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Skills for a green economy

This project results from recommendations made in the skills strategy for England, Skills for Sustainable Growth. The work was undertaken with the aims of identifying the skills needed to support...

 
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Climate Change Training for Planning Officers

This free training package is designed to enhance the skills planning officers need to take positive action on climate change and increase local authority capacity to tackle causes and effects....

 
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Climate Change Skills Fund - YoHr Space Programme Report and Project Update

Local authority Leaders and Chief Executives recognised the critical importance of managing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change in Yorkshire and Humber and agreed a programme of work that...

 
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Economic value of biodiversity

This report presents the findings of a study of  'The Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Service Benefits delivered by the UK Biodiversity Action Plan'. The research, commissioned by Defra (and...

 
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Website of the Week (WC 24th May 2011) - The RSPB Community

This week's Website of the Week is The RSPB Community (www.rspb.org.uk/community/) a chance to connect with an RSPB community of online chums. You can share experiences, show off your photos...

 
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Natural England’s Geographic Literacy Strategy
Wed, 12/10/2011 - 16:00 - 18:30

Natural England, Queen Street, Leeds, LS1 2UN

Natural England’s Geographic Literacy Strategy Title 1: Natural England’s Geographic Literacy Strategy Presenter 1: Phillipa Swanton, Natural England Title 2: INSPIRE/UK Location Strategy Presenter 2: Andrew Newman, UK Location Programme. Sponsor: Natural England

 
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GIS in Housing Associations
Thu, 21/07/2011 - 17:00 - 19:00

Manchester University, Room 5.206, University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

Presenter: Alex Hill, GIS Officer, Plus Dane Housing Sponsor: Landmap. AGI Northern Group. The AGI Northern Group provides local access to Association for Geographic Information facilities and fosters a GI user network in the North. We host an annual programme of seminars at venues across the region and encourage professional development through active promotion and support of CPD and the CGeog(GIS) accreditation. To attend an event simply register your interest via our web-site or sign up for alerts via LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

 
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Open Source Geospatial: Open for Research, Open for Business, Open for Government
Thu, 16/06/2011 - 17:00 - 19:00

Lecture Theatre A54, Postgraduate Statistics Centre Building, Fylde College, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW

Guest Speaker: Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org/) will talk on The Future of Open Source Geospatial. (subject to confirmation as his wife is expecting a baby!)

 
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CDR Open Day
Fri, 04/03/2011 - 10:00 - 12:30

Eccles House, Hope

You can hardly log on to any website without seeing a map, practically every TV news bulletin features a map or aerial photograph. Citizen expectations on all organisations have never been higher, at a time when there are less resources available to meet those expectations. But surely Internet/Intranet mapping applications are expensive and difficult to implement? No! That may have been true at one time, but it doesn’t have to be any more.

 
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Local Skills for Biodiversity Workshop - Full Agenda Now Available

The first workshop event for the EU Local Skills for Biodiversity Project (BD-Skills) has been announced by Yorkshire and Humber Environment Trust. This free event with lunch will take place...

 
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