Wellcome Trust launches Our Planet, Our Health initiative

The Wellcome Trust population initiative.

This paper describes what the Wellcome Trust has done and aims to do through its population initiative. The Trust is required to spend its funds to improve the physical welfare of mankind, and in this context there can be no more important issue than the rapid changes that are occurring in the human population. The Trust's first involvement was to help fund the New Delhi population summit cover...

Our Crowded Planet

This is an important book but unfortunately the people who need most to read it are the least likely to do so. It consists of a series of short essays by an unusual group of scholars ranging from biologists, historians and economists to lawyers, statesmen and clergymen. The population problem is approached from the various and varied points of view represented by these contributors, all of whom...

Coping with our cold planet.

ERA-PLANET, a European Network for Observing Our Changing Planet

ERA-PLANET is a wide European network comprised of 118 researchers from 35 partner institutions located in 18 countries, aiming to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation (EO) in coherence with the European participation to the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the program for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation, COPERNICUS. It will...

Planet Labels - How do we use our planet?

Accurate and up-to-date land cover classification data can be used for interesting applications in different fields; by tracking daily changes of forest cover in areas of interest it is possible to quickly detect illegal deforestation. Environmental scientists can further explore the consequences of climate change by measuring how fast ice cover is melting. Urban planners can track city growth ...