International Groups, Global Organizations, World Regions
(ECP and CTSP members, sites of interest for mapping/GIS, scholarly
papers and ESRI Conference Proceedings, and sites with public conservation
and GIS data for downloading)
Sites of interest for mapping/GIS
(Legend: CTSP sites are coded "c" plus the year of the grant,
(cs=software, cm=mac), ECP grantees are coded "e". Many groups,
especially newer grantees, do not yet have their own sites and are colored
green. Other new groups may be described or supported by other sites)
Regions: Europe
Biodiversity Conservation Information System
(BCIS) (John Busby, Programme Manager BCIS c/o WCMC 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3
0DL United Kingdom Tel. 44 1223 277314 Fax. 44 1223 277136 Email. john.busby@wcmc.org.uk.
Alternate Contact: BCIS Chair, IUCN, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196, Gland, Switzerland)
"The Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS) is the largest NGO
biodiversity information management initiative in history. BCIS is a consortium
of nine Members and Programmes of IUCN-The World Conservation Union. The
BCIS mission is to support environmentally sound decision-making and actions
affecting the status of biodiversity and landscapes at the local, national,
regional, and global levels through cooperative provision of data, information,
advice, and related services. BCIS consortium members are committed to
providing better data for better decisions. " The BCIS Partners include:
-BirdLife International, an alliance of leading bird conservation organisations
from 80 countries; -Botanic Gardens Conservation International, a network
of 450 of the world's botanical gardens in 91 countries; -Conservation
International, working in 23 countries on four continents, - International
Species Information System, a network of 500 zoos and aquariums from 54
countries, -IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, - IUCN Environmental
Law Programme, - IUCN Species Survival Commission, -IUCN World Commission
on Protected Areas, -The Nature Conservancy, -TRAFFIC International, -Wetlands
International, founded from the integration of the Asian Wetland Bureau
(AWB), the International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB)
and Wetlands for the Americas (WA) -World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
. The BCIS Metadatabase
: "All members of the BCIS consortium manage data on biodiversity
and related topics. Indeed, some manage many hundreds of datasets covering
a wide range of issues, disciplines and functions. With such a breadth
of data available, it is appropriate to develop criteria for inclusion
of metadata records. This is known as a collections policy. The policy
for this metadatabase is to include, initially, only the highest level
of metadata records, i.e. those which represent datasets at the highest
level of aggregation. As an example, the entire bibliographic resource
of WCMC is represented by a single record."
Univ Torino Italy: FORUM: Habitat in Developing Countries
(c/o BIBLIOTECA TERRITORIO AMBIENTE Facoltà di Architettura - Politecnico
di Torino Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Torino, Italia Tel.: +39 11 5647469 - Fax.: +39
11 5647499 e-mail: forum@araxp.polito.it.) "The Forum: habitat
in developing countries is an internet resource aimed at providing information
to researchers and professionals working for the betterment of the built
environment in developing countries, and at facilitating the communication
among them. The Forum is a research project of the Library Territorio
Ambiente (specialized in planning in developing countries) of the Faculty
of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in co-operation with
the School of Specialization "Technology, Architecture and Town
in Developing Countries." See esp their
Links.
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