Besides the dominant focus of urban remote sensing research on local and regional scales, the URS2005 conference offers a special session on “Global Observation of Urban Areas”. This session was jointly initiated by the GOFC-GOLD (Global observations of forest and land cover) emphasizing that coordinated, consistent, and operational urban mapping and monitoring has to consider the evolving effo...

Quantifying and reporting the extent of forest resources is one of the primary objectives of forest resource assessments across geopolitical scales (e.g. local, regional, national and international). While there has been a substantial increase in the amount of environmental data, estimates for national and international assessments are often compiled from surveys conducted at fi ner geopolitica...

For urban economies, an ecological endowment embodiment analysis has to be supported by endowment intensities at both the international and domestic scales to reflect the international and domestic imports of increasing importance. A three-scale input–output modeling for an urban economy to give nine categories of embodiment fluxes is presented in this paper by a case study on the carbon dioxid...

The sparsity of data in the southwest Pacific Ocean has limited our understanding of the effect of oceanography in regional ocean climate, and on the role that the ocean plays in ocean-atmosphere interaction. Consequently, comprehensive climate studies of the southwest Pacific region have been constrained due in part to this relatively poor spatial (on regional to large scales) and temporal (on...

the growth of regional trade blocks has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. regional agreements vary widely but, all have the objective of reducing barriers to trade between member countries that in most cases result in increasingly trade flows and economic growth. this paper attempts to explore the results of trade integration in eco, eu and oic block...

Abstract In 2019, 100 years had elapsed since the first National Forest Inventory (NFI) was established in Norway. Motivated by a fear of over-exploitation timber resources, NFIs today enable informed policy making providing data vital to decision support at international, national, regional, and local scales. This Collection articles celebrates 100th anniversary with description past, present,...