2014-08-03 NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST
This Issue: Remote Sensing as an Environmental Compliance Tool and Some Other Good Things.
REMOTE SENSING AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE TOOL – Concerns about use of remote sensing and invasion of privacy has surfaced. Here are some sites that may be of interest.
Aliança da Terra et al. 2007. Three Essential Strategies for Reducing Deforestation. 19 p.
Assunção, Juliano et al. 2013. DETERring Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement. Climate Policy Initiative. 36 p.
Contreras-Hermosilla, Arnoldo. 2002. Law Compliance in the Forestry Sector. World Bank Institute. 46 p.
Davies, Charles et al. 1999. Moving pictures: how satellites, the Internet, and international environmental law can help promote sustainable development. 66 p.
de Sherbinin, Alex et al. 2002. Remote Sensing - Data Valuable Support for Environmental Treaties. Environment 44(1): 20-31.
ESA-ISPL. 2012. Evidence from space. Study for the European Space Agency on use of space-derived earth observation information as evidence in judicial and administrative proceedings. 180 p.
FAO. 2005. Best practices for improving law compliance in the forest sector. FAO Forestry Paper 145.
Gabrynowicz, Joanne Irene ed. 2002. Proceedings – The First International Conference on the State of Remote Sensing Law. 271 p.
Geer, Karen. 2011. The Constitutionality of Remote Sensing Satellite Surveillance in Warrantless Environmental Inspections. Fordham Environmental Law Review 3(1): 43-56.
Gibson, Lesley et al. 2009. Remote sensing as a tool for resources assessment towards the determination of the legal compliance of surface and groundwater use. Report to the Water Research Commission. WRC Report No. 1690/1/09. 166 p.
GTPS. 2013? Mechanisms for control and mitigation of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Biome. White Paper. 7 p.
Hasenauer, Stefan. 2004. The significance of remote sensing in the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry as specified by the Kyoto Protocol. Thesis. 67 p.
INECE. Principles of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Handbook
Lawerence, Daniel et al. eds. 2014. The International Comparative Legal Guide to Environment and Climate Change Law 2014. 309 p.
Macauley, Molly K.; Brennan, Timothy J. 1998. Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology. RFF Discussion Paper 98-33. 48 p.
Markowitz, Kenneth J. 2002. Legal challenges and market rewards to the use and acceptance of remote sensing and digital information as evidence. Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 12: 219-264.
McCauley, Lauren. 2014. With liberty to monitor all. Human Rights Watch. 11 p..
McDonald, R.I., et al. 2014. Conflicting social norms and community conservation compliance. J. Nature Conserv. 22(3):212-216. Abstract.
Muramira, Telly Eugene et al. eds, 2009. Best Practices in Environmental Information Management in Africa - The Uganda Case Study. UNEP. 30 p.
NRC. 2002. Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing. The National Academies Press.
OTA. 1984. Remote Sensing and the Private Sector: Issues for Discussion—A Technical Memorandum. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-TM-ISC-20, 144 p.
Peter, Nicolas. 2004. The use of remote sensing to support the application of multilateral environmental agreements. Space Policy 20:189–195
Purdy, Ray. 2010. Satellite Monitoring of Environmental Laws - Lessons to be learnt from Australia. Final Report. 225 p.
Purdy, Ray. 2010. Using Earth Observation Technologies for Better Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Laws Journal of Environmental Law. Abstract.
Rose, Gregory L. 2011. Gaps in the Implementation of Environmental Law at the National, Regional and Global Level. First Preparatory Meeting of the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability. 12 - 13 October 2011 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 29 p.
Satellite Monitoring as a Legal Compliance Tool in the Environment Sector
Sneifer, Youssef. 1996. The Implications of National Security Safeguards on the Commercialization of Remote Sensing Imagery. Seattle University Law Review 19: 539-572.
Spadoni, Adolfo Sergio. N.d. Normative Profiles of Remote Sensing. Telecommunications & Space Journal vol. 6. 9 p.
Taillant, Jorge Daniel; Picolotti, Romina. 2011. The Uses of Satellite Imagery: Linking Human Rights and Environment. Center for International Environmental Law. 10 p.
UCL Research in Satellites and the Law .
US. 1992. Land Remote Sensing Policy. United States Code Title 15. Chapter 82.
von der Dunk. Frans G. 2008. Treaty Law in Support of Climate Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 510-518.
Weber, Robert A.; O’Connell, Kevin M. 2011. Alternative Futures: United States Commercial Satellite Imagery in 2020. 111 p.
SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST
AP.2014. Help spot invasive trees in photos of Kauai forest
Badore, Margaret. 2014. How Global Forest Watch is changing the way we fight deforestation. Treehugger.
Baudron, F.; Giller, K.E. 2014. Agriculture and nature: trouble and strife? Biol. Conserv. 170:232-245. Abstract/
Belaire, J.A., et al. 2014. Predicting and mapping potential whooping crane stopover habitat to guide site selection for wind energy projects. Conserv. Biol. 28(2):541-50.Abstract.
Blunden, Jessica; Arndt, Derek S. Eds. 2014: State of the Climate in 2013. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95 (7), S1–S257.
Boodram, Kim. 2014. Technology to control squatting. Trinidad Express Newspapers.
Brandt, P., et al. 2014. Multifunctionality and biodiversity: ecosystem services in temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Biol. Conserv. 169:362-371.Highlights.
Burgman, M.A., et al. 2014. Voting systems for environmental decisions. Conserv. Biol. 28(2):322-332. Abstract.
Burrows, M.T., et al. 2014. Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity. Nature 507(7493):492-495. Abstract.
Büttger, H., et al. 2014. The history of intertidal blue mussel beds in the North Frisian Wadden Sea in the 20th century: can we define reference conditions for conservation targets by analysing aerial photographs? J. Sea Res. 87:91-102. Abstract.
Cassano, C.R., et al. 2014. Forest loss or management intensification? Identifying causes of mammal decline in cacao agroforests. Biol. Conserv. 169:14-22. Abstract.
Cheremshynskyi, Mykhailo; Byamugisha, Frank F. K. 2014. Developing Land Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa:Experiences and Lessons from Uganda and Ghana. Abstract.
Colomina, I.; Molina P. 2014. Unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry and remote sensing: A review. ISPRS Journal 92: 79-97. Abstract.
Cowling, Paul, et al. 2014. Developing Guidance on Forest Governance Data Collection for Assessment and Monitoring. FAO.
Edwards, D. 1983. A broad-scale structural classification of vegetation for practical purposes. Bothalia 14:705-712.
FAO. 2014. Putting people at the centre of forest policies.
Fettig, C.J.; McKelvey, S.R. 2014. Resiliency of an interior ponderosa pine forest to bark beetle infestations following fuel-reduction and forest-restoration treatments. Forests 5:153–176. From Barbara Conkling, USFS.
Holecz, Francesco et al. eds. 2014. Land Applications of Radar Remote Sensing. InTech. 318 p. Free online text. From Artur Gil, GIS/RS List.
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