Outline and Requirements of EU MRV

Operationalising MRV of Support

Engaging Local Communities in the Mapping and MRV Requirements of REDD+

Based on fieldwork carried out over the last five years, this article presents the case for communities being permitted to make their own forest carbon inventories for the purposes of monitoring under national REDD+ programmes, following brief training. Modern technology, particularly PDAs (small, handheld computers), can provide the platform both for mapping and for storing data, and can easil...

Action Within Information Systems: Outline of a Requirements Engineering Method

In this paper an action approach to requirements engineering is outlined. The approach is based on a language action view of information systems, organisations and business. Theoretical standpoints and methodological consequences are presented and elaborated. One conclusion is that requirements engineering ought to be viewed as actability engineering in order to perceive information systems as ...

Interoperability and accuracy requirements for EU environmental noise mapping

The use of geoinformation in the environmental sector got a new challenge by the commencement of the EU Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EG (END) in 2002 and its transposition into German law (§ 47 a-f of Federal Immission Protection Law) in 2005. The EU environmental noise mapping puts high demands on the access, availability and accuracy of numerous thematic and geographical information ...

Eu Product Standard for Eps and Performance Requirements

As a result of the EU policy to strengthen the European Union by encouraging free trade of building products between member countries, product standards for almost hundred building product groups were created over the past 20 years. The product standard for EPS in Civil Engineering Applications (EN 14933) came into force in March 2009. This presentation will focus first on the results of the im...