- Events:
- JISC Inovation Forum 2010
- GeoWeb 2010
- Events on the horizon:
- International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)
- The 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2010)
- Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010)
- 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2010)
- FOSS4G 2010
- Funding Opportunities
- 2010-09-30 European Commission, DG Energy: Better Policies and Instruments in Support of Eco-Innovation
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- Feedback and promotion of Jung-Hua Lin's work and the topic of mapping Internet availability geographically
- Public and private wireless Internet connectivity and physical access points and networking are geographically distributed and vary in spatial, temporal and other characteristics (including maximum bandwidth and availability). Access points are not necessarily fixed with the proliferation of mobile devices capable of relaying data and the patterns of availability are becoming increasingly dynamic. Requests for new data can be obtained from local caches and demanded from other parts and the external requests can bottleneck and local networks can become disconnected at times. In general, the reach of the Internet extends and local caching helps speed up data provision and organise data geographically.
- Contemporary metropolitan cities especially have seen a phenomenal increase in both the demand for and supply of wireless Internet access since the start of the 21st Century. Some basic level of Internet availability is becoming ubiquitous in the realms where many people live their lives and continual connection is becoming increasingly common, demanded and expected. Some of the provision is unsecured and freely available and some is less openly available or restricted in some way to specific users.
- My friend Jung-Hua Lin has been making the mapping of wireless connectivity into art as part of a Philosophy doctorate while based at the university of Leeds. I have read and provided feedback on a draft of the thesis after I got introduced to this work following an early stage presentation. Read more about Jung-Hua's work
- Completed ESRC/JISC Economic and Social Data Service Survey
- e-Science
- Provided feedback on JISC TechWatch Report Review on Data Mashups and the Future of Mapping
- e-ISS
- Read Rob Allan and Bill Lin's draft report on Shibboleth and e-Infrastructure and provided feedback
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- Completed survey on preserving geospatial data
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- Teaching
- Masters Dissertation Mentoring Meeting with Emmanuel Avula
- Coastal Flood Risk Assessment
- Focus on developing a synoptic framework or tool for mitigation strategies to alleviate risk
- Many types of risk
- Spatial extent, intensity and distribution of problems, frequency etc...
- Costs are human, environmental and economic; direct and indirect...
- Concieve a budget for alleviating risk... How to distribute this to local authorities appropriately (based on risk)?
- Prioritising action for flood defence and disaster planning.
- Without data, make assumptions and run with randomisation to estimate outcomes under different scenarios
- The hope is that the existence of estimates will draw notice and criticism and hopefully better data and model components that feed the effort...
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Adjusting Fertility rate for mortality rate
- Fertility rate for each age is given by the number of live births per year
- Miscarriage rates are proportional to the number of pregnancies
- Pregnancy rate is needed which is higher than the fertility rate to allow for miscarriages...
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility
- Modifying Demographic model so that gender of unborns is determined at conception not at birth and starting accomodation for multiple baby births
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- Started JISC TechWatch Report Review on Data Mashups and the Future of Mapping
- e-Science
- Introduction to P-Grade Seminar lead by Shiv Kaushal
- GENESIS
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- MASS Meeting
- Andy Evans, Holly, me
- Gordon Mitchell seminar and work on large scale agent simulation for sustainable development and reaching 2020 Carbon budget targets...
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- Seminar
- Growing Cities Sustainably: Does urban form matter
- Gordon Mitchell
- Abstract
- The paradigm of city planning over the last few decades has been to promote the 'Compact city', interpreted as a dense development in terms of dwellings per unit area, with mixed residential and non-residential uses reducing the need to travel over long distances. This paradigm is a reaction against sprawling development induced by the near universal use of private cars. The claims that this form of city development will make them more sustainable have been debated for some time, but without conclusive evidence as to the environmental, social and economic impacts. This presentation reports on the recently completed EPSRC SUE SOLUTIONS study that investigated the role that alternative urban forms can, or cannot, play in making urban regions more sustainable. The study used econometric models to represent the behaviour of people within interacting markets for land and transport. The outcomes of alternative city forms were then analysed against a set of indicators which measures economic efficiency (e.g. cost of production), social impact (e.g. crowding, equity), resource use (e.g. land, energy) and environmental impact (e.g. emissions, surface sealing). The main conclusion is that under high growth pressure, alternative urban forms offer relatively little potential in terms of their contribution to city-region sustainability. Subsequent work recognises that urban form can promote or constrain implementation of new technologies, and is investigating the potential of form-technology combinations in promoting urban sustainability.
- Notes
- Massive growth in China and other large countries with a increasing populations and with urbanisation trends
- We are moving from 1 in 3 to 2 in 3 people living in urban areas worldwide
- Global population is also increasing massively
- 3 Options for growth:
- Planned Expansion
- e.g. Along transport corridoors and with New Towns
- Compaction
- Dispersal
- Employment to dwellings ratio
- PTAL Map
- SMARTNET
- There are Big Difference between options
- But not in terms of total% built area
- Compaction is probably the worst in terms of flooding risk
- What kind of buildings to build?
- Using buildings to also collect water and energy
- Software for creating cool spider diagrams is open source :-)
- Roofs with both solar pannels and greened with plants have a synergistic effect in the summer where evapotranspiration from the plants cools the pannels making them more efficient and the pannels shade the roof helping to prevent it drying out.
- "Quality of life" is now commonly called "well being"
- Conclusions
- Road usage charging (RUC) is likely to have more of an impact than the nature of expansion on the total amount of transport and related pollution...
- Much work needed to improve Strategic Appraisal, but there are concerns about producing an obsession about evidence
- Feedback/Discussion
- Is regional planning helping?
- Most of the buildings we have now in the UK we will still have in a generation...
- How to meet targets for greenhouse gas reduction?
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- Interdiciplinary project idea
- Mapping Latin-America
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_america
- "...primarily spoken..." very demographic!
- The map therein drawn it seems on a national resolution, I wonder what the map would look like drawn with higher resolution units and if indeed this is possible with existing data...
- Many static maps if the change over time is considered...
- I wonder if Ben Bollig or colleagues would be interested in research on this...
- It could be a student project well suited to someone joint honours with geography and spanish perhaps...
- Teaching
- Masters Dissertation Supervision meeting with Nawaf Alotaibi
- e-Science
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