Wilson Center Hosts D.C. Launch and Webcast of UNEP’s One Planet, Many People

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Source: Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change & Security Project
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Posted on: Jun 13, 2005 @ 9:04 pm

Rapid Urbanization, Shrimp Farming, and Forest Loss Highlighted in Atlas;
Wilson Center Hosts D.C. Launch and Webcast of UNEP’s One Planet, Many People

WASHINGTON— Using a collection of spectacular “Before and After” satellite images for 80 sites around the world, the United Nations Environment Programme’s One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment documents the dramatic and, in some cases, damaging changes sweeping the earth. The huge growth of greenhouses in southern Spain, the rapid rise of shrimp farming in Asia and Latin America, and the emergence of a giant peninsula at the mouth of the Yellow River are among the curious and surprising changes seen from space. They accompany images of rainforest deforestation in Paraguay and Brazil, rapid oil and gas development in Wyoming, forest fires across sub-Saharan Africa, and the retreat of glaciers and ice in polar and mountain areas. The atlas, produced in collaboration with organizations including the United States Geological Survey and NASA, also shows the explosive growth of the world’s major cities, such as Beijing, Dhaka, Dehli, Las Vegas, Miami, and Santiago.

***Webcast LIVE at www.wilsoncenter.org***

· More highlights: http://www.na.unep.net/OnePlanetMany...essrelease.php
· Download the atlas: http://www.na.unep.net/OnePlanetMany...asDownload.php
· Download posters: http://www.na.unep.net/OnePlanetMany...erDownload.php
· Download high-res images: ftp://edclxs25.cr.usgs.gov/UNEP/erns...ighResSamples/

What: One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

Who:
John Turner, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Steve Lonergan, Director UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)
Brennan VanDyke, Director, UNEP Regional Office for North America
Ashbindu Singh, Regional Coordinator, UNEP DEWA-North America
John R. Townshend, Chairman, Department of Geography, Univ. of Maryland
James A. Sturdevant, Deputy Chief, USGS National Center
Jay W. Feuquay, Remote Sensing Program Manager, USGS National Center
Woody Turner, Program Scientist, NASA Office of Earth Science

When: Wednesday June 15, 2005, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Where: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 6th Floor Auditorium
The Wilson Center is located in the Ronald Reagan Building at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. The Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue.

Media planning to cover the event should contact Sharon McCarter at 202-691-4016 or at McCarterS@si.edu.