Background: Reliable access to basic services can improve a community's resilience to HIV/AIDS. Accordingly, work is being done to upgrade the physical infrastructure in affected areas, often employing a strategy of decentralised service provision. Spatial characteristics are one of the major determinants in implementing services, even in the smaller municipal areas, and good quality spatial information is needed to inform decision making processes. However, limited funds, technical infrastructure and human resource capacity result in little or no access to spatial information for crucial infrastructure development decisions at local level.
Melman, Th.C.P., A.G.M. Schotman, H.A.M. Meeuwsen, R.A. Smidt, B. Vanmeulebrouk en H. Sierdsema, 2016. Ex-ante-evaluatie ANLb-2016 Ex-ante evaluation ANLb2016 for learning management; a first look at size and spatial quality of managed units in the new agri-environmental system in the Netherlands.Outine: An ex ante evaluation was performed for the new system for agricultural nature and landscape in the Netherlands (ANLb-2016), in which managers (collectives of farmers) have more responsibility as before. Objects were size, location in suitable areas and spatial coherence of the managed plots. Special attention is paid to the quality as meadow bird habitat. A comparison is made with 2010. Attention is paid to four agricultural habitats: grassland, arable fields, dry and wet veining. The focus is put on meadow birds: much knowledge is available and the greater part of the managed area concerns this group. Results: the managed area declined from about 143,000 to 90,000 ha (of which approx 23.000ha concerns expiring contracts of which continuation is uncertain). Meadow bird management is about 62-64% in suitable area (58% in 2010); 65% of it is fairly concentrated, 35% more or less dispersed. With the so called heavy management, as far as situated within suitable area, is expected to result for about 50% into a reasonable to good quality habitat. Recommendation: To improve the management it is crucial to come to objectified insights, shared by all parties concerned: managers (collectives of farmers), scientists and policy-makers. Basic items for this moment are reconnition of suitable areas, lower limits for spatial coherence and habitat quality. Here, so called learning management (learning by doing, bench mark, sharing knowledge and experience) may be very important to come to ecological effects.Trefwoorden: Agrarisch natuurbeheer, leefgebiedtypen, ruimtelijke kwaliteit, ruimtelijke samenhang
The Library of the Dutch Wageningen University and Research centre houses a collection of aerial photographs taken by the Allied Air Forces. The collection is part of a project that aims to publish these images in a user friendly way so that they are accessible to a wide audience. This paper describes the nature of the collection and its particular requirements for publication, as well as the design and development of the application for collection presen-
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