There are also statistics and links
Zwolle Interactive Innnercity Planning initiative
Zwolle, a medium-sized town in the 'near east' of the Netherlands has called for plans to renew part of the city. Some 15 architects and planners have come up with solutions the motorway which cuts through the town centre. This site gives all the information, a virtual tour, the philosophy behind the initiative, votes on the different designs and links to the proposals that have been brought forward. 20000131

Category X: reference
Canada's geographic names
Provided by Resources Canada, this gazetteer permits querying a databese of 350,000 names by names or geographical coordinates and returns names, corodinates, basic maps, other places within a given radius, a 'how-far-is-it service' and information on the origin of placenames. 20000131
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000604 Reaching women and children in disasters - Miami, Florida
Encyclopedia of Asia
Call for contributions to this multi-volume work, with over 4,000 entries anticipated, by Berkshire Reference Works, to be published by Scribner in 2001. 20000131


January 28

Category I: sites by subject
IRD: Institut de recherche pour le développement (was: Orstom)
Large French research institute for developing studies, with huge expertise in Africa. The site features archives, research outlines, multimedia subsites and much more. 20000128
Category IX: journals
Ethnicities
Category X: reference
Orbis Latinus: Graesse's Latin placenames list of 1909
Cross-reference of Latin placenames and current names, with search facility. 20000128
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000807 6th International Congress on earth science - Santiago, Chile [info: secretariat]



January 27

Category II: sites by country/region

Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
Canadian Museum of Civilization based site on the early explorations of Martin Frobisher, who tried to find the Northwest Passage, but instead found Baffin Island and Inuit peoples. The site not only tells the story of exploration, but goes into the confrontation of cultures as well. By Robert McGhee. The site is lavishly illustrated with maps, drawings and (recent) photograps. 20000127

Category X: reference
Arctic Studies - ASTIS = SISTA
Bibliographica database with 45,000 records on the Canadian Arctic. Maintained by the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary. References are mainly to grey literature and journal articles from 1978 to present. In French and English. 20000127

Category XI: conferences etc.
20000529 Detection and prediction of contemporary climate change and their effects in a regional scale - Tarragona, Spain
20000703 9th International Symposium in Medical Geography - Montréal, Québec, Canada
20000716 Detecting Environmental Change: Science and Society - London, UK [info: Catherine Stickley]


January 24

Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic country links: Jamaica)

Jamaica, government page: Government Information Service
Jamaica, government departments listing: Government Information Service
Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA)
Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA)
The Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) is the Government Agency responsible for the management, conservation and protection of the natural resources of Jamaica. It is UN recognised. The website details research and policy initiatives in coastal and mirine conservation, parks and watershed maagement, a.o.. 20000124.
URBAMA -Centre d'etude et de recherche sur l'urbanisation dans le monde arabe
Tours based French research institute on urban development in the Arab world. Research and workshop information and lists of publications (city monograps and working papers). 20000124

Category VI: university departments etc.
United States - State College, PA - Penssylvania State University - Colllege of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000304 Women and geography studygroup: Careers for Women in Geography  - London, UK [info: Helen Jarvis]
20000322 Sensitive rural spaces and pressure of the big metropolitan areas (FNEG 19/ Euromed 9) - Strasbourg, France
20000709 Varenius Then and Now: From Geographia Generalis to Geographic Information Science - Hitzacker, Germany


January 21

Category I: sites by subject

Geo Crítica
Critical geography site providing publication series and a newsletter on web resources. There is also information on research programmes and a list of individuals forming an internetional critical geography network. The site is related to the Geography Department of the University of Barcelona and is mostly in Spanish. 20000121.

Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Taiwan)
Taiwan, capital city: Taipei
Taiwan, largest cities: 1. Taipei / 2. Taichung / 3. Tainan / 4. Panchiao / 5. Chungho / Kaohsiung
Taiwan, government page: Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (in chinese) / Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Taiwan, government departments listing:
Category IX: journals
Geo Crítica(full text, no charge)

Category XI: conferences etc.
19980910 Safer Communities: Strategic Directions in Urban Planning - Melbourne, Australia PA
20000325 The Yugoslav Crisis: evaluating International Responses and the Way Forward - Bradford, UK
20000512 Conference of Irish Geographers 2000 - Belfast, UK
20000531 Towards sustainability: social and environmental justice - Boston/Medford, MA, USA [info: secretariat]
20000625 NAEP 2000: Overcoming Barriers to Environmental Improvement - Portland, ME, USA
20000728 Land Conservation Summit 2000: Advancing the Debate in the New Millennium - St. Paul, MN
20000911 European Transport Conference - Cambridge, UK


January 18

Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: South Africa)

South Africa, capital city: Pretoria
South Africa, largest cities: 1. Johannesburg / 2. Cape Town (Kaapstad) / 3. Durban / 4. Soweto / 5. Port Elizabeth
South Africa, government page: Government Online

South Africa, government departments listing: Government Online - Departments
Category V: professional organisations
Canada - Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
Category VI: university departments etc.
Canada - Winnipeg, Manitoba - University of Winnipeg - Department of Geography
United States - Greeley, CO - University of Northern Colorado - Department of Geography
Category X: reference
Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS Online) TOPSOURCE
Transportation bibliography. Covers material from the 1960s to present. In all some 400,000 bibliographic records with abstracts (yearly addition 20,000), available without cost or registration. By the (US) Transportation Research Board, the (US) National Research Council, (US) National Academies, and the (US) Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation. Inevitable there is a US bias, but the sheer size makes this service the premier transportation literature tool available. Full text (links), will become available (mostly not free of cost). 20000118.
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000217 PTIU national conference (UK): Green transport - the way forward - Wigan, UK



January 17

Category II: sites by countryregion (today's basic links: Ireland (Rep.))

Ireland, capital city: Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath)
Ireland, largest cities: 1. Dublin / 2. Cork (Corcaigh) / 3. Limerick (Luimheach) / 4. Galway (An Ghaillimh) / 5. Waterford
Ireland, government page: Department of the Taoiseach (prime minister) and Government Information Service

Ireland, government departments listing: Department of the Taoiseach (prime minister) - Government
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000717 International Conference on GIS in Education - San Bernardino, CA, USA
20000826 The 9th International Conference on the Combined Effects of Environmental Factors - Savonlinna, Finland


January 14

Category I: sites by subject

ESRI Canada Schools and Libraries Program

Commercial site supporting the use of GIS in schools and libraires with software, tutorials, lesson packs etc. The content of the site is mostly not Canada-specific. 20000114.
Transportation Research Group (Southampton)
British organization acting as a network of transportation research professionals. It is part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southampton, but has incorporates some national (UK) and international initiaves such as the young transportation professionals network. 20000114
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: and Uganda)
Uganda, capital city: Kampala
Uganda, largest cities: 1. Kampala / 2. Jinja / 3. Mbale / 4. Entebbe / 5. Soroti
Uganda, government page: Government of Uganda (with disctrict profiles)

Uganda, government departments listing: Government of Uganda -The Cabinet
World Bank: Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000
Summaries (HTML) and full text (in PDF) of this december 1999 World Bank report on the near future of the world economy, with special focus on developing countries. Chapters on financial crisis, Asian restrcuturing and commodity prices. 20000114
ECLAC: United National Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
This Santiago, Chile, based organisation of the UN promotes development through economic research and information. Many (sometimes Spanish-only) full text reports and news articles, statistics and a searchabel library. 20000114
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000927 ERB 2000: Monitoring and modelling catchment water quantity and quality - Ghent, Belgium



January 13

Category XI: conferences etc.
20000317 Shaping a Sustainable Future: Best Practices in Higher Education - Mableton, GA, USA
20000507 Urban wet weather pollution control - Rochester, NY, USA
20000607 Emerging new research in the geographies of health and impairment - Portsmouth, UK [info:Rob Walker]
20000709 Watershed 2000 - Vancouver, BC, Canada



January 11

Category IX: journals
Geography Online (full text, no charge, web only)



January 6

Category II: sites by country/region (todays basic links: Denmark)

Denmark, capital city: Copenhagen
Denmark, largest cities: 1. Copenhagen / 2. Århus / 3. Odense / 4. Aalborg / 5. Esbjerg
Denmark, government page: Staatsministeriet - Prime Minister's Office

Denmark, government departments listing: Ministerier (at the Ministry of Labour)
Category IX: journals
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst(full text, no charge, web-only)
Category XI: conferences etc.
200005?? Seeking Civil Society: Environmental NGOs in the Caspian - ??, USA [info/abstracts: Pardis Minuchehr]
20001023 Wood in world rivers - Corvallis, OR. USA
20001108 World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium - Seoul, Korea


January 4

Category I: sites by subject
Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International  Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports
Abstracts, reviews and primary source material (174 texts) for the study of pre-1918 urban planning history. By John W. Reps, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, USA. 19990104
Category II: sites by country/region (today's basic links: Portugal)

Portugal, capital city: Lisbon
Portugal, largest cities: 1. Lisbon / 2. Porto / 3. Vila Nova de Gaia / 4. Coimbra / 5. Braga
Portugal, government page: Governo em diálogo

Portugal, government departments listing: Governo
Category VII: statistical agencies
Portugal - Azores Islands - Serviço Regional de Estatística dos Açores
Portugal - Madeira - Direcção Regional de Estatística da Madeira
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000911 UDMS 2000: 22nd Urban Data Management Symposium - Delft, Netherlands
20001126 International Conference on Sustainable Regional Development (role of university in -) - Lowell, MA, USA [abstracts to Judy Blackburn]


January 3

Category II: sites by country/region
CEOnet
Government service acting as intermediary between supply and demand for Canadian geospatial data and services. 20000103

Geogratis
Government service distributing free files with Canadian geospatial data. 20000103
Category XI: conferences etc.
20000213 26th International Conference on Making Cities Livable: “The City & Region in the 21st Century” - Charleston, SC, USA
20000504 GIS Research UK 2000 - York, UK
20000626 ENHR Research Conf. on Housing in the 21st Century: Fragmentation and Reorientation - Gävle, Sweden
20000704 The 27th International Making Cities Livable Conference (IMCL 27) “Rediscovery of Public Space” and “Cities for the Well-Being of Children - Vienna, Austria

20000718 AESOP 2000: Planning at a turning point - Brno, Chzech Republic


 

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